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Must have been very tall and dense grass. I wonder if they ever happens out in the cornfields. Corn grows super tall. Those machines are big and powerful too.
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As an equipment operator I'm aware of the difficulty in seeing EVERYTHING that is in the path of your working machinery.
In a park setting, it is very possible operator was avoiding trees, playground equipment, trash cans, fences, picnic shelters, BBQ pits, water fountains, basketball standards, people... and his trailing equiptment swung wide to the opposite side and clipped this person lying in tall grass. Very possible the victim passed out, drugs, heat exhaustion (109f). Sad experience for all.
Mowing 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.
In the spring in central CA, the grass/weeds grow 2-3 feet tall and then dry out in the summer to a crispy yellow-brown. It's hot, dry, scratchy (they've got star thistles!) and full of the various bugs/rodents that live in the weeds. Why is a woman "sleeping outdoors during the daytime", as her dad says, in 100+ degree weather in a park full of high weeds? This guy is up on a tractor, mowing waist-high weeds, sweating balls working in this heat, he's not going to see something lying in the grass until he's almost on top of it, if he sees it at all. The cut grass is all behind him, so he doesn't see her until he comes back on the next pass. I'm willing to bet she was either dead already, or was passed out high or unconscious. In that heat and dry weather, heatstroke is a real possibility. This is really no different than the guy who gets squished because he was sleeping in a dumpster. Wrong place, wrong time, and no one else to blame. The father is lashing out, probably feeling guilty himself that his daughter was living homeless when he's living close by.
They haven't even released the official cause of death, yet.
She was laying in tall weeds, why didn't she get up and move when she heard the sound of the mower approaching?
And why was this beautiful 27 year old woman homeless when she had a family that loved her living nearby? My guess is - drugs.
That was my thought as well. And dad hates hates hates that this is what it all came down to...so he's acting a little bit out of guilt...as though he could've done more for his daughter.
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