Today In The USA

Marvin E. Schur was 93-years-old when he froze to death in his own home in Bay City, Michigan.

His cold and lifeless body was found by a neighbor on January 17th.

So what did Ol’ Marvin do to deserve being left to die in the cold and dark?

Reportedly he did not pay his electric bill, or more than likely, could not pay his electric bill.

Bay City Manager Robert Belleman told the Associated Press today that Schur owed over $1,000 to Bay City Electric Light & Power which ultimately killed Marvin Schur when a workman for the city owned utility installed a “limiter”, a device to restrict the use of electricity at Schur’s Bay City home on January 13.

The “limiter” acts like a fuse and blows out like a fuse if electricity consumption rises past a pre-set level. If the device blows, power is not restored until the device is reset and apparently poor Mr. Schur either was not told how the device worked or did not understand.

Kanu Virani, Oakland County’s deputy chief medical examiner, performed the autopsy on Marvin Schur and said the man died “a slow, painful death”.

Virani went on to say, “It’s not easy to die from hypothermia without first realizing your fingers and toes feel like they’re burning.”

Dr Virani said today that Schur, who lived alone, died as a result of hypothermia and that the house was cold enough that ice had formed in the kitchen sink. “He was wearing a double layer of clothes, trying to stay warm”, according to Dr. Virani.

Neighbors said that when Schur’s body was found, there was ice on the inside of the windows of his home.

Bay City Manager Robert Belleman says that he didn’t know if anyone made personal contact with Schur to explain how the “limiter” device works.

And in an absolute perfect display of idiocy, Belleman also said he doesn’t believe the city did anything wrong.

Mr. Belleman, here’s a clue for you – when you kill a resident of your city by disabling their utility service in the dead of winter, you have done something wrong…

Read reports of this shameful incident at the following links:

93-year-old Bay City man froze to death indoors

Bay City man, 93, lost life trying to stay warm in home

Autopsy: Bay City man froze inside his home

Mike Nifong, the disgraced and disbarred former Durham, North Carolina District Attorney forever remembered for his legalistic rape of three innocent Duke lacrosse players and their families is whining about “the fundamental unfairness” of the North Carolina State Bar’s handling of his ethics case.

Nifong who not only should have been disbarred but also prosecuted is a fine one to be whining about “unfairness” when he himself elevated unfairness to an art form and practiced it to perfection.

Is there no bounds to the audacity of this hypocrite?

Anyhow, read what Nifong is whining about now at Nifong Complains About State Bar’s Handling of Ethics Case and just be thankful that you are not kin to this idiot who is lucky he isn’t doing twenty years in prison as the sex partner of Bubba Lovemuscle…

It’s been a long time coming but disgraced former prosecutor Mike Nifong has finally told the truth about the phony rape case he staged against three innocent Duke lacrosse players.

The truth?

Straight from Nifong’s mouth – There is no credible evidence that three Duke lacrosse players committed any of the crimes he accused them of more than a year ago.

Of course this sorry lying bastard knew that all along but only of recent with his chestnuts roasting over the fire of public disgrace has Nifong decided to come clean, admit the truth and apologize to those he victimized in a stupid effort to boost his political career.

If every there was a prosecutor that deserves to be charged, tried, convicted and stuffed into prison with those he prosecuted it is Mike Nifong but don’t expect the state of North Carolina to actually press felony charges against this criminal. He knows both too much and too many people to risk giving him the justice he so richly deserves.

Read it at Nifong: Offers Apology, Says No ‘Credible Evidence’ of Crime in Lacrosse Case and understand Mike Nifong is the poster boy for a corrupt and disgraced criminal justice system…