Re: In NZ, guns don't kill people, the government does

In article <1180631577.390174.117260@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
dan_mouse@xxxxxxxxxxx says...
She should have paid her bill.
Only she knew that her life depended on her electric power. The
electric company had no way of knowing that there was a woman on life
support in the home.
Did she call the electric company and explain her situation? Probably
not.

Are you suggesting that the electric company should go into every home
before they cut power to make sure that no one inside is on life
support.
If you don't pay your bill, you don't get free electricity.

This is indeed sad, and it is a pity that the woman died, but blaming
the electric company for *murder* is like blaming McDonalds for not
bringing free hamburgers to the homeless man who starves under an
overpass, or maybe the local hardware store is an accomplice in the
murder because they didn't come hook up a generator to her house when
she needed it most.

Take some personal responsibility, and stop blaming the government, or
the "big bad corporation" every time something goes wrong.

-Dan



I knew some jackoff would say EXACTLY what you did.
They did know she was on life support.
She couldn't pay her bill because she was ill, and on life support, DUH!
Read the full story and then mouth off.



WELLINGTON, New Zealand - A 44-year-old woman who needed an electric
oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her
home because of an unpaid bill, her family claimed Wednesday.
Police said they had launched an investigation into Folole Muliaga=3Fs
death, which happened within two hours of state-owned company Mercury
Energy cutting power to her house Tuesday.
Mercury Energy=3Fs general manager, James Moulder, said the company was
devastated by the woman=3Fs death and was conducting its own investigation
to determine what happened. He refused to say how much money Muliaga had
owed the company.
Muliaga, a schoolteacher with four children between the ages of 5 and
20, had been off work since February with an illness.
A Mercury Energy representative arrived on Tuesday at her home in the
northern city of Auckland to disconnect the electricity, said Brenden
Sheehan, Muliaga=3Fs nephew-in-law.
=3FThen he cut the power off=3F
Sheehan said both Muliaga and her son told the technician she was
dependent on the oxygen machine to stay alive and invited him into the
house to see it. =3FThen he cut the power off,=3F Sheehan told The
Associated Press.
Muliaga began having difficulty breathing, became faint and then
collapsed, he said. Paramedics were unable to revive her, and she was
pronounced dead within two hours of the power being cut.
Moulder expressed his =3Fdeep condolences=3F to the family, and said the
company was checking reports that it had been warned Muliaga needed
power for the oxygen machine. The company restored electricity to the
house on Wednesday after learning of her death.
Sheehan said the family=3Fs bills would prove Muliaga was trying to pay
the account, and received no warning the power would be shut off. He
declined to say how much she owed.
State Owned Enterprises Minister Trevor Mallard said there were reports
the family had been warned about the overdue account.
=3FThe correct authority to investigate this and sort out the facts is the
police,=3F Mallard said, adding the government would expect =3Ffull
accountability=3F if the company was found to be culpable.

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