When Life Imitates National Lampoon's Vacation
 

Woman Drove for Days with Dead Mother in Car
Fri Apr 30, 2004 07:24 AM ET

MIAMI (Reuters) - An Oklahoma woman drove around for days with her mother's decomposing body in the passenger seat of her car, Florida investigators said on Thursday.

Sheriff's deputies found the woman's body on Tuesday in a car parked outside a Wal-Mart store in the northeast Florida city of Palm Coast. The medical examiner ruled the 65-year-old woman had died of natural causes at least five days earlier.

The woman's daughter, in her mid-30s, was inside the 24-hour store, where she had been shopping since the night before. She was incoherent and unable to give a clear account of her journey to Florida, Flagler County Sheriff's investigators said.

Police went to investigate when other shoppers complained about the odor coming from the parked car.

They traced the auto registration and pieced together details of the trip from receipts found in the car.

The women had lived together in Covington, Oklahoma, and left there several weeks ago. They traveled through Texas and North Carolina on the 1,300-mile trip to Florida, the investigators said. It was not clear if the mother died at a stop-off or in the car.

The daughter was hospitalized for psychiatric examination. No charges were filed because the mother's death was from natural causes. No further details were available.


http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.j...1&section=news

that is so sad i feel for the lady.:(

*jaw drops*

What the hell.....?
I'm surprise that the daughter didn't soffocate because of the odor.

the news keep on getting strang-er every day.

well if ya roll down the windows once you get moving it isnt bad :p

ok ok ... thats hella creepy... it would be interesting to hear an interview with the daughter

Very strange... but I guess the psycological condition of the daughter explains why she left the mother in the car. 1,300 miles can do strange things to people, I guess...

huh... I honestly want to know what was going through that woman's head. I mean, she was shopping in a Wal-mart since the night before according to the article... so wouldn't her being in a store for some 6 hours be kinda strange?

That's just nutty. I think someone's making this stuff up, just putting the craziest things they can think up on paper.

ANyone else laugh at the walmart quote.. "where she had been shopping since the night before" My word.

I know--it seems weird that the manager wasn't informed of this odd customer. What would a woman who just had a mental breakdown shop for anyway?

I wonder what type of drugs she was on. Honestly, 5 days!?! If someone doesn't move or eat. You can't be that dumb to notice when someone is dead.

Maybe they were shopping for shoes.

Huge effort.

Can take days.

One had stamina.

One didn't.

naw... there's a simple enough explaination for all of this:


she was in a hurry and wanted to use the carpool lane.

Road trip!

Marbles of course! Sense she had lost hers. :p

Straws, whiteout, tin foil, batteries size A, chicken wire, coat hangers.

that makes a lot more sense... she is not crazy... she is just impatient.

Yall seem surprised to hear about something strange. Personally, I'd be surprised to hear something that isn't strange with all those news being all about strange shits these days...

First, dead employee thought to be "sleeping" on the floor and now this...

How does this emulate national lampoon's vacation?!
Disturbing news though.

Less like Lampoon's, more like Weekend at Bernies.

All she wanted was company.

was there also, by chance, a leash tied to the back bumper???
:D

The grandma in national lampoon's vacation dies in the back seat of the Grizwald's station wagon, and they drive around for a while before they notice she is dead.

Umm... because in the movie the old woman dies in the car while they're on a road trip and they transport her somewhere... while she's dead.

She was prolly in walmart to buy a shit load of those tree air fresheners to hang off the corpse *more funny if you picture it*


/bad joke

noooooo, not Aunt Edna!!!!!!