Woman who worked in four jobs, overcome by fumes, dies as she naps in car | NJ.com

[MattSh]

ELIZABETH — Maria Fernandes worked four jobs, including shifts at two different Dunkin Donuts.

Often she drove from job to job, stopping along the road to catch a couple hours sleep, police said. She kept a container of gasoline in her 2001 Kia Sportage because occasionally she ran out of gas, authorities said.

Early Monday, the 32-year-old Newark woman pulled into a lot off Route 1 & 9 in Elizabeth for a nap. She apparently left the car running and was overcome by carbon monoxide mixed with fumes from the gas can that had overturned, police said. Fernandes was found dead in the car about eight hours later.

"This sounds like someone who tried desperately to work and make ends meet, and met with a tragic accident," Elizabeth police Lt. Daniel Saulnier said.

An autopsy today failed to determine the cause of death, and police are awaiting results of toxicology tests, Saulnier said. He said no foul play is suspected.

http://www.nj.com/union/index.ssf/2014/08/deceased_woman_in_elizabeth_worked_four_jobs_napped_in_car_overcome_by_fumes_police_say.html

[Sherman A1]

1. Sad,

simply sad.

[littlemissmartypants]

2. ^ eom

[bobGandolf]

3. What a country....nah no reason to increase minimum wage. N/T

[maced666]

6. You know what she was making?

Geez.

[WinkyDink]

7. Yeah, she was a budding millionaire.

STUPIDITY ABOUNDS.

[newfie11]

10. Working 4 jobs?

Why would she if she could make a living wage on one.

[awoke_in_2003]

15. Anyone making decent money...

is not going to willingly work 4 jobs. A full and part time I could see. But not 4.

[Gormy Cuss]

18. Ya think she was rolling in dough and had four jobs because she was greedy?

Get real.

[alphafemale]

4. Safe passage, Maria.

[dipsydoodle]

8. ditto.

.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. yes

[perdita9]

5. These are the 'lazy' people Paul Ryan et al. are always complaining about

[BlueJazz]

9. "because occasionally she ran out of gas" Working 4 jobs and not being able to..

...keep your tank full of fuel.
I just want to cry....

[newfie11]

11. What have we become as a country

Third world status for some and the future looks like many more in this country will achieve it also if the oligarch continue to
Reign.

[etherealtruth]

12. Tragic for this poor woman (may she RIP)

... and a horrible commentary on our country.

[Alkene]

13. This American Life.

A tragic personal story and a somber commentary on nickle and dime employment in the USA.

[RufusTFirefly]

14. "Uniquely American, isn't it?"

“You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that."

-- George W. Bush, to a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005

[senseandsensibility]

17. Horrible horrible horrible

comment.

[RufusTFirefly]

19. Yes. Despite all my differences with the current President, we could do much, much worse

But that's no way to build a democracy, thinking about what you've avoided instead of what you can achieve.

[whereisjustice]

20. Nothing has really changed since then, wages stayed flat or decreased, prices and CEO pay gone up