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http://www.startribune.com/local/west/15802612.html
Drinking blamed in teen's death in Bloomington pool
Night clerk Usman Mian was worried about a teenage guest sitting alone in the hotel pool after midnight Tuesday.
The boy, 17-year-old Joe Viereck, appeared to be drunk, and Mian suggested several times that he rejoin the four friends who had returned to their rooms at the Days Inn on Normandale Boulevard in Bloomington.
Mian kept an eye on him as best he could. But the desk phone started ringing and he got busy. When he looked up 30 minutes later, Viereck wasn't there. He rushed to the pool and saw him at the bottom of the deep end.
Despite the efforts of rescue workers, Viereck was dead. The teen and two classmates, both also 17, were returning to Sioux Falls, S.D., after a college visit to Phoenix, but their connecting flight was canceled because of maintenance problems.
Northwest Airlines had given the three vouchers to stay overnight. Two female friends, college students from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, had joined them for the evening.
Notice how NWA is trying to distance themselves from the tragedy...
Northwest spokesman Dean Breest said Viereck and his friends were not registered as unaccompanied minors, something that is optional for 17-year-olds. Had they been so registered, he said, the airline would have contacted their parents and made arrangements for supervised accommodations.
You would think that someone from NW would have gone the extra mile and somehow contacted their families. If I was a parent of the deceased, I would be seeking legal representation ASAP.
Drinking blamed in teen's death in Bloomington pool
Night clerk Usman Mian was worried about a teenage guest sitting alone in the hotel pool after midnight Tuesday.
The boy, 17-year-old Joe Viereck, appeared to be drunk, and Mian suggested several times that he rejoin the four friends who had returned to their rooms at the Days Inn on Normandale Boulevard in Bloomington.
Mian kept an eye on him as best he could. But the desk phone started ringing and he got busy. When he looked up 30 minutes later, Viereck wasn't there. He rushed to the pool and saw him at the bottom of the deep end.
Despite the efforts of rescue workers, Viereck was dead. The teen and two classmates, both also 17, were returning to Sioux Falls, S.D., after a college visit to Phoenix, but their connecting flight was canceled because of maintenance problems.
Northwest Airlines had given the three vouchers to stay overnight. Two female friends, college students from the College of St. Benedict in St. Joseph, had joined them for the evening.
Notice how NWA is trying to distance themselves from the tragedy...
Northwest spokesman Dean Breest said Viereck and his friends were not registered as unaccompanied minors, something that is optional for 17-year-olds. Had they been so registered, he said, the airline would have contacted their parents and made arrangements for supervised accommodations.
You would think that someone from NW would have gone the extra mile and somehow contacted their families. If I was a parent of the deceased, I would be seeking legal representation ASAP.
