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""What is tragic about this is we have our special resources teams that have connections to different resources," Whitney said. "We don't want these people living in their cars, and especially with small children. We want them to be off the streets for their own safety."
WAPO:
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — Authorities say a homeless man found dead alongside his girlfriend and their two young children in a parked van in Southern California had a lengthy rap sheet.
Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman for California’s corrections agency, said Saturday that 41-year-old Phunyouphone Kanyavong was sentenced in 1993 to more than a decade for conspiracy to murder and a weapon enhancement. She says he got a court-ordered discharge in 1994 but records didn’t immediately show why.
Garden Grove Police Lt. Carl Whitney says Kanyavong was on probation for a weapon conviction when the family was found in their pajamas Thursday inside the van at a strip mall parking lot.
""What is tragic about this is we have our special resources teams that have connections to different resources," Whitney said. "We don't want these people living in their cars, and especially with small children. We want them to be off the streets for their own safety."
WAPO:
GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — Authorities say a homeless man found dead alongside his girlfriend and their two young children in a parked van in Southern California had a lengthy rap sheet.
Vicky Waters, a spokeswoman for California’s corrections agency, said Saturday that 41-year-old Phunyouphone Kanyavong was sentenced in 1993 to more than a decade for conspiracy to murder and a weapon enhancement. She says he got a court-ordered discharge in 1994 but records didn’t immediately show why.
Garden Grove Police Lt. Carl Whitney says Kanyavong was on probation for a weapon conviction when the family was found in their pajamas Thursday inside the van at a strip mall parking lot.
Their names sounds Laotian to me (have someone Laotian who married into my family). There are many in Michigan and California
Carbon monoxide is a gas that binds to the hemoglobin in your blood much more tightly than oxygen does and so is very dangerous even in small amounts. It is odorless so I doubt the family even knew what was happening.
40 degrees outside, even with sleeping bags gets really cold, but certainly could have been some type of heater. This is a terrible tragedy and thank you, posters, for not denigrating these people when no one knows the whole story.
Their names sounds Laotian to me (have someone Laotian who married into my family). There are many in Michigan and California.
Could be. I thought Thai, but Lao and Thai are mutually intelligible--very closely related languages.
A space heater is certainly possible, but reports have mentioned the van being parked very closely to a grassy verge which may have blocked the exhaust pipe, so it sounds like they think the car engine was involved.
The member said HOMELESS DOGS in PR. Literally four legged dogs being shipped here from PR to the mainland USA.
NOT homeless PR humans.
yeah, SMH.
I know what it said. The point is that the poster is saying that saving dogs in Puerto Rico is a negative and is taking away from helping Americans. Saving dogs there is no different than saving dogs in Houston or New Orleans aka saving American dogs. FOH
I was referring to all the rescue groups that fly in the homeless DOGS from Puerto Rico to rehome them in the US.
Yeah, homeless dogs from a US territory being flown into the mainland. How is that wrong? Would you object to Hawaiian dogs being flown? Once again, Puerto Ricans are Americans and the displaced pets deserve as much help as you'd give any other area.
Another question that came up in my head is why the hell are they breeding if they don't even have a home? Why are impoverished people always breeding more than they can afford? Bringing homeless children into the world is just creating misery on top of misery.
Yeah, homeless dogs from a US territory being flown into the mainland. How is that wrong? Would you object to Hawaiian dogs being flown? Once again, Puerto Ricans are Americans and the displaced pets deserve as much help as you'd give any other area.
PR is an unincorporated territory, and it has not yet been incorporated into the U.S. Therefore, it is not legally a part of the United States.
PR residents do not pay the federal income tax, except on income from sources outside of Puerto Rico. Unlike Virgin Islands.
Puerto Ricans in the island don't vote in U.S. presidential elections and don't vote in U.S. congressional elections,.
#civics
Go ahead and make any case you want for importing thousands of homeless dogs from THAT COUNTRY like you would from any other country.
On top of the NINE MILLION we already have here that get euthanized every year.
But let's not pretend it's based on civics.
What is it about Americans they have to scavenge around the world for abused animals when we have more than our fair share suffering right here under our noses? Being dumped in public or in shelters then straight out the back door being killed.
In my opinion, it's virtue signaling.
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