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THE PHOTO WAS so startling that it almost seemed staged. In the driver’s seat, the man’s head is dropped back, his eyes closed, mouth agape, one hand draped on the steering wheel in front of him and the other in his lap. In the passenger seat, a woman is slumped toward him, the straps of her tank top off her shoulders. Both appear to be out cold.
In the backseat, a young boy, the woman’s grandson, dressed in a blue T-shirt with a brightly colored dinosaur on it, looks blankly at the camera.
The photo, taken by Ohio police officer Fred Flati, went viral when his chief and the mayor posted it on the city’s Facebook page. Flati said he decided to take the photo because it wasn’t the first time he’d seen something like this, and he knew it wouldn’t be the last. He
