Detroit family dead after "glitch" led to power shut-off
Falling behind in your bills can be deadly, as the tragic story of a Detroit family shows.
I used to really like Raw Story until I noticed a pattern of bait and switch with regard to their headlines. Frequently I see articles like the one above which may lead someone to believe that the power being shut off killed this family. That an evil corporation is responsible for the deaths.
Reading a bit further into the article, though, you come across the REAL reason for the death:
Vaughn Reed, 46, and his three children, Markeisha, 17, DeMarco, 12, and DeMarte, six, died in the early morning hours of Friday from carbon monoxide emitted by a generator in the basement of the family’s two-story home on Detroit’s west side.
So, this family died because the father took a gas powered generator, which I'm sure had "DO NOT USE INDOORS.", "DO NOT USE IN A CONFINED SPACE" stamped all over it and put it in his basement. He then sealed the windows and ran the generator.
On Thursday night, the family had sealed all the windows to run the air conditioning, the Detroit Free Press reports. By the time the house began to fill with carbon monoxide at around 3 a.m., it was too late.
So basically he duplicated what a suicide does when he runs a hose from his tailpipe into his drivers window and seals himself inside. How is this the fault of the power company? This is blatant stupidity, the inability to read standard warning labels and lack of 6th grade science knowledge.
Is it sad? Yes, very sad, especially that the children died. Is it the fault of the power company? Oh HELL no! So how about it Raw Story? Would you care to start labeling your headlines accurately or is it all about manufactured drama?
Pretty lame.
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