911 What is Your Emergency?

Yesterday I had the gymnastics carpool and what a drive it turned out to be.  JJ had spent the night at a friends house who is also on the team, so she was going to meet us there.  I still had to pick up E and get Nina to her class.  When I got to E’s house I realized I had forgotten JJ’s grip bag.  I know her well enough to know that I was going to be in some serious mom trouble if I didn’t go back to the house to get the grips even if it meant getting to the gym late.  I told E that we were now “Even Steven”  since JJ had to leave practice early last week due to E getting sick one her mom’s night to drive.

On the way back to our house from E’s I noticed a man pulled over on the side of the road.  He was standing with the trunk open and getting ready to put something inside.  The next thing I know as I pass by,  is two ARMS taking the object from him.  Yes the arms were attached to a person who was INSIDE the trunk!  Then the man shut the trunk and pulled onto the road right behind me.

Still is shock of what I had just seen I called a friend.  I told her what I just saw.  She said “call 911″.  I sorta thought that was what a normal person would do but I guess I just needed the boost back into the normal world (where people aren’t riding in trunks).

I had turned the corner and wasn’t sure if the guy was behind me anymore and because I was so focused on the person in the trunk the only thing I could remember about the car was that it was white. 

Looking in the rear-view mirror I saw that  he was still behind me.

I have now instructed the children to see if they can read his plate # while I call it in.  The man had gotten so close to me that we couldn’t read the plate # but I knew that he was in a white Saturn.  The call went something like this:

911 Operator:  911 what is your emergency?

Me:  Yes I am driving on ……… road and the man driving behind me has a person in his trunk.  He had his trunk open on …… park rd. as I passed by him and I saw the person in the trunk take something from him before he shut the trunk and continued down the road.  I am not sure if this is a college prank or what.  No one looked stressed out about the situation.

911 Operator:  Which way are you headed on ……. road?

Me:  Towards the ………… road and ……….. road intersection.  We are approaching the stop sign now.

911 Operator:  What type of car is he driving?

Me:  A White Saturn but we can’t get the plate number as he is too close to our van.

911 Operator:  Is he still behind you?

Me: Yes but he is going to turn at the intersection the opposite way.  He will be heading towards ……….. road.

911 Operator:  Thank you mam we have put out the call.  What is your name please?

 

Oh yeah I told her my name, yes I know she only wanted it so that they could use it when they talk about the crazy lady who saw a living person willing travel in the trunk of the Saturn.

When I got to the gym one of the Dad’s who happens to be the Chief of Police  got a good chuckle out of my experience and reminded me that everyone should have a “Car Thing” .  Those of you my age and older will giggle at that as you remember watching  “The Adams Family”  from way back when. 

I asked if he knew how my story ended.  Did they find the car?  Was there indeed a passenger in the truck? 

No such luck.  He knew nothing besides a call had been put through about a car with a person in the trunk.

I still think my call to poison control about Moe brushing his teeth with Icy Hot takes the cake…. but this too was one of those strange things that only I could encounter.