{"id":75578,"date":"2026-04-15T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75578"},"modified":"2026-04-15T16:36:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:36:46","slug":"cops-called-to-91-year-old-womans-home-for-welfare-check-find-her-playing-video-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=75578","title":{"rendered":"Cops Called To 91-Year-Old Woman&#8217;s Home For Welfare Check Find Her Playing Video Games"},"content":{"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 trying to break a personal record.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cleveland.com\/community\/2026\/04\/video-game-playing-senior-sparks-concern-then-relief-at-westlake-police-department.html\">News 5 Cleveland reports<\/a> 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 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.confirmok.com\/\">&#8220;Confirm OK&#8221;<\/a> 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>Officers entered the home to find the woman playing a &#8220;bubble pop&#8221; video game and attempting to break her previous record. Body camera footage was released as part of the police activity, but it doesn&#8217;t show the moment that officers found the woman due to privacy reasons.<\/p>\n<p><video data-embed-type=\"video\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=miNWXyKKmMo\" data-width=\"100%\" data-height=\"100%\" data-embed-url=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/media.html?src=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FmiNWXyKKmMo%3Fwmode%3Dopaque%26feature%3Doembed&amp;wmode=opaque&amp;display_name=YouTube&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmiNWXyKKmMo&amp;image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FmiNWXyKKmMo%2Fhqdefault.jpg&amp;type=text%2Fhtml&amp;schema=youtube\"><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everyone was a little bit alarmed that she was missing these contacts, &#8221; Westlake police department captain<\/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 trying to break a personal record. 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&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":75580,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-75578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external","brand-gamespot"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75578"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=75578"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":75581,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75578\/revisions\/75581"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}