Wierd Truck Stop Happening

[puffy]

This truck stop is a few minutes from my house.My son parks his truck there when he comes home.I've been there many times to pick him up..Now the story..In December a man in New Jersey rented a truck and headed south.Him and the truck vanished never to be seen again.Until two days ago that is.Someone at the truck stop noticed that a rental had been parked there for a long time.He opened the truck door and found the man inside dead.The police say that he has probably been in the truck dead all this time...Pretty Spooky

 

[jchaplick]

Huh, I smell Government Cover up....Mwahahahahaaaa!!!

 

[jaysin]

it sat there that long and no one noticed the attendents ect

 

[markw4mms]

They don't sound very observant at that place at all.

 

[ssjones]

Lots of bad things go down at truck stops, keep your wits about you.

Most of the "attendants" I encounter are trying to do mostly nothing and get away with it, keen observation is not their strong suit.
My worst travel fear was realized by a businessman at a PA Turnpike travel stop a few years ago. He didn't feel well, pulled in and had a heart attack. He was unconscious for two days in the car, which was running. No one noticed. His family, who didn't really know his travel route started looking for him and put out an alert. The State Police found him, fortunately, he lived. Reminder - always tell the wife which part of the East Coast I'm driving to...

 

[spyder71]

When I was a driving I heard these stories all over the place. Some of these truck stops are quite large and makes it easy for a truck to sit for days at a stop unnoticed. I can see someone having a stroke or heart attack in their sleeper and lay there for days. A lot of these fellas are a heart attack on wheels, and lots of them have no family to tell where they are. It's really sad to think that a persons passing could go unnoticed for days on end.

 

[schmitzbitz]

It's really sad to think that a persons passing could go unnoticed for days on end.

Sad, but completely unsurprising given our propensity to ignore the plight of strangers (unless they are presented to us on the six-o'clock news, of course). We've trained ourselves to look the other way when we see an addict passed out on a bench or a hooker on the corner in a seedy neighbourhood; but unfortunately this has desensitized us to so much more.

Not too long ago, a middle-aged businessman slipped into a diabetic low, ranting for a period before slipping into the dreaded coma, on a busy Sky-train (rapid transit) platform in a suburb of Vancouver during rush-hour. He lay there for several hours, with people stepping around him all the while...fortunately he survived when someone finally did stop, but it just goes to show how good we've become at ignoring those around us.

 

[wnghanglow]

This is why I like living in Oklahoma, last year my car got a flat on the highway, 2 different police stopped to offer assistance, a pedestrian stopped to let me use there phone, and the AAA guy even stopped by a store to buy me a tire so I didn't have to pay his towing fees. I am a bit scared to go to a place like New York I am always hearing about these horror stories.