Algae bloom in the shape of a mullet.
why would anyone notice? no one was looking for him. People see only what they want and expect to see.
It isn’t as if this was some remote deep water lake, it was clearly visible just yards from a nice home and recently cut grass. Seems pretty strange to me at a quick glance.
Surprised that the county taxing authority did not note the vehicle and appraise the owner of the pond for having a parking structure.
But then again...it is FloriDuh.
Something really IS in the water.
Wouldn't you think someone would have questioned the tire tracks leading into the pond?
Is he gonna be ok?
You mean Florida Man thats in the news everyday is an impostor?
Every few years, a car or truck with human remains is found in a canal or pond in Florida and a missing person case gets resolved. Usually, an abandoned canal car is found to have been stolen and abandoned after a joy ride or use in a crime. Police in some areas are overwhelmed with reports of cars in canals and ponds.
In most cases, it takes specialized divers and equipment to retrieve such a car and then forensic experts and detectives to look for remains and evidence of a crime. The cost of such an effort means that police usually just take the report of an old car seen in a canal and do little or nothing unless it can be connected to a report of a crime.
In one South Florida case, a grieving mother solved her son's long-ago disappearance when she went through local police files for canal car reports and found one that seemed to correspond to her son's car and likely route. When the car was retrieved, it was found to contain the son's remains and evidence that he had been murdered. An investigation eventually found his killers and led to their conviction.
Never be an early adopter of new technology. In this case, voice-assisted GPS.
“Turn left.”
“But there seems to be some wate...”
“I SAID TURN LEFT!”
Something similar happened here in Chicago years ago. I can’t recall who it was but the wife of a prominent person just drove off one day as usual and vanished.
She was found years later in a retention pond still in the front seat.
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Men are more solitary and when they die few notice.
Not really.
Ponds in Florida are home to alligators.
If he drove into water during construction of the development, maybe he was the first to arrive on the block, even before any residents? Tire tracks in a construction area wouldn’t seem so odd and eventually be landscaped.
With drones becoming more and more commonplace, I bet we’ll see a lot more discoveries like this, as people send their drones up to get birds-eye views of their neighborhood.
But was still able to vote as a Democrat …….
UPDATE: How Google Earth helped find man missing since 1997 in Wellington pond
The pond where the car was found is a stretched tear-drop shape, with homes on two sides and a guardrail on the other.
But that barrier would not have been in place in 1997 to stop Moldt’s car from driving into the pond. Grand Isles was under construction at the time. It sits toward Wellington’s southeast corner and is north of Lake Worth Road and west of State Road 7.
Fay’s home and others in Grand Isles’ Sausalito subdivision weren’t built until 1998. Only the roads and ponds were in place in 1997.
The Saturn was “heavily calcified and was obviously in the water for a significant amount of time,” PBSO said.
It was after crews pulled the car from the water that skeletal remains were found, and it would take nearly two weeks for the Medical Examiner’s Office to confirm the remains were those of Moldt
No wonder the Water tasted “funny”.