To the Editor:

This is in regard to the May 12, 2016 front-page story about the death of Justus Booze.

The second paragraph states that Mr. Booze “was dead, entangled in a wood chipper in the road in front of a luxury home on Guilderland’s Placid Drive.”

I question the use of the word “luxury.” Unless OSHA [Occupational Safety Health Administration] regulations prohibit the use of wood chippers in the vicinity of luxury homes, what is the journalistic relevance of using the word “luxury” to describe the home in the vicinity of the wood chipper in which Mr. Booze was killed?

It seems that there may have been more than journalism at work here.

David Riley

Albany

Editor’s note: What is the relevance of ‘luxury?’ To contrast the site of Justus Booze’s death wtih the life he lived — taking a one-day job for $60 to support his family.