This is the most horrific thing I have seen in a long time and this the second time I have had to read about something like this. I work for a company that caused this to happen to another family in a different place using different fumigants but it brings me back to that time and I am weeping now.
I wept to my wife when I heard of my company’s malfeasance in their failure to ensure that nobody was harmed in that other place. I have since witnessed a top to bottom realignment of priorities in my workplace to focus on safety…too little, too late - they did crime then that to meet profit margins and they still hold that most dear despite lip service to “safety first”.
I’m so very sad that this happened again to another family and I hope that the perpetrators (most likely managers pushing production goals) pay a heavy price for their crime. (spoiler alert, at my company the bad guys were not properly punished and I am still salty about that).
Sucks to carry that - therapy can be very helpful if you’re open to it.
Not too open or else the fumes will get in.
Holy shit that’s some greed to not cancel their reservation while fumigating the next door room
The married couple returned to their room for the night but were found seriously ill the next day by their daughter. John Cooper, 69, was declared dead in the room, while his wife Susan, 63, died hours later in hospital.
Horrific.
Seriously.
Even if they weren’t harmed, if two rooms share a connecting door, you should definitely treat both at the same time.
5 years to get an independent coronor’s report, and still no word of any compensation.
Don’t travel to Egypt.
5 years to get an independent coronor’s report
I know coronors don’t work quickly, but taking five years, that just seems too weird to me.
IMO there’s something else going on that’s not obvious from the article.
They’re dead, I don’t think money will be much use
And what about their family? It’s not cheap to put loved ones to rest.
Really? Where I live government pays for the funeral. What fucked up country charges people for dying?
I’ll give you one guess
I think all of them do. If the state pays for it, at the very least they’re going to try and recover the cost from the deceased’s estate. If the estate has no value, then the state would probably cover the cost of a cremation but that’s it.
No, in countries where I lived social security simply pays for the funeral. There can be some edge cases where a person is uninsured and family has to pay but it’s very rare. In Poland family will simply get a fixed amount so they can pay a private funeral home. Funeral homes charge the same about that people get from the government, around $1000. In Spain the funeral homes are public and social security will pay for the service. There can be some extra costs for special services like a mass in church but basic costs are covered.
Jesus, I thought heat treating had become the norm for dealing with bed bugs?
Nah, the maintenance guys in my old apartment building a few years ago doused my unit and me with aerosolized chemicals. Fun times. I’m assuming it’s much cheaper than heat treating.
Heat treating is tricky since it involves getting the entire area heated up to around 55 degrees I believe. That includes anywhere they’re hiding, so it needs to be a consistent 55 degrees throughout. Usually there’s like these big tent structures and such involved.
It’s more effective than poison though, at a 100% lethality if you do it right.
Published 11:47 AM EST, Fri November 10, 2023
From the article…
in August 2018
Can anyone tell me why CNN is reporting on this today, when it happened in 2018?
Apparently the independent coroner’s report that the family ordered just came in
Yeah I saw that reason later on in this conversation as I was scrolling down and reading the comments.
Seems really really weird though that it took that long, it’s almost like there’s a story in there somewhere.
Why can’t we put companies in prison for shit like this?
No prisoners are big enough for those people.
