Posted on 01/27/2009 7:29:00 AM PST by library user
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‘The manager of Bay City said the limiter was tripped sometime between the time of installation and the discovery of the man’s body. ‘
Thanks you captain Obvious...(eyes rolling)
Just another reason to never own a home without a fireplace or wood burning stove.
Meanwhile illegal aliens get FREE everything.
Yep, there’s actually a user comment at the link where someone said exactly that.
Just said that not 5 seconds ago!
Well, he most likely just went to sleep. Still sad....Peloski agenda in effect,
Condolences to Marvin Schur’s family and friends. America’s finest.
93 years old and the city didn’t check on him personally about the unpaid bill?
You said — “But you would think he would have relatives come over and notice?”
He and his wife had no kids. And being at the age he was, he obviously didn’t have very many of his contemporaries around, either. So, I would think that there was simply no one to check on him that he had known in his life (as they were probably all dead and no subsequent generation, either)...
Neighbors and Friends are angry?
They care enough to get angry when the guy dies, but not enough to have checked on the guy once during the coldest weeks of the winter?
Beware of all local newspapers and local TV stations - their “journalists” are trained in sentimentalism, protest, and outrage, and their reporting shows it.
You said — “Just another reason to never own a home without a fireplace or wood burning stove.”
Not in this guy’s case. All that had to be done is walk outside and reset the tripped breaker. Nothing more was needed.
And in addition, the limiter did not limit the heating from the furnace for the house. That was included in there and he could have had all the heat he wanted, no problem...
“A neighbor who lives across the street from Schur is angered that the city didnt personally notify the elderly man about his utility situation.”
If they had personally talk to him, he would have paid the bill with the money that was laying on the table. Poor man probably did not have a way to get to the electric company with no immediate family and with the blizzard that was upon them.
If you put yourself in his place at 93 how many of your family will be around to help you. I know as I grow older I find my family is increasingly getting more distance. My relationship to my nieces and nephews are not at all like the ones I had with my uncles and Aunts no matter how much I have tried to develope the ties. Relationship and respect for family has changed and people care less. More evidence of the government taken over our personal lives. The let the government take care of you is the wave of the future. Shameful!
Thanks for the link. Didn’t see the other thread.
If you put yourself in his place at 93 how many of your family will be around to help you. I know as I grow older I find my family is increasingly getting more distance. My relationship to my nieces and nephews are not at all like the ones I had with my uncles and Aunts no matter how much I have tried to develope the ties. Relationship and respect for family has changed and people care less. More evidence of the government taken over our personal lives. The let the government take care of you is the wave of the future. Shameful!
You said — “93 years old and the city didnt check on him personally about the unpaid bill?”
Ummmm..., the way most FReepers want government out of their business, at the same time one can’t then be expecting the city to check on people and their every problems, old or not, and “take care of them” (i.e., the “nanny state”).
It’s up to *people* themselves — and the people around them and the neighbors and the friends and the relatives. It’s not up to the government to do this kind of thing.
No offense, but what does this have to do with the story? Would it have been any less tragic had he not been a veteran?
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