Woman Sues DIP Storage Facility Over Bizarre Ordeal (Locked In Box For 63 Days)

Mobile Register ^ | 9-26-2003 | Gary McElroy

[BSunday]

The old DIP Diet, eh?

[Publius6961]

She survived on rats all that time?
After she had herself locked in?

[doc30]

I'd like to hear what she did to try to get out. The article said it would be forthcoming in the trial. Until then, I'll wait before making fun of whatever lame excuse she comes up with.

[wardaddy]

I own one of these.

It would be unlikely for no one to hear someone locked in a regular outside unit.

In climate control walk-up, you could find yourself in trouble say...over the holidays with no one coming and going.

I always lock rented units that have been left un-locked...for theft reasons.

Why did she not scream when the door first rolled down?

Vexing.

[bevlar]

Agree with you - where can we see a picture? I went to the site mentioned but there is an advertisement where the picture was probably posted.

[alnick]

I've heard about how the LDS stockpile food, but in this case, the woman was emaciated after 63 days. She obviously did not have access to a large quantity of food. She had, apparently, a few cans of food and some juice, but not enough to nourish her.

[RS]

"Hmmm . . . she just happened to have enough fluid in her storage space to survive for 63 days, eh?

What are the chances of that?

Something is very fishy here."

My guess is she was living in there.

[kjam22]

Yeah.... I read this thinking they were gonna say she had 27 cats with her.

[xJones]

And that was apparently the last anyone saw of Hudson for more than two months.

I'll believe that the yahoo may have disappeared for a while, but I doubt she was locked in that storage space for over two months.

She apparently had survived on juice and canned foods, her attorney had said earlier.

I trust there are scores of empty cans and juice bottles littering the room. She didn't let a squawk for over two months, just sat in there with her furniture and a large enough supply of liquids to keep her alive for over two months? Then this lawyer, 21 months later, smells a lawsuit....

[MotleyGirl70]

If I didn't eat for two months, I don't think I could get down to 85lbs. That's the size of a ten year old boy. And this women, as stated, was "plump".

[usadave]

The most extreme use of the "blame the victim" defense strategy ever! This woman will end up owning that storage facility and its operators.

Not if the woman was violating the terms of her contract with the storage facility. Clearly, she was living in the storage unit that she was renting, and I don't believe that particular use of the storage unit is permitted under most storage facility rental contracts.

[MotleyGirl70]

Don't you just love how this little bit of info was added to the story...

sporting fingernails several inches long that curl back into her palms

I really, really needed to know this!

Besides fingernails only grow a little bit per month. She must have already had claws to start with.

[Ronaldus Magnus]

Not if the woman was violating the terms of her contract with the storage facility.

No private entity has the right to imprison anyone, regardless of any contract violation.

Clearly, she was living in the storage unit that she was renting,

Unless you have some personal connection to this case other than this short article your assertion is completely unfounded. Neither of us knows the facts of this case and we are both completely unqualified to make such a rash statement. Please don't be so quick to pass judgment without the facts, you may be asked to be on a jury someday and rushing to such unsubstantiated conclusions could end up compromising an otherwise sound verdict.

[MotleyGirl70]

You mean you don't find this sexy?

[NonValueAdded]

I think the owners are toast. Yes, she was probably living there in violation of the lease, but the guard locked the unit supposedly without checking inside. If the smell was so bad that firefighters had to use masks and it escaped out of a decon room at the hospital, what kind of hermetrically sealed unit was this? Answer, it wasn't. Why didn't anyone notice the smell and file a dead body report? Those are the negligence hooks that will sway a jury or make an insurance company settle.

Look for the cost of storage units to rise everywhere. Also sing out when you see the first warning label appear on the doors of units.