Posted on 11/28/2005 10:13:05 PM PST by NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
It was a rainy day and a Monday that got one woman down.
Five hours after she reported to work at her job in Des Plaines, she discovered her black 2004 Land Rover missing from a parking lot.
That’s when she learned witnesses had reported seeing her vehicle sink to the bottom of the manmade lake outside the O’Hare Lake Office Plaza off I-294, about 15 minutes after she arrived to work in the rain.
Investigators believe another vehicle rear-ended the Land Rover, sending it down a slope into the lake, Police Chief James Prandini said.
Employees at the Federal Aviation Administration offices, which are in a different building in the O’Hare Lake complex on Devon Avenue, called authorities after seeing an SUV tipped up in the water with its lights on about 7:30 a.m., Des Plaines Fire Chief John Heavey said.
As 100 rescuers from 15 area fire departments worked to locate the submerged SUV in Peterson Lake, fire officials at about noon asked employees to move their cars to make way for a tow truck.
That’s when the unidentified woman realized her SUV was missing. The woman, who appeared shaken and upset, declined to comment.
By the time of her discovery, officials and divers had been working for about four hours. Divers initially couldn’t find a vehicle in the lake because wind kicked up dirt and created zero visibility underwater, Heavey said.
Using sonar equipment from Lake County authorities, officials at about 11:30 a.m. detected the shape of a car in the water not far from the east parking lot where the woman parked — and sent divers down about 1 p.m.
The Land Rover was found upside down 35 feet below the water. Two hours later, at 3 p.m., officials used a tow truck to drag it out of the water.
During the daylong mission, rescue boats circled the lake. Curious employees also circled the sidewalk around the lake.
Over the past decade, at least two cars have ended up in Peterson Lake, said Lori Flis, property manager for the office complex. No one was injured in the incidents, she said. The lake is about 60 feet at its deepest, officials said.
More evidence of an unseen Special Forces PETA elimination squad...
I'm just surprized that the headline didn't attribute some irreversable damage to the lake, due to the SUV coming into contact with it. That is some sort of a record isn't it?
Divers initially couldn’t find a vehicle in the lake because wind kicked up dirt and created zero visibility underwater, Heavey said.
Those underwater winds can do that.
The Land Rover was found upside down 35 feet below the water.
My mistake. The car wasn't IN the water (despite what the earlier paragraph said) it was BELOW the water. That must have been where the wind was. Water must have a different density there. When I try to put a layer of air below the water, it bubbles out.
It isn't like she would have been able to drive the vehicle home if it hadn't gone in the water. It sounds like she left the lights on, and would have ended up with a dead battery anyway. I wonder if she remembered to turn off the engine and take it out of gear.
Burp?
So she left it in neutral, with the lights on?
Sounds like a SUVicide.....
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See. The lakes are taking revenge for all that pollution these evil SUVs put out. It was long overdue.
:)
Dude, where's my car?
LOL!
That'll teach her to heed the reserved parking space sign next time......:o)
Glub, glub........
It's quite possible. The story seems to leave room for that possibility.... ya think?!
Thanks for the nice workup on Paddock Publications Inc. A mom and pop that seem to have made it. Great.
The Herald is a nice read, but they still use too many AP stories\headlines.
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