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Am I My Neighbor's Keeper?

This sad story involves people not accepting responsibility for their neighborhoods: Officials in central Michigan say a 93-year-old man who owed more than $1,000 in unpaid electric bills froze to death inside his home -- where the municipal power company had restricted his use of electricity. Neighbors and friends of Marvin Schur want answers as to how this could happen. "Now that we do know it was hypothermia, there's a whole bunch of feelings that I?ve got going through me," said Jim Herndon, a neighbor of Schur's. "There's anger, for the city and the electrical company."I have shoveled walkways for many old people in my lifetime.  When an elderly neighbor died years ago while shoveling his snow, I was haunted.  I should have been shoveling his snow...continue to full post

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on January 27, 2009 (boomark / email).