Power cut kills woman accidentally

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-p ... 703395.stm

wtf, that is murder, plain and simple. Or corporate (wo)manslaughter. They cant do that, if someone might die as a result they have a legal obligation to not be stupid.

That time the family should have used violence to stop the electricity from being shut off. How long would they be in jail for it, and how long will Muliaga be dead? They should have held the technician, blocked his path, anything, and let the chips fall where they may when the police were called.

I consider this to be first degree premeditated murder and it should not be plea bargained.

It's not quite so clear cut - If you look into it, you'll find a) the doctor-type person who issued her with the oxygen device made a statement that if she needed it to live, she would not have been allowed to leave the hospital, b) the family waited 2 hours to call an ambulance, and c) that if they had gotten a doctor to sign 1 single form, then showed it to the power company, they would not legally have been able to shut off power.

My guess is the woman, who was supposed to only use the oxygen device at night, started using it constantly and became dependant when she shouldnt have been. I'm also suspicious that the long delay before calling for help may be an attempt to get money from a lawsuit.

I was thinking that it was a little suspicious and I should have read the story more carefully. What family would allow this to happen without actually physically resisting? Also, why would they not have gone somewhere that there was electricity?

However, the technician should not have proceeded with the cutoff.

You're probably right that the technician shouldn't have done this. There may be good reasons why he did, but I've yet to see them. Overall it's just strange, and there seem to be a lot of gaps in what we currently know.

No more reprehensible than greedy pharmaceutical companies that refuse to let a generic version of a life-saving drug be produced so that it can save hundreds of thousands of lives in poor countries. And if I was the technician, frankly I might have done it too. For one thing, I'm sure he hears all kinds of excuses. The woman had two hours to go elsewhere to get power if it was that essential. She was at death's door anyway and the family is just looking for someone to blame.

There are a hundred things wrong with this story.

I don't know how the law is there but where I am the family could have filed papers from the doctor stating her condition which would have prevented this. You usually get plenty of notice before they do this sort of thing. That being said if I had been the technician I would have refused to turn it off and made my boss do it if he wanted it done

here is a story that is more in depth

Even if it's found that the energy acted in an unethical manner, the cut off is not the direct reason she died. Not to mention why she had breathing difficulties in the first place.

Idon't know what employment stats are in NZ but:
1)there were family members of working age that could have paid the bills
2)there were family members that didn't perform CPR, a basic skill that could have kept her alive while the paramedics came
3)they didn't even call the paramedics until she was dead


So, the younger children are left to believe their mother was victimized and murdered by a business. Disgusting.

You mean to tell me the family waited that long to call an ambulance because the woman said not to? Oh come on! If that had been my relative, I would've called someone regardless of her wishes. She probably wasn't of sound mind due to lack of oxygen so how could they have trusted her judgment? I think lack of common sense from this lady's family killed her more than the power company.