Posted on 07/16/2023 7:32:25 AM PDT by NohSpinZone
The father of Christine Chavez, 27, of Modesto, believes her death was preventable.
Christopher Chavez said that while his daughter often came by his home, his daughter was homeless and often slept outside during the daytime.
A spokesperson for the Modesto Police Department said that on Saturday around noon, a landscaper was cutting the grass at Beard Brook Park on a tractor with a pull behind mower when he saw a body in the grass that he had already passed through.
“We’re going to try everything to get justice,” Christopher said.
Gallo acquired the Beard Brook Park —where the body was — property on July 7.
A spokesperson for the company said a landscaping contractor was hired to perform weed abatement and fire prevention services. She called the incident an accident and said the “individual who was not visible and laying in a tall, weeded area.”
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Um, it’s not chiggers, it’s “chegroes.”
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bwahaha!
“Funny though how the family comes out of the woodwork with concerns for their homeless relative after she’s gone.”
That’s probably way too harsh. Many families try everything and try it forever to get their loved ones off the street, get them into treatment or rehab, get them back to where they were as kids and teens. They spend lots of money trying to help them, but so often it is absolutely futile and hopeless.
I have no way of knowing, but I believe this family did everything they could to save their daughter. The article says the daughter often went to the family home. You don’t do that if you are completely estranged.
“They dont care that shes homeless and sleeping on the grass but all of a sudden they care when she’s killed.”
Way, way too harsh. See my #83.
How could you possibly know they do not care? How do you know how many times they tried to save their daughter but she would not accept help?
Well then, they should understand that something like this was bound to happen and not blame (and get money from) the poor landscaper who now has to live with this.
You comment made me think of this scene in Yellowstone. Jimmy wakes up after sleeping on the ground at 6666 ranch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=91jcYC6by_8
OK, let’s reserve judgment until the lawsuits start happening. As I said earlier, the best thing that could happen is an insurance settlement that is put into a trust for this woman’s daughter.
Powdered boric acid.
Rub it into the bite where the chigger is.
Too risky to do so to kids.
Kills the chigger and the itching.
*Chiggers burrow under the skin, usually at a hair follicle.
Unlike others, I’m unwilling to condemn the father out of the box. Tons of parents try everything to rescue their derelict kids without success. That would be my assumption, absent more information. But this whole “get justice for so and so” trope is getting old
I cannot disagree with that.
Too many people see these tragedies as a potential big payday. And that is immoral, too. If they win, it transfers the moral hazard and risk to all citizens paying taxes.
That’s what I was gonna to say. Along with ticks and fire ants.
I agree.
Excuse me, but you got it all wrong. Chiggers actually use their hind legs to borrow into your skin. That's why they are always at tight binding points of your clothing That's why they never touch your wife, because she doesn't wear tight clothing so chiggers don't have anything to press against. That's why painting the the red bump with fingernail polish stops the pain and itch. The nail polish suffocates them.
I grew up in Georgia and Alabama so I know all about these pests.
Something similar happened at Woodstock. A tractor ran over a girl in a sleeping bag.
I know a couple of people who don’t do drugs, but prefer to live homeless.
looking for some free cash, no one gave a sh## for years until she is dead now they come to her rescue
[I know a couple of people who don’t do drugs, but prefer to live homeless.]
Nail polish.
Back in the 60’s most women were too smart to buy clear nail polish.
My grandmother treated my chigger “bites” with whatever color she had and didn’t like.
Pretty odd to have red nail polish dotted on your private areas. It stopped the itching for a while. If you could package and target drop chiggers on an enemy force they would surrender..
One of the frustrations is that the bites don’t all appear at once. Tends to be over 24-48 hours. Infuriating.
I’m game.
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