Posted on 03/09/2024 7:09:04 AM PST by bitt
Angela Chao, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law, spent her last minutes alive frantically calling her friends for help as her Tesla slowly sank in a pond on a remote Texas ranch, according to a report.
Chao, the billionaire former CEO of dry bulk shipping giant Foremost Group, tragically died at the age of 50 on Feb. 10 after accidentally backing her car into the pond while making a three-point turn.
The driving mishap was detailed in a report by The Wall Street Journal that shed light on the chaotic rescue efforts that ultimately came up short, turning what was supposed to be a celebratory weekend with friends into a nightmare.
Chao invited several of her girlfriends from Harvard Business School to spend the weekend on a gorgeous, sprawling 900-acre private property in Texas’ Hill Country, that included horse stables, a swimming pool and a 10-bedroom guesthouse, the Journal reported.
After eating dinner together and celebrating the Chinese New Year on Friday night, Chao left the guesthouse around 11:30 p.m. to head back to the main house, where her son was sleeping. It was cold out, so she decided to take her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute drive rather than walk.
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I’m seeing articles saying that this is being investigated as a possible crime vs. the previously reported “axedent”.
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The sheriff’s office dispelled that narrative a few days ago.... the Stateman in Austin had reported on it fairly extensively but I see that the piece I read is now ‘premium content’. Too bad because it also showed the letter to AG Paxton where Blanco was looking for some advice.... https://www.statesman.com/restricted/?return=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.statesman.com%2Fstory%2Fnews%2Fstate%2F2024%2F03%2F04%2Fangela-chao-death-texas-has-not-pivoted-criminal-investigation-tack-officials-say%2F72841433007%2F
Regardless, here’s another piece that says at least some of the same thing... https://sg.news.yahoo.com/austin-authorities-investigation-angela-chao-192305579.html
Good catch on the Blanco property appraisal website. What I didn’t see mentioned there is the airstrip to the northwest... that must be listed under a different title.
If it was submerged, as that was the context of our discussion, ie, there are other vehicles besides Tesla that have electronic locks plus non-obvious remote releases. Oy.
It doesn't matter, this story will be dead by Monday anyway...
“The sheriff’s office dispelled that narrative a few days ago.... the Stateman in Austin had reported on it fairly extensively but I see that the piece I read is now ‘premium content’.”
Much like the Obama chef’s death, I suspect that all of this will be “splained away” and then disappeared (covered up). You know... the usual Clintonista scenario.
Again, I’d love to see the layout of Mitch’s property...
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Mitch’s property? It was owned by Angela Chao’s husband....
This is such a horrible story!
I saw a video that shows they actually dont work
he was an excellent chekov tragic death.
“ Reminds me of obamy’s chef drowning after his paddle board attacked him...”
Sure, but Obama’s chef wasn’t a Director of the Bank of China or a Director of the Chiba State Shipbuilding Corporation or a billionaire owner of Foremost Shipping with a billionaire husband funding/partnering with the People’s Liberation Army.
Not to mention a sister who was Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission and Secretary of Transportation. And brother in law who was Senate Leader.
for those of you that keep saying 4 minute walk that is not what the article says. a 4 minute walk is much different than a 4 minute drive. I can understand taking the car.
the video of that property shows multiple types of terrain vehicles. Of course a bunch of panicked drunk women would not know what to do even if they knew about the vehicles.
that property looks like one that would provide a lot of joy for the next owner.
“ Whacked?”
By Chicoms most likely.
She’s one of them but part of the faction that opposes Xi.
The property owner’s address is the same as her husbands company. It just got put on a list for doing business that aids the Chinese military.
Hillary staying in practice?
“The property owner’s address is the same as her husbands company. It just got put on a list for doing business that aids the Chinese military.”
And this conflict of interest....ChiCom in-laws ... is the best the GOP can do re: SML. Sad. And indicative of WHY we’re always on the losing, ‘s’ end of every deal.
So many have commented on having a window breaker so that one can get out. I wondered how these actually work underwater and so did a search on this... it turned out to be quite interesting as there are endless videos on youtube about this.
Two takeaways from what I found out...
1. Since the engine on an ICE car is the heavy spot, the front end will sink first. I’m not sure where the heavy spot is on an EV but that would be important to know.
2. Very important.... You must have a good quality window breaking device and that means one that is spring loaded that will pop out and destroy the glass. You can not swing a hammer underwater and in fact, at the first link it shows a hammer that actually broke and the guy using it wasn’t even in the water.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqHfONs80AA This one did not work at all and in fact it broke!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqBW1OSepbw This one worked well and the guy doing the demo did it with the car essentially full of water.
Bottom line... it is very important to have one of these in the car but it has to be a good quality one. And I suspect that by ‘good quality’, this means finding out for sure that it will break the glass for the car that you have. I have no doubt that some glass is much harder to break than others.
And that’s my public safety service message for the day.....
Manual release is great for someone who is not Panicking. When a person is panicking, they often ignore the obvious solution to their problem.
What are you talking about?
“What are you talking about?”
About the ChiCom connection between Mitch and his wife and sister-in-law. It’s not exactly new “news”.... and in a sane, if not perfect, world... it would equate to a huge conflict of interest... considering the sway Mitch has had over legislation passed in America.
“The Chao family’s connections to the Chinese state go back decades”
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/02/us/politics/transportation-secretary-elaine-chao.html
https://www.thethinkingconservative.com/dot-connecting-between-angela-chao-and-mitch-mcconnell/
Yes, but the “new news” is how close her sister who just died was to the Chinese Communists.
She had to have actually been a member of the party or equivalent to hold the positions she did.
There’s appeasement, constructive engagement, being a panda hugger etc…
But Angela Chao went well beyond that.
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