Notice the part where she said she stopped paying rent because she thought she was going to die, and later when she was offered money, said she didn’t need it and would likely give away the donations and just wanted her bible…
Hmmm.
Always look up the stories behind the memes. They might not really be about what you think they are.
Notice the part where she said she stopped paying rent because she thought she was going to die, and later when she was offered money, said she didn’t need it and would likely give away the donations and just wanted her bible…
And the full thing with context is this:
Karen Twinem, with National Church Residences, which owns the Franklin House where Fitzgerald has lived since April 2011, said Fitzgerald told the staff she held back rent for the past three months because she thought she was going to die soon.
Fitzgerald denied that claim, telling News 6 that she tried to pay October rent but was denied.
So your provided context is misleading and it shows that most people trusted you and didn’t read the article for themselves.
Notice the part where she said she stopped paying rent because she thought she was going to die, and later when she was offered money, said she didn’t need it and would likely give away the donations and just wanted her bible…
Damn you know what, in that case she totally deserved it.
Like who fucking cares? Why do you even think that’s something important to mention?
Read the article, the guy you replied to cut context, the care facility said she told them that, but she claims she tried to pay rent but couldn’t and that she never said that.
There’s a bunch of articles with conflicting details. It does look like the facility tried a few different avenues before evicting her, but I haven’t seen a report mentioning involvement from a healthcare professional trained to handle situations like this. Every article does make it sound like that’s exactly what she needed though. It’s also entirely possible that when she said she thought she was going to die soon, she was referring to the potential mold issue she had been complaining about. I don’t think the article you linked mentions anything about that. I could be wrong though since I read a few.
There’s also this quote from another article:
Ms Fitzgerald, who was interviewed in jail while dressed in an orange jumpsuit, tearfully refuted the claims. Asked about why she would not pay the rent, the woman, who was handcuffed and appeared to have bruises up her arms, said of a housing facility employee: “She wouldn’t take it, that woman blamed me for the mould.”
She added: “I paid my September rent and when she decided she was going to put me out, she wouldn’t accept any rent after that.”
The truth is probably somewhere between the two accounts. But honestly, that’s beside the point. Even if the living facility’s version was completely accurate, a 93 year old woman should not have ended up bruised and dragged out of her home by police just because she withheld rent for two months and refused to follow an order to vacate. Full stop.
Oh, I don’t disagree with you on that. She did apparently find permanent housing and I looked all over the place for later news on her like an obit or anything, actually… so I can only assume she’s still kicking somewhere and is now 100.
More to that story… Turns out charges were dropped within days.
https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2017/12/19/charge-dropped-against-94-year-old-woman-arrested-for-not-paying-rent/
Notice the part where she said she stopped paying rent because she thought she was going to die, and later when she was offered money, said she didn’t need it and would likely give away the donations and just wanted her bible…
Hmmm.
Always look up the stories behind the memes. They might not really be about what you think they are.
And the full thing with context is this:
So your provided context is misleading and it shows that most people trusted you and didn’t read the article for themselves.
Damn you know what, in that case she totally deserved it.
Like who fucking cares? Why do you even think that’s something important to mention?
The guy you responded too was misleading, the full quote in his own article paints a completely different story.
It means the disaster was self imposed, not forced by the system.
Read the article, the guy you replied to cut context, the care facility said she told them that, but she claims she tried to pay rent but couldn’t and that she never said that.
Like a 94 old person isn’t quite there any more and doesn’t know how to deal with labyrinthine bureaucratic processes?
There’s a bunch of articles with conflicting details. It does look like the facility tried a few different avenues before evicting her, but I haven’t seen a report mentioning involvement from a healthcare professional trained to handle situations like this. Every article does make it sound like that’s exactly what she needed though. It’s also entirely possible that when she said she thought she was going to die soon, she was referring to the potential mold issue she had been complaining about. I don’t think the article you linked mentions anything about that. I could be wrong though since I read a few.
There’s also this quote from another article:
The truth is probably somewhere between the two accounts. But honestly, that’s beside the point. Even if the living facility’s version was completely accurate, a 93 year old woman should not have ended up bruised and dragged out of her home by police just because she withheld rent for two months and refused to follow an order to vacate. Full stop.
Oh, I don’t disagree with you on that. She did apparently find permanent housing and I looked all over the place for later news on her like an obit or anything, actually… so I can only assume she’s still kicking somewhere and is now 100.
You added absolutely nothing of relevance to the story.
People who aren’t around 90 year olds expect they are as keen as the 90 year olds on TV.
At 90 there is always some dementia. He is treating this like it is some thought out plan instead of confusion.
I’ve known multiple 90+ year olds that were cognitively very capable, not at their peak certainly but to say everyone gets dementia is wrong.
Dementia is not just a small cognitive decline.
She said “Bible” so she’s religious, ergo bad.
Throw her to the wolves!
They must be catering to that huge “atheist but not socialist” demographic on Lemmy.
Secular libertarians somehow manage to be worse than religious ones