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Edited on Tue Apr-06-10 02:38 PM by ThomWV
Bunk is my next door neighbor, he lives about a half mile down the road. He is a coal miner, it is the only job he has ever had. His older brother is a coal miner and their Uncle Jack, who used to be my neighbor on the other side, was also a coal miner all his life. Bunks father retired from the nines and several of his nephews are mines. Bunk and his people literally live and breath coal.
This morning he drove by the house and stopped, we chatted for a few minutes and then I asked him, 'what do you think about the mine explosion?'. His response was almost instantaneous, he said 'the mine's managers ought to be put in jail'. It was a flat out statement of fact. I asked him why. One word answer, "Negligence". He said negligence killed those miners, nothing else. He said "it was an explosion, that means there wasn't proper ventilation, it is management's job to make sure there is adequate ventilation, and its clear they didn't do it because if they had there would not have been an explosion, and if they didn't do their job then it is their negligence that killed those men."
And I would not claim for one second to know anything about coal mining, but Bunk sure does. I think I'll take his word for it rather than all the dazzling nonsense the news will provide that in the end tells us this is an act of god or that somehow it just happened and no one was at fault. I hope you take Bunk's word for it too.
Edited to change the word Owners to Managers. It was managers who were at fault, the owern's involvement is unknown.
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