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other people I knew
of who suffered serious acidents while doing
service:
in the Kittredge building lobby, while premie
carpenters were redecorating the entry, there were
two horrendous accidents involving the elevator, in
which two different brothers waited for the doors
to open in the lobby so they could move materials
into the car, and each tme, the doors opened but
the car was not there, and they fell into the open
shaft. One of them touched the cable that fed the
power to the car and was hideously electrocuted
from the tips of his fingers that grasped the
cable, all the way to his feet, which were still
touching the threshold when he fell in and carried
the current to ground.He lived to tell about it in
401 later. He as in a coma for many days in the
burn unit. The other brother--Jack, I think, was
his name, did not get burned or a shock but he fell
to the bottom of the shaft and got hurt quite a
bit.
your raising this issue, and the replies so far,
make me think, among other things, that I never
signed no steenkin paper, releasing any part of
Maharaji's domain from liability! I never took the
ashram vows, but i did service anywhere i was asked
to. I worked in the Alive Kitchen and we had one
guy accidentally get his hand pulled into the
automatic vegetable chopper--that was no small
thing. i ran the Shelter after Amherst because I
was asked to, and damn straight if anything had
happened to me, I would have been wide open to
sue.
These idiots don't have the business sense to take
out an insurance policy for their workers, and use
some of that obscene income of Maharaji's, to pay
the premiums, to take care of premies who do
service at places like Amaroo or DECA or La Tierra
Del Amor, and head off the situation before it
happens. It's like becoming a mail order bride for
some skinflint lovelorn millionaire, and not
hashing out a prenuptial agreement, so that if he
dies or divorces, you discover you get nothing!
I suppose ever since the power 80's, tho, all the
affluent, worldly PWK's probably have their own
insurance policies, which they pay for with their
own incomes.
my, how the mighty have fallen. my, how the petty
have risen.
if EV and MJ have the alacrity to read this, let us
hope for humanitarian reasons, if not cynical ones,
that they have the presence of mind to go take out
such a policy before someone files a wrongful death
suit.
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