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It looks like that is what they are going to do.

Shameful.

But I feel sympathy for this man. I can’t bring myself to be uncharitable without knowing more about this...many of us know you can’t run an internal combustion engine indoors, but as others postulate, the man may not have much education or commonsense.

And I wouldn’t castigate him for having seven kids. I had six kids in my family, and granted, my parents probably wouldn’t have had us if they hadn’t been able to provide for us, but we we don’t know this guy’s story.

There is a lot we don’t know about this guy, and the story does seem strange. How can you buy a generator if you can’t pay your electric bill? It may have been hot, or someone might have sold it to him cheap or even bartered for it. For all we know, he might have thought he could catch a few winks with the electric heaters running and get everyone to bed, but fell sound asleep and didn’t wake up, dooming them all.

I read a little more about him, and yes...he was problematic. He had altercations with his ex-wife that ended up with him doing time in jail for assault and battery, and apparently had an anger problem. That is a couple of pretty grievous negatives.

But the wife who he divorced either didn’t want the kids or he wanted them badly enough to fight for him, and by all accounts he was trying to raise them. (makes one wonder what kinds of things he and his ex-wife fought about) I have to give the guy a degree of respect.

He may not have been the sharpest knife in the drawer if he was running a generator in his house, but in a community where it is rare for men to care for their kids, rarer still to marry, and rarer still to want to raise them as a father...I just have to think that community could use more men like him.