More victimization of the poor -- outrageous!

[theHandpuppet]

http://news.enquirer.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060802/EDIT01/608020314/1090/EDIT

Ky. mayor a stranger to spirit of law

The plotline sounds like an improbable melodrama: Insensitive small-town mayor shuts off water to a trailer park full of poor kids, elderly adults and disabled during a heat emergency. But it's been all too real for about 100 residents at South Park Trailer Park outside Falmouth, off U.S. 27 in Pendleton County.

Mayor Gene Flaugher refused for days to turn the water back on unless new owner Larry Ritter paid, in full, the city water bill from previous owners. Ritter, a semi-retired lumber company owner, offered to put money in escrow while settling the dispute, but Flaugher wouldn't relent. Ritter had to file in court for a temporary injunction, and because of his friendship with a local judge, the case was bounced to Kenton County Circuit Court Judge Patricia Summe. Tuesday, Summe issued the order to turn water back on and told Flaugher and Ritter to settle the dispute.

It's shameful that residents have been put at risk in this case. What if one suffered a medical emergency?

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[Orrex]

1. That'll teach 'em to be poor in Bush's double-plus-strong economy

They knew that they'd be thirsty--they should have had the foresight to become wealthy before the heatwave hit.

[theHandpuppet]

3. Too bad these folks don't have money for a lawyer

This sure smells like lawsuit to me!

[elehhhhna]

2. Favelas in Kentucky. Wow.