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.
The "storage charges" are enormous and extortionate. There are often kickbacks to corrupt city officials, who limit who is allowed to tow.
Here is one bad review about Skyway Towing from Yelp: Worst towing and customer service experience ever.
My 16 year old son was in a car accident on his way home from college, and the State Patrol had our car towed here (without our knowledge or approval). We drove two hours to pick up our son and retrieve the belongings from the car, before leaving it to insurance to deal with.
When we arrived, there were three people standing behind the desk. I introduced myself as the owner of a car that was recently towed, gave the make and model and my name, and asked to get my son's items from the car. After pulling my chain for a minute, telling me to ask one guy, who said to ask the next guy, who said to ask the next guy, all the while laughing at my regardless of my distress level, the last guy laughed in my face and said no. He said they were closed and they would only let me get my items if I paid them a $91 fee. I said that they didn't look closed, and they laughed and told me "too bad".
I didn't have $91 available to me, so they wouldn't let me get the items from my car, ten feet away. My son's college books are in the car, along with his computer, and suitcase containing all his clothing and toiletries. Everything he owns is sitting in our car, and all they did is point and laugh.
Stay far away. I can only imagine how they treat vehicles and their contents, if they treat people this way.
Atlanta is also in the running - “Body found outside Grady Memorial Hospital, police say” - Apparently the man had been there for days having been discharged and still clutching his ekg report while passersby (presumably including medical “professionals”) stepped over his body.
I applaud your initiative in driving it out, but am curious to know how it turned out.
I had to pay the tow fee or he was going to arrest me.
My car was towed a couple of months ago in the Orlando area. When I went to pick it up and was paying at the office, I noticed a set of keys that looked very familiar on a desk
about 10 feet behind the counter. I paid and asked if they had removed anything from the car...they said no...I pointed to the set of keys and said that I believe they were mine. They handed them to me. Sure enough, it was a separate set of only house keys for my houses in Florida that I kept in the glove compartment. It had a very distinctive bronze ornament on the keychain. I am sure that they took them on purpose...they had house addresses from the information in the registration and glove compartment. As soon as I left, I had all of the locks changed in case they made copies of the keys...they had a key making machine in the office!
I thought he was going to add charging you with auto theft for stealing back what had been stolen from you.
I think trespassing and criminal mischief.
It was at University of Delaware where the parking scum and tow trucks operate a BS racket.
(A lot of these towing companies are a huge legal scam to legally steal cars and extort money)
This
Yeah....sounds like the mom was disabled also.
“It was someone who called us and said ‘Please search the car,’ they saved his life,” Pauja said.
I hate these new pronouns.
It was the woman’s sister.
I don’t know. I once left my hat in the car accidentally.
I’m guessing Wash State.
The story is from a Seattle TV station
Did you drive your car to the gas station and leave it there, with the hat still in there? Yeah I guess things do happen. 🙂
“Car was towed to Burien which is next to White Center”
Oh, THAT really clears it up! /s
“England?
Washington?
Antarctica?”
The mother abandoned her daughter and did not say anything to anyone.
The sister of the person left in the car is the one who alerted authorities.
Whoa. Where was the vehicle towed to in Orlando?
Those towing companies are mostly all corrupt. The longer you leave the car the more they charge you, and it’s not cheap to begin with.
For them to have towed it, she had to have had abandoned it for at least several hours. With a severely disabled person in the car.
Driver is guilty of attempted murder.
Definitely not in, Sheriff Grady Judd’s Polk Co. Fla.!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dVUGU72ahlU
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxWsiSh_ccA&t=79s
She didn’t report anything for 9 days, apparently. But may be insane in her own right.
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