FROZEN MAN
While searching the news, I found an article I was baffled by. A 93 year old man from Michigan was found froze to death, after his utility company put a limit on his useage of power and heat. Just four days after the company put the gauge on, he was found. The reason they put it on to begin with was he had an unpaid bill of $1,000, which in turn he left $60,000 to a local hospital. Ok, so I understand people not paying bills is not good for companies, but cutting down someones electricity in the winter time is uncalled for. I can't count the number of times my parents forgot to pay the electric, the phone, or the internet bill. There were countless numbers of times showering in the dark unable to call anyone. Never in the winter time did this sort of thing happen, I don't know how anyone could do such a thing. Luckly though they stated they are investingating something to make sure companies can't do that during the winter time.
PHELPS IS BYE BYE FOR 3 MONTHS
Michael Phelps happen to have a picture of himself with a marijuana pipe in his mouth. They are suspending him not necessarily because he broke the non-drug rule was violated but it is more of the disappointment he brought towards the whole world. He didn't deny the photo but did said he made a bad judgement call. Ok, so I know we all make bad calls, but if your in the lime light of the world and you just won 8 Olympic medals, I think I'd be really watching my behind. I mean that's what the world does to famous people, finds out your bad points, or your negative behaviors and BLOW them up infront of the world. It happens to all the famous people, over and over again. It's only 3 months he'll be back, but the fact he was an American icon, really dissapointed people. He'll get over it and people will forget about it, it's part of life for some people.
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I have to agree with you on shutting the poor man's heat off. I also have to wonder about the neighbors, but he may have been someone who stayed to himself. I know we keep an eye out for our neighbors. We especially have one neighbor, her children all live far away, we are close to. We have adopted each other and if her curtains aren't open by the time I go to work we know something may be wrong. Another neighbor left a light on in one of her rooms, which we happened to notice out of our dining room and also her garage light was on. We went over to check on her and not getting a response called her daughter who lives in town. We had to leave a message, but later were informed that the neighbor was out of town and accidently left the lights on. But, there were very appreciative that we were watching out for her. People need to take care of each other in this way so things like freezing to death or any number of other things don't happen. It only takes a few extra minutes to watch for these little signs.
ReplyDeleteThe Michael Phelps issue is a whole different story. I don't think he realizes how many kids probably idolize him and the example he just set was not good. So he gets a slap on the wrist for 3 months, so what. What message is this sending to our younger generation??