Out of the frying pan and into the fire! (Chilean Miner Busted)

[ScotH]

Trapped Miner Finds Himself in Another Tight Spot After Wife Meets Mistress at Vigil

"One of the trapped Chilean miners is dreading his rescue after his wife met his secret mistress at the entrance to the San Jose mine, The Sun reported Thursday.

Yonni Barrios' wife, Marta Salinas, and Barrios' lover, Susana Valenzuela, were both holding vigils for him outside the mine."

Source:
http://www.foxnews.com/world/2010/09/02/trapped-miner-tight-spot-rescued-wife-meets-mistress-vigil/#



"Yogurt and cereal for breakfast, chicken sandwiches for lunch and jam sandwiches for dinner. They each have tea and five liters of water daily."


That sounds pretty good, all things considered.

 

[featherbaby]

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OH MY!!!!!!! That will be a homecoming he'll never forget!

 

[turney31]

My Dh showed me that ... He said "He might want to stay down there."

 

[ScotH]

Kind of sounds like a stunt for some people to make money off of all the publicity, but if true it wouldn't surprise me at all.

 

[welsummerchicks]

I would think that about 30% of the miners would be in the same fix, given statistics.

I also doubt it's really true, I mean, that someone from that country would willingly air their dirty laundry to the reporters, unless they really needed the money, which is definitely a possibility. It's also possible the wife was very angry and said something she wouldn't usually broadcast, just due to the heat of the moment. But on the other hand, talk like that gets started all the time.

We get a very, very distorted take on the news.

It's all meant to be newsworthy rather than accurate or... appropriate, informative, life affirming, positive. Newsworthy means playing on the things we fear or suspicion, our hates and emotions. It's meant to make people feel helpless, angry and bitter, rather than empower them.

My own focus on the problem is relief that the miners are surviving, anger that they are still down there, the mining company short cuts that got them in that fix, the high percentage of safety violations in the mining industry in general, the company's track record of previous violations, the mine's lack of financial means to pay to get them drilled out, and the freezing of an amount of company assets that is exactly the amount it would cost to drill them out.

Also of interest is what they were mining, how mining damages the environment, and what safer, more environmentally intelligent means there are of meeting our needs for minerals.