By now many of you have heard this little tidbit. Consumer’s Energy, our gas and electric friend in Michigan, shut off a woman’s power for several hours because she failed to pay one single penny.
She paid well over a thousand dollars. But she was still a penny short. And the representative of Consumer’s Energy said, the rules are the rules. Tough luck.
Of course, she was able to find a penny. And return later. To get her power turned back on. Probably a penny cup at a nice mom and pop store. I’m only guessing here. Because if she would have looked for a penny at the Wal-Mart she would have probably gotten arrested for trespassing or something.
I’m a Consumers customer. If they need pennies so badly, I’m thinking I might just have to make a trip down to their offices once a month and start paying them in pennies. I think they would appreciate that if a bunch of us did it.
Joke. World is becoming a cruel joke.
on the Countdown “Worst Persons in the World” list, if that makes a difference…
Hell, if I’d been in that office, I would’ve stuck a penny in there myself…my desk drawer usually had the assorted odd change from when I ran up to the coffee shop for milk and a donut in the mid morning; I’d take a couple of dollars, but would be too lazy to stick the loose change back in my wallet…
I know a woman who’s fuel company started sending her bills to a different address, claiming that she submitted a change of address request. No such request was made. When she got in trouble with her bill because she hadn’t been getting them, nor paying what she didn’t know about, she was nearly evicted from her home because of it. I am currently trying to find an attorney to help her recoup all the late fees she was required to pay to the company, though it was their fault that her bills were sent somewhere else. Screwed up to say the least. We’ll screw you, then make you pay for it on top of everything.
Anyone out there know a civil attorney willing to give some free advice?
I’m currently in litigation over one of these poverty issue. Collections agency. It is absolutely ridiculous what has happened to our country. The new ethic is, “You are worth as much as you make.”
My mother taught me, over and over, “You are priceless.” Why have we foregone our humanity to voluntarily participate in a society entirely drive by profit?
Don’t know much about NY Civil Law. Find a poverty law center. And fight like hell. You have nothing left to lose (unless of course, you do). That’s my advice.
Thanks BJ. But the woman I am talking about is, ironically, in Michigan.
Give her my e-mail, I’ll at least advise her.
Are you sure? I know she’ll appreciate it. So do I.
Thanks a million.
Yeah. I write e-mail all the time. I can’t promise anything, but I’ll at least talk to her.