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[–] 90 points 11 months ago (15 children)

State spending hundreds of thousands of dollars to chase a nonagenarian out of her home over a four figure rent check.

All so some landlord can afford another wing on the McMansion

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  • [–] 43 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

    "Hundreds of thousands of dollars" dude, absurd exaggeration doesn't help anyone. an eviction requires a single non-emergency callout, which in flordia costs around $2500 (evictions are usually categorized as property crime)

    Legal filings are covered by the landlord and are significantly more expensive (numbers I am seeing for florida are hovering around $5000, but like all things legal it varies wildly). This was disgusting, but the state isn't paying out orders of magnitude more than the loss just to protect some random landlord.

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  • [–] 26 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    Yeah it is. It's going to cost between 20 and 30k a year to keep her in a prison, and tax payers will have to pay for her medical treatment as well

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  • [–] 14 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

    She's 90 years old, it's a safe conclusion that the taxpayer was already paying for her medical care via medicare and she was already released (from jail) and the charges were dropped (as has been pointed out elsewhere in this thread). The original comment just made up the cost to farm outrage, and it's fucking ridiculous they felt the need to do that on a post about a 90 year old being evicted.

    I know it's rough to see propaganda you agree with called out, but that's what's happening here. That people are reacting as though I'm devaluing or excusing this travesty, I'm not, is the reason I'm doing it - even propaganda you agree with poisons the discussion. Hell, to my eye the cost to throw an ancient woman out of her housing being so incredibly cheap should really make this story all the more disgusting, as it highlights how cheap human suffering really is.

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  • [+] -31 points 11 months ago (9 children)

    Completely off topic, but had to look up what a nonagenarian is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say "in their 90s"

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  • [–] 11 points 11 months ago

    The Romans did or at least they created the base word structures. Primus, secundus, tertius, quartus, et cetera could all be compounded with the suffix genarian to create an age bracket specific word. For example I am a secundagenarian.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Completely off topic, but had to look up what a teenager is, and what a useless word. Who decided we needed such a long word to say "in their teens"

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