...but it's considered far more palatable than the truth.
Firefighters have accused the Government of covering up the death of a seven-year-old schoolboy killed by toxic poisoning when his home was flooded.
Crews who recovered the body of tragic Zane Gbangbola have also joined a growing chorus of MPs and legal experts demanding an independent inquiry.
Yes, it's
this long running saga.
Lee Belsten, secretary of the Fire Brigades Union in Surrey, said: ‘It was our firefighters who detected hydrogen cyanide at the property and our members believe that the verdict of the coroner was highly questionable. We will expose the true events and hold to account those individuals and authorities who we believe lied and withheld crucial evidence.’
And after that, you'll find Judge Crater, Shergar, and the real killer of OJ Simpson's ex-wife...?
4 comments:
I remember this case. I agree with the Coroner that this tragic death was more than likely down to the parent's stupidity than any other cause. I'm shocked at a firebrigade type latching into this particular conspiracy theory. The Fire Brigade Union man said that Cyanide was detected but doesn't speak of any particular concentration that was found. Was there really Cyanide there or was it a case of faulty FB instrumentation?
I'm gobsmacked at the stupidity of the parent's running an internal combustion engine in an enclosed environment. Learning about the dangers of the gasses that come from an exhaust and what they can do in an enclosed space is basic scientific common sense. My father was a motor engineer and I can remember being warned about exhaust gasses as a child.
My charitable explanation is that the parents cannot come to terms with the outcome of their negligence and have suppressed dealing with the feelings of guilt that must come with this realisation in favour of finding someone else to blame. The less charitable explanation is that something terrible has happened that isn't the state's fault but they are blaming the state anyway as by doing this they could be in line for some of the state's, or rather our, money being hosed their way.
"I'm gobsmacked at the stupidity of the parent's running an internal combustion engine in an enclosed environment. "
I'm not. People today have no idea how things work, everything is just a black box that does a job when you press some buttons. If it stops working they throw it away and buy a new one. The concept of knowing how something works so you can fix it (and avoid killing yourself as in this case) is alien to them. It just no longer exists in people under the age of about 40.
Sobers, I've also noticed the growth in numbers of those who if something breaks they just throw it away but surely anybody with half a brain can see fumes coming out of the exhaust of a pump and think 'that's not likely to be healthy'. It does seem to be an age thing which is why my wife and I are trying to make sure that our son Laughing Boy knows how things work and luckily he's the type of child who asks how things work. My wife is going to tell him how to run a library and organise information and I will teach him how to make things and recycle 'useful rubbish' into useful things.
"I'm shocked at a firebrigade type latching into this particular conspiracy theory. "
Don't be. That long march through the institutions has worked so very, very well. They are now everywhere.
"People today have no idea how things work, everything is just a black box that does a job when you press some buttons."
Guilty as charged! But I at least read the manual!
"It does seem to be an age thing ..."
Of course it is. It's how we've reached this age, after all! :D
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