Power cut off, woman dies

[robzilla]

Might aswell throw my two cents in...

I kind of missed the start of this (I'm useless with keeping up on current affairs), so when i first saw the story on the news i was like 'Bastard power company KILLED that poor sick woman!'

But the more i watched i realized the news was only presenting one side of the news story, with usually full heartfelt accounts fro the 'victims', and tiny soundbites from the power co. etc.

I ESPECIALLY liked the interview with the family's lawyer, THAT was a biased piece of journalism - the way the news story made us blatantly cheer for the under dog small time lawyer vs. huge law firm (David vs. evil evil Goliath), with out any sort of input from the other side. But then thats how 'news' works i guess? (show the people what they want!)


OK theres my point -

Fuck the news


As for the whole saga (I bet they're gonna call it "POWERgate" or something equally inane) I'll see what happpens.

[Beemer]

COULD HAVE FOOLED ME...THEY SEEM VERY FLUENT IN ALL THE TV INTERVIEWS.

You missed two all-important letters out of that quote, Patrick.

"they seem very EFfluent in all the TV interviews" - in other words, they talked shit!

It's like most people for whom English is not their first language. If they like what you are saying, they understand you perfectly well. If they don't, that's when the "sorry, no understand, no speak English" cuts in.

[Paul in NZ]

I think you are all missing an important point - go back to my earlier post and google the name - see which union he is involved with and ask why state funded broadcasting was so lame... The guy did a great PR jobbie on this.

[LilSel]

What difference would a few hours or days have made while matter was investigated........the family had made some payments to reduce debt and at end of day it was only $168......

THEY DID NOT PHONE MERCURY TILL 8PMK- AFTER SHE HAD DIED. HAD THEY CALLED WHEN THE DISCONNECTION OCCURED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RECONNECTED IMMEDIATLY

[LilSel]

Who's next - Telecom? What's the bet their phone had been disconnected too, so I guess Telecom is to blame somehow as well, because even if they had wanted to call for help, they wouldn't have been able to.

their phone was disconnected

[Patrick]

You missed two all-important letters out of that quote, Patrick.

"they seem very EFfluent in all the TV interviews" - in other words, they talked shit!

It's like most people for whom English is not their first language. If they like what you are saying, they understand you perfectly well. If they don't, that's when the "sorry, no understand, no speak English" cuts in.

Bwahahahahaha... get that on the streets too, no speekee engrish, but as you pull out the ticket book, it changes to perfect Queens English, "I say old chap, no possibility of a warning for my minor infraction, say what old chum?"

[LilSel]

In terms of whether the contractor should turn the juice off or not, my personal preference would be that they somehow move to remote switching to save the poor buggers from getting involved.

It is already been trialled in auckland

[MSTRS:Me]

Bwahahahahaha... get that on the streets too, no speekee engrish, but as you pull out the ticket book, it changes to perfect Queens English, "I say old chap, no possibility of a warning for my minor infraction, say what old chum?"

What? One where less than 5 people were killed??

[Patrick]

THEY DID NOT PHONE MERCURY TILL 8PMK- AFTER SHE HAD DIED. HAD THEY CALLED WHEN THE DISCONNECTION OCCURED IT WOULD HAVE BEEN RECONNECTED IMMEDIATLY

You're in for an infraction... Nya nya na nah nya...."

You typed in capitals!!! Got one for my post #212 above.........

[Patrick]

What? One where less than 5 people were killed??

No... you get turned in to a celebrity for that.....

He will be in "Dancing With the Stars" next...

[MSTRS:Me]

When does Dancing with Ropes start? I'd watch that one....

[Patrick]

When does Dancing with Ropes start? I'd watch that one....

Saddam trialled that.... was quite successful too...

[MSTRS:Me]

Saddam trialled that.... was quite successful too...

Missed that. Must have been out speeding and causing the destruction of civilisation as we know it. Will there be a re-run? Or perhaps you taped it?

[Patrick]

Taped it over my chicken porn...

[LilSel]

You're in for an infraction... Nya nya na nah nya...."

You typed in capitals!!! Got one for my post #212 above.........

opps... 1st for everything huh?