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25. There are multiple issues here

Sun Feb 22, 2026, 03:29 AM

8 hrs ago

homelessness, language barrier, the fact the person who called on their behalf was not with them so the call could be traced, the person who called said they were in a nearby park when they were actually in one of the hospital parking lots etc.

I am left wondering if it may have been a deliberate choice on their part. Had they parked literally anywhere else in the area around the hospital security and or the police would have found them. Our societies social safety nets are breaking under the pressure and it is only getting worse.

There is another huge storm that is going to impact the northeast in the next day or two and it is heartbreaking to know that there will be other deaths because being a vulnerable person in bad weather is too damn dangerous. This is not what a civilized society looks like.

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Woman, Disabled Son Die in Snow Covered Car After Trying to Reach Police [View all] ificandream 19 hrs ago OP

Unbelievably sad... hlthe2b 19 hrs ago #1

It is tragic. yellow dahlia 19 hrs ago #2

A bit more UpInArms 19 hrs ago #3

That's a miscommunication there. Igel 17 hrs ago #18

Just tragic UpInArms 16 hrs ago #19

+1 dalton99a 15 hrs ago #22

We would hope that dispatch would have called the caller back. LeftInTX 1 hr ago #31

unbelievably sad Kali 19 hrs ago #4

Wow SuzyandPuffpuff 19 hrs ago #5

It appears son died first. She was then trapped in the car for quite some time. LisaL 17 hrs ago #11

Horrifying and heartbreaking. pat_k 16 hrs ago #20

tragic Evolve Dammit 19 hrs ago #6

A kind and just society would not tolerate this. Borogove 18 hrs ago #7

So very sad. I suspect that if she was running the car Ilsa 18 hrs ago #8

I don't think they died from carbon monoxide poisoning. LisaL 18 hrs ago #10

A friend once told me Sweet Rosie Red 18 hrs ago #9

always talk to us, Sweet Rosie Red Skittles 17 hrs ago #13

But our billionaires are OK, right? Midnight Writer 17 hrs ago #12

Richest country in the world, my flabby old ass Warpy 17 hrs ago #14

That's exactly it - "the hoarding class," as you put it Alice Kramden 17 hrs ago #16

They had been living in the car for a year. surrealAmerican 17 hrs ago #15

America the Beautiful angrychair 17 hrs ago #17

" Their deaths were ruled weather-related" Javaman 15 hrs ago #21

There are multiple issues here NewEnglandAutumn 8 hrs ago #25

Oh, the call couldn't be traced. However, I wonder if dispatch called the caller back? LeftInTX 1 hr ago #30

Meanwhile, $45 billion for ICE concentration camps, $10 billion for Trump's Board of Peace, etc. etc. dalton99a 15 hrs ago #23

Sometimes I hate this country. n/t Greybnk48 15 hrs ago #24

A pox on our society for failing those in need once again. RockRaven 8 hrs ago #26

if the cops had found them, what would they have done? rampartd 8 hrs ago #27

K&R jfz9580m 4 hrs ago #28

75 years old and a disabled son? OldBaldy1701E 3 hrs ago #29