comment: >
  
  "Let me out! I'm the janitor!"
  Cop: yeah thats what they all say pal
context: There are layers to how awful that is.
  
  
  72 year old still working as a janitor.
  
  
  She's diabetic and could have died.
  
  
  No one checked on the holding cells for 3 days.
  
  
  Did no one realize she was missing all weekend? >
  
  The local cancer center has a janitor who is around this age. It's awful that our society has come to a point where the elderly have to keep working, and even worse that a lot of them have to take jobs like janitors. >
  
  Plenty of elderly people enjoy janitorial and cashier positions as a way to stay engaged in society. I agree nobody should have to work past retirement age, but I wouldn’t assume everyone is suffering and needs rescue. >
  
  Funny you say that.  I'm 52 and was laying in bed this morning thinking I'd like to work at the local hardware store when I retire from the "real world".  Between present and future experience, I'd be really good at it, and I enjoy helping people. >
  
  I reckon working without really worrying about the wages and getting fired all that much takes a whole lot of the edge off. >
  
  Agreed.
  When I retire, I want to be a teacher. I would really like to be the genuine and impactful teacher that has a lot of wisdom to impart. I want to teach things in the most beneficial way rather than how the school administration wants. If they want to fire me, that’s fine, I don’t need the money anyway. Being a teacher is really important, but I don’t know how anybody does it as a career. The pay is not enough >
  
  
  , but I don’t know how anybody does it as a career.
  
  It is tough and requires a lot of financial discipline.   
  // 18 down and twelve to go. >
  
  Godspeed! >
  
  
  The building is closed on Saturdays and Sundays, though records show there should have been security in the building during that time.
  
  Duty successfully shirked. >
  
  Same security guys that were guarding epstein, I see. >
  
  I don’t think these guys were paid off to abandon post >
  
  Holy shit, a 72-year-old diabetic woman. Luckily there was a water faucet inside the cell or she would be dead for sure. >
  
  They didn't take her to the hospital after they found her. What the fuck?! >
  
  I assume they asked her and instead being crushed by medical debt she decided to try and walk it off. >
  
  She's 72 and diabetic. She goes to the doctor all the time. I don't believe she'd refuse one hospital visit under that reasoning. >
  
  
  She goes to the doctor all the time.
  
  There is a big difference between scheduling doctors and a trip to the ER (where she would go). One of those I can save up for and make sure that I have the money for. The other one will give a litany of tests and an expensive as hell ambulance ride.
  Source: My fiancé has a medical condition that requires specialty doctor visits, but also sometimes has her end up in the ER. It can be devastating to get that ER and ambulance bill. It is actually one of the reasons we can't get married as it would crush us financially. >
  
  Would medicaid/medicare (idk the one for old people) not step in and cover part of the expenses? It's expected that old people go to the ER frequently. Is that not factored in to the old people insurance? >
  
  Hopefully she got overtime for that. >
  
  This was a lead story on our local morning news, 2 days in a row. IMHO her supervisor should have noticed that she was missing. That person is ultimately responsible for checking on employees. I can't imagine that she wasn't required to clock/check in before her shift. >
  
  So like.. there was no one there to see the cameras or feed anyone else in holding cells? >
  
  Holding cells are generally for holding prisoners who are due to appear in court that day.   
  If the court isn't open there shouldn't be anyone in there.