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Car Towed Twice In 15 Days Before Anyone Noticed A Dead Body In The Back Seat
‘I Just Had A Bald Eagle Drop A Cat Through My Windshield’
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A motorist in western North Carolina escaped injury when the carcass of a cat crashed into the passenger side of her front windshield along a highway near the Great Smoky Mountains national park.
In a call to 911, the uniden- tified driver on US Route 74 in Swain county, near Bryson City, told a dispatch- er that a bald eagle dropped the cat. Bryson City is about 65 miles south-west of Asheville.
It’s not clear if the feline slipped from the eagle’s talons on Wednesday morn- ing or was discarded simply because the big bird didn’t have a taste for it.
“You may not believe me, but I just had a bald eagle drop a cat through my wind- shield,” the incredulous driv- er said on the recorded 911 call. “It absolutely shattered my windshield.”
Any reservations about call- ing in such a story were put to rest when the dispatcher calmly responded, “OK. I do
believe you, honestly,” then laughed.
The driver relayed that another person also saw the cat drop, remarking: “He’s like, ‘That is the crazi- est thing I’ve ever seen.’ I’m like, ‘Really?’”
The dispatcher offered some assurance, saying, “Oh my goodness. Let’s see. I’ve heard crazier.”
“Well, that’s terrifying,” the caller said, to which the dis- patcher replied with more nervous laughter: “Yeah.”
After getting the driver’s location, the dispatcher said she would send the high- way patrol to do a report. “Another question,” the dis- patcher asked. “Is the cat still alive?”
The caller said it wasn’t, but noted that the cat was on the side of the road and not in her car.
“OK, I have to ask just to make sure,” the dispatcher said.
By Alanea Cremen,
WOODBRIDGE, Va. — It took 15 days and two tows before anyone noticed a dead man in the backseat of a car in Woodbridge. Now, police are investigat- ing his death.
According to the Prince William County Police Department, an unnamed private towing company was contacted on Nov. 3 to remove a vehicle from the PS Business Park parking lot on PS Business Center Drive. The car was then towed and eventually trans- ferred to another tow lot in Fairfax County.
Fifteen days later, workers at the Fairfax County tow lot contacted police after noticing a dead body on the floor of the backseat.
Police have identified the body only as a 49-year-old man who had been report- ed missing on Nov. 1, two days before his car was towed from the business park parking lot.
The man's body was taken to the medical examiner’s office to confirm the identity and determine the cause and manner of death. Preliminarily, there does not appear to be any signs of foul play or a threat to the community.
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