{"id":44793,"date":"2026-04-16T04:06:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44793"},"modified":"2026-04-16T04:06:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:06:23","slug":"cops-called-to-91-year-old-womans-home-for-welfare-check-find-her-playing-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=44793","title":{"rendered":"Cops Called To 91-Year-Old Woman&#039;s Home For Welfare Check Find Her Playing Video Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/a\/uploads\/screen_medium\/1179\/11799911\/4683087-screenshot2026-04-15at3.28.13%E2%80%AFpm.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An elderly woman has been confirmed OK after police were called to her home for a welfare check, only to find her playing video games&#8211;and trying to break a personal record.<\/p>\n<p>News 5 Cleveland reports that authorities were dispatched to the woman&#8217;s home on April 9 after she did not answer a call from an automated welfare-check system. This was part of the city&#8217;s use of the &#8220;Confirm OK&#8221; system, whereby people can agree to get calls for welfare checks.<\/p>\n<p>The woman did not answer these calls, or a call from a police dispatcher. Authorities then called the woman&#8217;s daughter to confirm that her mother should have been home at the time. Police then went to the home for a wellness check and initially &#8220;became more alarmed&#8221; because the woman did not answer their knock.<\/p>\n<p>Continue Reading at GameSpot<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamespot.com\/articles\/cops-called-to-91-year-old-womans-home-for-welfare-check-find-her-playing-video-games\/1100-6539430\/?ftag=CAD-01-10abi2f\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An elderly woman has been confirmed OK after police were called to her home for a welfare check, only to find her playing video games&#8211;and&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[20634,2229,1017,11184,803,321,469,4965,1256,12351,20635],"class_list":["post-44793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-gadgets-reviews","tag-91yearold","tag-called","tag-check","tag-cops","tag-find","tag-games","tag-home","tag-playing","tag-video","tag-welfare","tag-woman039s","wpcat-32-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=44793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/44794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}