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Originally Posted by Munchkin03
Did anyone hear that his family finally surfaced, and are angry at the utility company? One of his nephews is all, "we hadn't spoken in a year."  He also observed that his uncle had his bill envelopes filled with the correct amount of cash for each bill. |
It makes it especially heartbreaking to me to know he had the money. ETA: I'm not sure why knowing that it was simply his mental faculties slipping is sadder to me, but it is. This was so preventable on so many different levels.
There's no way that it's the power companies fault in my mind since they aren't in the social services business and it would be inappropriate to expect them to come to people's homes to collect bills every month. Someone should have helped this guy if not the nephew, someone in the community.
If it turns out he really did have 600,000 in savings and the nephew gets it. . . .argh.