"Tumbleweed" wrote in message
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"Franz Heymann" wrote in message
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"Bob Hobden" wrote in message
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"Franz

Not so! The reason was simple forgetfulness associated with
advancing
age,
combined with an inhumane gas supply company.

Inhumane?

That benighted gas company never tried to visit those customers to find
out
if anything was wrong.
They did not even have the decency to let Social Services or anybody
know
that they had just committed two elderly people to death by hypothermia.
And don's sling that nonsense about data protection act at me.

Franz

Why would it know how old they were? I doubt my gas company knows how old
I
am, it doesnt even appear to know it also supplies me electricity.

The gas company should have the decency and common sense to visit *any*
household involved in the possibility of a disconnection.

It might not actually be a bad idea if the directors were to put,say, 90% of
thier annual personal income into a fund to cope with customers in difficult
circumstances. The fat cat money might then actually be used usefully.

Franz