Posted on 07/18/2023 7:31:22 AM PDT by Red Badger
A 27-year-old homeless woman was killed recently when a lawnmower ran over her while she was sleeping in a park in Modesto, California.
Christine Chavez was killed in Beard Brook Park on July 8, according to KXTV-TV.
“My mom had to pick up pieces of her. That’s not correct,” Randy Chavez, the victim’s brother, said, according to the Modesto Bee.
“We want ordinances to change so it doesn’t happen again. Regardless if they are homeless they are still people and should be treated the same as any other people,” he said.
The park had been public, and at one time was an authorized area for homeless people to sleep. It is now private land owned by the E.&J. Gallo Winery in a deal that was completed the day before Chavez was killed.
Gallo representative Krista Noonan said the winery hired a contractor “to perform weed abatement and fire prevention services.”
The statement described Chavez’s death as “an accident at approximately 12:00 p.m. involving the contractor’s tractor and an individual who was not visible and laying in a tall, weeded area.”
Sharon Bear, a representative of the Modesto Police Department, said a Grover Landscape Services employee was using a riding John Deere tractor with a pull-behind mower when the incident took place, according to KXTV.
The company issued a statement that said, “In a dry, overgrown area, our operator discovered the body of a woman impacted by the pull-behind mower.”
Dez Martinez, an advocate for the homeless who founded the group CEO & We Are Not Invisible said last week during a memorial service for Chavez that she was disgusted by what had taken place, saying that five days after Chavez was killed, the area was “still not cordoned off. It’s not taped off. There’s no one here to pick up the remaining parts that are still here.”
Martinez said homeless people sleep at high noon because it is safe.
“We have to stay up all night because it’s dangerous to sleep at night. You might be raped, stabbed, murdered,” she said. “When the daytime comes, it’s time to go to sleep, it’s broad daylight, there’s a lot of traffic, a lot of people, what’s going to happen to me?”
Christopher Chavez was angry over the way his daughter’s death has been treated, according to KYMA-TV.
“I know that, if you are driving a tractor, you can see even if…the small ropes. You see, I mean…one person. You will see one person in front of you,” Chavez said.
“I keep going because I need to. I, I, I’m looking for justice, and I’m going to, I’m going to be there until, until something happens.” Chavez added.
Martinez said the victim deserves to be remembered as a person, not an object, according to KCRA-TV.
“Just because people are unhoused, it doesn’t mean they don’t have family. It doesn’t mean they’re not somebody’s daughter or son,” Martinez said.
“She was a beautiful girl, beautiful young girl. She had a family that loved her, and, and, and for the trauma that they’re going to have to endure for the rest of their lives, this is, this is visions they will never get out of their head,” Martinez added, according to KYMA.
Ding! Nailed it.
"Which really makes me wonder why she was on the streets and not living with "loving" family."
Crazy and/or drugs will wear out a person's welcome in a hurry.
So, think with me here. These city "fathers" who are destroying Modesto by showing tolerance and compassion to dope addicts are letting them run wild throughout Modesto. Yet, the lifestyle the addicts lead leads to the risks enumerated above (viz. rape, murder, assault and getting chewed up by a brush hog).
Yeah, that doesn't sound all that "compassionate" to me. The city leaders are creating an environment that gets people killed.
I wonder if she was already dead ...
Good reason why she ‘never heard the mower’
Did they do an autopsy ???
Psalms 23:2 “He maketh me lie down in green pastures.”
They never foresaw the rotary pull-behind mower, or I’m sure they would have added a cautionary note.
How do you sleep through the racket a tractor and brush hog make?
Drugs
I did the same with my Ford 9n. The JD 318 was built in 1984, it has a front end loader and a 3pt hitch. It’s a tractor.
That’s it. Now you’ve gone Biblical.
Can Armowgeddon be far behind?
WWMD? What would Mowses Do?
He rode the Toro, after all.
One thing’s for certain, it’s no longer safe for David to be hiding in the field.
Abram had JD 318s to serve him. He owned the factory:
Genesis 14:14 And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.
(Dan’s Tractor is located in Battle Ground.)
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