So I had something pretty disturbing happen to yesterday. I'm not sure if this is exactly the most appropriate thing to be posting even without names and details, and I may delete this post later, but I'm rather upset and I would like to know what you all would suggest be done, if anything.
Last night, I was on the phone with a close friend, who happens to still live with their parents. He was upset, if not hysterical over personal matters and was crying pretty hard. I was trying to get him to calm down when I heard his mother come in. As it happened, she was annoyed with him for crying and began shouting at him, demanding him tell her what was going on and that he give her the phone. At some point I hung up the phone, sensing it would be a bad idea for me to try to talk to her if she got ahold of the phone. Maybe ten minutes later he called me back, out of breath. The crying had mostly stopped, but he was still sniffing now and then and he did break down a few times by the time we stopped talking. As it turned out, she had actually kicked him out of the house into the freezing cold with no where to go. For crying. Yeah. 
Needless to say I'm pretty mad. Appalled really. I can't believe anyone could be so cruel to someone for crying. 
Thought I'd share, see what you all think. If it wouldn't get me in legal trouble I know she's get what was coming to her, but obviously that's a plain bad idea. He's a good friend of mine though, and I'm tired of sitting around while he's punished for doing something perfectly natural and okay.