Wow this is not only funny but one hell of a activist initiative. If there is some sort of award for things like this then the activist group should win the award for sure.
(CNN) -- A Missouri-based coal company was the victim of a hoax Tuesday after activists set up a fake website saying the company would offer free, custom-branded inhalers to children.
A press release supposedly from Peabody Energy said it was creating a new public health initiative "designed to combat the stigma of asthma among American children." Under the so-called "Coal Cares" initiative, the false statement said, the inhaler actuators would be given to children living within 200 miles of a coal plant, along with coupons good toward purchase of asthma medication.
A very very long time ago I worked for the KW Dart Truck Company (a division of Kenworth Trucks) and we made very large trucks (about the size of your house) for the Peabody Coal Company. (And we made trucks for others. In fact we shipped trucks around the world.) I was a welder in the body shop. It was a good union (UAW) job.
That was when I lived in Kansas City (Missouri).
One of my first jobs was working for the Darby Corporation (Kansas City, Kansas) and we re-built railroad cars (coal haulers). It was a union job (Boilermakers) but it was not as good of a union job because as the company was always telling us “Kansas is a right to work state.” So we had a few accidents, this was before OSHA, like the time a guy fell and had both legs and an arm cut off by a train. But the company gave the guy a job as a time keeper! Harry Darby the owner of the company had been a Republican United States Senator. Another reason I do like Republicans.
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