89 yr. old leaves apartment for first time in 8 years-elevator fixed

[underpants]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=573&ncid=757&e=1&u=/nm/20040618/od_nm/trinidad_elevator_dc

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (Reuters) - A frail 89-year-old Trinidadian man left his apartment for the first time in eight years this week after broken elevators in the government-owned building were finally replaced.



Local newspapers reported Thursday that Randolph Hall had been forced to stay in his eighth-floor apartment for years because he did not have the strength to go up and down so many flights of stairs.

[Wickerman]

1. see, see a failure of socialism

Had that been an apartment in a capitalistic country, they would have razed it years ago - once it stopped being profitable.

[bleedingheart]

2. and he would have been living under a bridge and getting all

the fresh air he needed....see the positives of capitalism...(sarcasm off)...