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(Palm Beach Post) Florida You're gambling with fate if you abandon a 95-year-old dementia patient in your car while you hit the casino for a couple of hours   (palmbeachpost.com) divider line 17
More: Florida, Peter Schiff, grand larceny, Coconut Creek, initial appearances, Palm Beach County, Belle Sapstein  
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8 inches [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 02:13:36 AM
I would have brought her to the tables - Rain Man style.
 
miss diminutive
2012-02-21 02:18:07 AM
Did she at least roll the window down a bit?
 
untaken_name
2012-02-21 02:23:38 AM
Just give her a bucket of nickels and stick her at a slot machine. She could be there for days before anyone noticed.
 
UltimaCS
2012-02-21 02:54:49 AM
FTFA: A Coconut Creek Police officer wrote in his report that Sapstein had no signs of distress, but that she couldn't answer any basic questions about herself or about her medical history.

Sounds to me like grandma was doing just fine. Leave the ol' grandparents on the porch with a can of beer and some beans and they're set for the entire day.
 
cbackous [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 03:00:30 AM
FTA: According to police, a visitor to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 NW 40th Street, called police Sunday after noticing Belle Sapstein had been sitting alone inside of a silver Saturn for at least an hour. The car is registered to the elderly woman.

So this person watched her sit in a car for an hour? that's a little creepy.
 
miss diminutive
2012-02-21 03:03:56 AM
cbackous: FTA: According to police, a visitor to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 NW 40th Street, called police Sunday after noticing Belle Sapstein had been sitting alone inside of a silver Saturn for at least an hour. The car is registered to the elderly woman.

So this person watched her sit in a car for an hour? that's a little creepy.

I assume the person saw she was there, took notice, and then returned after an hour to find she was still there.
 
cbackous [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 03:10:42 AM
miss diminutive: cbackous: FTA: According to police, a visitor to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 NW 40th Street, called police Sunday after noticing Belle Sapstein had been sitting alone inside of a silver Saturn for at least an hour. The car is registered to the elderly woman.

So this person watched her sit in a car for an hour? that's a little creepy.

I assume the person saw she was there, took notice, and then returned after an hour to find she was still there.

how does she know the lady didnt leave the car during that period of time?

/why yes, I am a pedant.
 
miss diminutive
2012-02-21 03:14:14 AM
cbackous: miss diminutive: cbackous: FTA: According to police, a visitor to the Seminole Casino Coconut Creek, 5550 NW 40th Street, called police Sunday after noticing Belle Sapstein had been sitting alone inside of a silver Saturn for at least an hour. The car is registered to the elderly woman.

So this person watched her sit in a car for an hour? that's a little creepy.

I assume the person saw she was there, took notice, and then returned after an hour to find she was still there.

how does she know the lady didnt leave the car during that period of time?

/why yes, I am a pedant.

She's 95 years old, my guess is she doesn't move about easily by herself. Plus, if she's got dementia she probably looked lost and confused the entire time.
 
farkingismybusiness
2012-02-21 03:21:47 AM
Not like she'll remember it. No harm no foul.
 
ktybear
2012-02-21 03:51:16 AM
Old lady probably badgered the poor nurse into driving here there and then got all stroppy about having to get out of the car. So poor nurse thinks well while I'm here I'll go in for a bit and play for the old lady. And this is the thanks she gets!
 
planes
2012-02-21 04:25:32 AM
She left a 95 year old person alone for 2 hours without a cell phone. MY GOD! Oh, wait ... what would the 95 year old done with a cell phone? Look at it?
 
untaken_name
2012-02-21 06:07:11 AM
planes: She left a 95 year old person alone for 2 hours without a cell phone. MY GOD! Oh, wait ... what would the 95 year old done with a cell phone? Look at it?

Randomly punch buttons until it started playing Jay-Z and then throw it out the window to stop the "horrible noises" it was making.
 
JackalRabbit
2012-02-21 06:25:04 AM
so let me get this straight...it's okay then to lock your pet rover in the vehicle as long as you leave it a cell phone.
 
SDRR
2012-02-21 06:32:23 AM
untaken_name: Just give her a bucket of nickels and stick her at a slot machine. She could be there for days before anyone noticed.

Having recently gone to one of the "casinos" in S. FL for the first time, I can vouch for this.

Except for the bucket of nickles part.
 
rnatalie [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 08:13:24 AM
Did she crack the window a bit?
Did she take his clothes so he wouldn't leave like the mom-of-the-year and her 12 yo?
 
stebain
2012-02-21 08:53:23 AM
Someone had to do it. The patient wasn't about to abandon himself.

Actually, I guess that is kind of what dementia is, so I retract the above.
 
relcec [TotalFark]
2012-02-21 10:26:16 AM
"The woman was left alone without food, drink or a cellphone, according to the report."
oh the humanity, no 64oz big gulp?? no $5 footlong in her hand when the police arrived? no ipod? no iphone?
so we are all good if she leaves her with some bottled water, some peanuts, and a cell phone?
I get firing her, but maybe don't charge people with neglect unless they show evidence of actual neglect. not having a big gulp straw surgically attached to your lip is not neglect. shiatting you pants and sitting in it for an hour is.
I'd say the caregiver dodged a bullet that this old women didn't have a soiled diaper when the police arrived, but I'd leave it at that.
 
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