Posted on 04/11/2023 2:34:01 PM PDT by thegagline
A missing Texas woman was found alive last week in a Jeep that plunged into a lake and was almost entirely submerged, police said.
The unidentified woman had been missing from Longview when she was found inside the black vehicle in Lake o’ the Pines on Friday, the Marion County Sheriff’s Office said.
Pictures from the scene show the hood of the Jeep just barely visible above the water about 40 feet from the shore. The sheriff’s office’s statement said that a fisherman alerted authorities to the vehicle in the morning.
Police arrived at the scene about 18 minutes later, then waited for a local wrecking crew to arrive.
“We do not know how long the Jeep was in the water,” Capt. Chuck Rogers told NPR of the incident.
The police and the wrecking crew were getting ready to tow the car using the fisherman’s own boat when they noticed someone was inside and moving. *** They pulled the woman onto the boat and took her to shore, where she huddled in a car to keep warm before an ambulance arrived.
Her current condition is unknown, and Longview authorities have declined to share further details about her disappearance.
The Marion County Sheriff’s Office believes the Jeep rolled into the lake accidentally.
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That would never happen with my Jeep. There aren’t any lakes inside the repair shop.
“How do you watch a submarine race?”
That was the point of using a term like “submarine races”. Since such a thing is impossible they spend the time there …doing something else.
Ivar’s History of Creative Marketing
Ivar’s was founded by Ivar Haglund, a Seattle folk singer who built the city’s first aquarium. The restaurant was founded because Ivar thought it would be wise to feed visitors of the aquarium seafood.
He gave his restaurants unusual stylings, modeling one of his locations after an Indian longhouse. For decades, he sponsored a local fireworks spectacular, drawing more than 300,000 people every summer. In the area, Ivar Haglund was somewhat of a legend.
The Underwater Billboards
Ivar’s began the underwater billboard campaign by announcing the discovery of documents from the 1950s that provided a map to billboards that the restaurant’s founder had sunken in Puget Sound.
Supposedly, Haglund envisioned a future where consumers would be driving personal underwater submarines and he had placed billboards in the Sound to get an edge on advertising to this submarine-driving demographic. Then, news broke that sailors had recovered one of these authentic billboard advertisements from the bottom of Puget Sound.
The wooden billboard that was recovered advertised a bowl of clam chowder for just 75 cents and was decorated with weathered paint and barnacles. Other billboards were also recovered.
Well, duh!
Apparently, none of Marion County's finest thought to ask the woman, herself, when she went into the water.
Dammmmm.
What a piece of crap!
George Costanza?
Who could ever forget? “This guy named Dan, Rush’s Limbaugh’s fan, To acquisition fall’s edition, He’ll raise some money, Enrage his honey, Dan’s baking cookies...”
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