Originally published at: Medical Examiner’s mistake leads woman to carry father’s ashes for 3 Years—he’s still alive - Boing Boing
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Sounds like he was probably in a bad living situation already but being declared dead definitely didn’t help:
Kylie jumped into action and combed the streets of the Tenderloin, finding her father after 12 hours in “very very poor health,” she said. Because he had been considered dead, she learned he had lost his monthly disability checks. She told the Chronicle that her father had become addicted to fentanyl.
“My dad didn’t have as severe an addiction before this mistake,” Kylie told the Chronicle. “There’s been a significant decline in his health over the three years.”
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released when records “indicated he was dead,”
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that is so ridiculous. they didn’t have any bells go off in their head about a live person being listed as dead?!?! nothing to see here for sure! and the action is to then release them? why oh why is there NOT a face-palm emoji?
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This unfortunate man. My guess is the arrest was for a relatively minor infraction and the police decided it would less of a headache for them to let him go rather than process the paperwork and conduct the investigation to clear up the error.
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So much of our society’s approach to dealing with homelessness, addiction and mental health issues boils down to trying to make them someone else’s problem.
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The MEs office also has a lot to answer for here-no formal identification was the least of the problems. They knew enough to contact the daughter of the person renting the room, so they could have sent a picture.
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Wow! This is some Brazil-level dystopian bureaucratic indifference.
(“Brazil” the movie, not the country)
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Right? I guess zombies get legal immunity.
I mean, seriously. Assuming you haven’t arrested the undead, there are only two options here. Either you’ve arrested the wrong person or the records are f’d up. Either way, releasing the person without any further follow seems like the wrong move.
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I’ll have you know that Information Retrieval doesn’t make mistakes.
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Is this now the way to commit unlimited crime be dead?
This is why litches put all that effort into it.
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