u/CommunicationAware88

So my sister was living about 5 hours away in Alabama. She's been talking about coming to stay with me, to escape, for a few days. Im not sure what transpired this morning but she called and said shs didn't have any gas but was driving until she couldn't anymore. I sent her some gas money, then she had a tire blow out. Got the donut on and to a used tire shop, sent almost every dollar I had to get her a tire on. I told her she likely wouldnt make it, but she's adamant she can't go back. She said he worked on her car last night, putting on some parts she has had for a while but insisted needed to be put on last night. She suspects he sabatoged her car because they had been fighting and he suspected she was leaving. Anyway. Shortly after another tire blew, got the donut on . Then the donut blew. I sent her a little money for food, a police man took her to Taco Bell and they left her car on the side of the interstate. Im at a loss for what to do, she refuses to call him or go back. She has no money, no way to fix or toe the car, nowhere to go. My vehicle isn't capable of making the 8 hour round trip to get her and I've sent her every dime I have. I am reaching out to every avenue I can come up with. Im happy to provide answers to any questions and as much proof as is available. Thank you for what you may be able to offer even if its advice. Sorry if this is rambling but im so upset and dont know what to do.

If you can help with: fixing/towing the car (I dont know to where), an uber and hotel for tonight (dont know what to do tomorrow) some guidance or advice on help. She's called 211 and the Alabama domestic violence hotline to no avail.

Edit: she's somewhere in Livingston AL, im in Hattiesburg MS the goal was originally to get her here to stay with me. Everything she owns is in the side of the interstate in her car. The police left a note on it to prevent it from being towed by state troopers. Edit: it was actually Warrior AL

Update: she was very, very angry that I called the fire dept. She refused to go to the hospital, but the police made her call her husband to come get her as a condition of not going to the hospital(Is what she told me) So now she's not talking to me, she's probably on the way home with him. I've spent my entire day terrified, putting out fires because she left all of a sudden with no preparation and not telling me the actual state the car was in, i have been hustling, borrowing, and sending every dime I could for gas/tires to get her here, and it was all a futile exercise from the start. Her first husband died by suicide so I really thought she'd understand why I had to call someone to check on her. I have incurable leukemia and have been in bed for 2 days prior to today, and am so sad, scared, and burnt out. Thank you all for your advice, concern, and compassion. Way to make it all about me, but im too scared to imagine her reality right now. Im going to try and sleep to escape all this a bit.

My sister lives in Alabama, and was able to load up her car and escape her domestic violence situation this morning. She's coming to stay with me about 4.5 hours away in Mississippi. She's on the road and suspects her abuser has tampered with her car, she's already had a blowout on the way. I was able to pay for a used tire but she's just called me from the side of the road again and I have nothing to help her now. If anyone has any ideas she's on the side of the road outside hanceville, AL and id hate for her to end up having to call him, she will pay for trying to leave. I have no way to get to her.

She's now broke down its Livingston AL. , a police officer gave her a ride to Taco bell. Idk what to do when they close. She's called 211 and every crisis line we could find.

So my 43M husband and I 41F were each purchasing a dollar general gift card (they can be used like cash to load the gaming wallet app Skrill, and are an easy, fee free way to move cash or money from a debit card to Skrill as late as 10 pm for online shopping or whatever purposes. Not all our debit cards will link in the app to transfer in). Husband grabs 2 new gift cards on his way to the register, hands a blank gift card to the cashier, he rings it up. Husband pays. Gets receipt and presumably the card. Husband had grabbed 2 blank cards off the shelf one for himself one for me, so he had mine ready and hands it to the cashier (here is where we suspect failure). The cashier has trouble scanning the card, it beeps but isn't bringing up the correct screen on the computer. I ask if maybe we should try a different card, Husband goes and grabs one from the shelf. It scans, I pay, take my card, we go. When Husband checks on his card, its as if it was never activated or purchased. No balance or transactions. Checking the receipt, the last 4 digits of the card we loaded do not match the last 4 of the card we left with.

So, either my husband accidentally handed the cashier the just loaded card instead of the new blank one, it wouldnt scan because it was already activated, and the loaded card either went in the trash, cashier reshelved it, pocketed it??? Or, something similar. We have all relevant receipts, transaction history for the cards we used to purchase, luckily it was 20ish min before close when we made the purchase. We are going back to the store first thing when they open tomorrow to see if we can figure it out by rolling back cameras possibly. We hope that the originally purchased card is still unused and we can have that value transferred to a different card. Husband is currently in the rain dumpster diving in their parking lot hoping it got tossed in the trash on the top layers and he can find it. (We are two very different people lol. Im gathering receipts, digital trails, looking up corporate contact info, and he's putting on a slicker suit and rain boots to try and find it)

My question is have any of you had issues with dollar general gift cards not being loaded correctly? Or lost/stolen cards? We're you able to recover the vvalue? This was $200 we would like to not lose! 😳😅😵‍💫

So April 30th my husband 43M and I 41F were pulled over, and both arrested, he for unpaid traffic tickets and myself for a failure to appear from 2023 when I was hospitalized with a cancer diagnosis and missed court.

So, my husband's brothers ex wife gets a phone call from someone claiming to be a detective, saying my husband has been arrested and someone needs to contact him to keep my husband from getting in a lot of trouble. She has been divorced from my brother in law something like 20 years, so she contacts my brother in law, who then contacts their mom.

My mother in law, 76F calls back the "detective" with the contact info passed along to her.

This is where the details get fuzzy because the info is second hand, but she had trouble contacting these people and removed/turned <<something >> off with their direction on her phone to be able to contact them. They claimed my husband was in big trouble, they were doing him a big favor and offering him a program so he could pay some large amount of money and get out of jail. She asked for a moment to talk to her husband and was pressured to go ahead and pay, so she hung up and called the bondsman who told her that was absolutely just a scam.

So anyway! When she leaves work in a couple hours, she's coming by to let me look at her phone and fix whatever scam blocker settings they had her change, and ensure there's no malware or remote desktop stuff installed. Anything in particular settings wise (Samsung galaxy) or otherwise I need to be watching out for in addition to security scans?