Posted on 02/24/2022 5:03:32 AM PST by algore
A severely disabled woman was found by Kent police inside a car that had been in a tow yard for nine days, according to the Kent Police Department.
Around 3:15 p.m. on Feb. 14, Kent police responded to a report of a missing person.
The reporting person told officers her severely disabled sister had not been seen since earlier in the month.
An investigation revealed the woman was last seen on Feb. 5, when her mother parked her car at a gas station in Kent and walked off, leaving her daughter in the car.
At the request of the gas station, the car was privately towed to Skyway Towing in Burien.
“(Gas station workers) knocked on the car to make sure nobody was in it. My driver had done the same. We thought we were clear,” said Bon Pauza, manager of Skyway Towing.
Officers contacted Pauza about prying open the car. He told KIRO 7 TV it was a discovery he will never forget.
“In 30 years of towing, I’ve never seen anything like this,” Pauza said.
According to police, the woman had been there for nine days, alone in the tow yard, enduring near-freezing weather. They added that the woman is severely disabled and likely wouldn’t have been able to call out for help.
She was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
“You find them alive, you’re a whole lot happier than if you find a dead body, so we were pretty excited by it,” Pauza told KIRO 7.
1. How does one miss something like this?
2. “Hey, to make an omelette, you need to break a few eggs!”
Nine days without water? Thats pushing it.
The missing link is why the mother didn’t say, “I parked the car here, with her in it, and when I got back the car was gone.” Then the gas station can say, “Oh we had that car towed, by this company, it will be in the lot X.”
(“(Gas station workers) knocked on the car to make sure nobody was in it. My driver had done the same. We thought we were clear,” said Bon Pauza, manager of Skyway Towing.)
Sure. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
“Kent.”
England?
Washington?
Antarctica?
Unless the mother has dementia, she should be charged for that.
-PJ
Car was towed to Burien which is next to White Center
The tow truck divers were probably high on legal pot.
They should know.
I had my car towed once. I snuck into the yard and drove it out.
Got a phone call later from the state police…
I think I’d have to see a picture of the car to see exactly how ‘knocking on it’ several times would satisfy anyone that no one was in the car. Heavily tinted windows? Paneled van? Disability van? Cargo area? Something just seems really strange about this.
Bonafacio Pauja, general manager of tow company Skyway Towing & Recovery, told Seattle king-tv That police calls prompted him to re-examine a 2004 Cadillac that had been brought in from a gas station nine days earlier.
Missing woman found in back seat of Cadillac, report says
(KCPQ)
They sent out a driver who unlocked the Cadillac and found the missing woman in the back seat with a “bunch of clothes and stuff on her.”
“It was someone who called us and said ‘Please search the car,’ they saved his life,” Pauja said.
Cigarettes?...................
I bet their insurance carrier wasn’t all that happy she was alive. Probably means a 10 fold increase in the value of the suit. Dead people tell no tales and don’t show up in a courtroom in a wheelchair.
Strange. Covered up with clothes and stuff? By whoever parked the car or by the disabled person trying to stay warm.
The mother abandoned the child and didn’t say anything.
About the only way the report could be more confusing, would be if it happened in Springfield.
Oh yeah, definitely sounds intentional.
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