stranded on the side of the road
By TheRealDawn
@dawnald (85137)
Shingle Springs, California
March 8, 2010 10:53pm CST
Traffic was kind of slow coming home today. I got about halfway between the Folsom and Prairie City exits on the 50 and there was a motorcycle cop on the side with his lights on. I thought he had pulled somebody over, but then I saw two people standing there, no vehicle. I thought maybe they had gone off the side. But nope, no sign of anything like that. Just two women standing on the side of the freeway with a clothes hamper and a motorcycle cop. I wonder if some idiot dumped them and their stuff off and just left them. It was cold and windy too and they weren't dressed all too warmly. Maybe there was a vehicle and I didn't see it, but I'm suspecting an act of jerkdom. Anyway, I hope things work out ok for them. I've never seen anything quite like that on the side of the road though. You?
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@GardenGerty (169439)
• United States
9 Mar 10
Wow, that is kind of a sobering sight. I am glad that there was a cop who was able to come along and get them some help. No chance it will be on the nightly news is there? You are going to let us know if you learn anything about it aren't you?
@TigerSpirit (320)
• Australia
9 Mar 10
Maybe they just felt like walking home from the laundromat?
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@TigerSpirit (320)
• Australia
9 Mar 10
You're most welcome :)
So how long was the length of freeway where they were found? where was the nearest cross street?
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@Celanith (2327)
• United States
9 Mar 10
Well maybe they had a cell phone and called for help if someone did dump them off, sounds strange to me. If it was a a call for help the motorcycle cop would not be of much help to them. How would he carry two women and a clothes hamper. Odd.
@Hatley (163772)
• Garden Grove, California
10 Mar 10
hi dawnald oh thats so true here on the ca freeways some drive way past any limits and people have been killed while on foot here. a policeoffice writing out a ticket was hit and left to die by the woman who lived int the next apartment to us, as she said she thought she had just run over a dog,also she was drunk and driving on an expired license so she was really in trouble. the police got her license and followed home. I was stranded on the landing next to her apt as I had forgotten my key and neither my son or my husband was home so I had to sit and wait., So I got a lot more than I bargained for as the police officer stood on the other half of the l anding as he talked to her. I had to explain that I had no place to go til one of my faMily came home. then he asked me some questions about when did she come home, as I had seen her stagger in and drop her keys several times. she lied to the cop as the time I gave him and the time she said was way different. he gave her a breathalyzer test and he really didn't need to as she stank of booze. then her daughter came home and raised holy hell, and finally the cop had to call for backup and he ended up arresting both of them. by then my son got home and let me in. then I had to tell him what was going on. the daughter could have saved being arrested if she had not started beating on the cop and calling him a liar. How that woman did not get picked up earlier is beyond me. I was out walking earlier that day and saw her car
weaving all over the road, and there was not a phone anywhere around or I would have called the police.
weaving all over the road, and there was not a phone anywhere around or I would have called the police.1 person likes this
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
10 Mar 10
Thank goodness they didn't hurt anybody else before they got arrested!
@ronaldinu (12422)
• Malta
9 Mar 10
I hope that the cop has taken good care of the two women stranded on the side of the road. The only similar experience I can recall is when I was on holiday in Tunisia in 1994. It was around 9.30pm I was outside the hotel and I saw a young boy no bigger than 5 or 6 selling flowers. I thought it was strange to leave a five year old boy stranded alone selling flowers at that time of the night. I think that his parents owned a grocery nearby so they must have kept an eye on him. But leaving a five year old selling flowers at 9.30pm in the night is something that kept me thinking!
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@TigerSpirit (320)
• Australia
10 Mar 10
That's child endangerment as it puts him at risk of being taken and molested!!
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@bunnybon7 (50970)
• Holiday, Florida
9 Mar 10
yes it was likely a jerk. or else maybe he was waiting with them for a car and the tow truck had already taken theirs or the guy and the vehicle had been taken by police. one time we picked up a very young teen walking along side of the road crying. she said her date had just dropped her off there because she didnt want to give him what he wanted
now thats a real jerk. i had them drop me home mad a couple times but luckily not out on the road.
@gabs8513 (48686)
• United Kingdom
19 Mar 10
Lol not getting caught up that fast lol
This thing is so slow but better then nothing
Gissi is doing a bit better today he is certainly breathing better and a bit more Life in him
I am hoping that he is going to proof the Vet wrong lol and stay about years
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@jennybianca (12912)
• Australia
9 Mar 10
It does sound very odd. I cant imagine why there were there with no car. I wonder if their car broke down and got carted away, leaving these two people stranded there.
Or an idiot taxi dropped them there? Or just as likely, whoever they were travelling with dumped them.
I wonder what happened to them eventually?
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
9 Mar 10
Didn't see anything in the paper. Maybe the local news online...
@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
9 Mar 10
Nope, can't say as I have. Have you found out anything more about it?
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@BarBaraPrz (51811)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
9 Mar 10
Too bad. It certainly makes one go "Hmmm..."
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@zed_k4 (17589)
• Singapore
10 Mar 10
Poor souls.. I wonder why they were stranded there too. Looks like they were there because someone might have left them or that they were abandoned or something.. let's hope that they are safe and sound now. Clothes hamper..that really says something, wonder what that's about too.
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@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
10 Mar 10
That's why I thought they might have been dumped there. If they had been in a car that was towed, you'd think they'd leave it in the car...
@ANTIQUELADY (36440)
• United States
9 Mar 10
no, can't say as i have but no telling what was going on w/them. Seems as if alot of strange things happen nowadays.
@chrystaltears (3392)
• United States
9 Mar 10
Sounds like maybe they were hitchhiking and that's as far as the picker upper could go, so he put them by the call box. Bless 'em.
@vandana7 (102698)
• India
22 Mar 10
Long ago, I did see a young girl working alone in a field - quite late in the afternoon. Possibly rest of the people had gone home for lunch and siesta, or possibly she was herself there to steal. Not far after i saw her, I spotted a group of youngsters in a boisterous mood. I was young, and had seen too many movies I suppose, I feared for the girl. I did try to tell the driver to reverse the car that I was traveling in. But Dad said we were getting late. I couldnt voice my fears as it would look quite stupid. But I did fear for that girl, and hoped god would look after her.
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@bounce58 (17380)
• Canada
9 Mar 10
That is indeed strange if there were no cars for these two people on the side of the road. And I bet you're right that it could have been an act of 'jerkdom'.
I wouldn't worry about not dresses too warmly. I bet the hamper they were carrying had the warm clothes if they needed it.
...I wonder if they were just drying the clothes. I bet it does get dry quicker out on the freeway!
@dawnald (85137)
• Shingle Springs, California
9 Mar 10
We have a lot of homeless people nearer to downtown, male and female, but I've never seen anything like this.
