damn Candians!!!!! * cant be the tow truck driver's fault*

[Mr.LaBella]

Police mistakenly impound driver with car


TORONTO (Reuters) - An 85-year-old Canadian man spent hours inside his impounded car in freezing temperatures after his vehicle was ticketed for illegal parking and then towed to a police compound, police said on Thursday.


Police in the western city of Edmonton, Alberta, said frost had obscured the car's windows and a tow-truck driver, unaware of the elderly man sitting in the driver's seat, took the car to the police compound. The incident occurred Tuesday.


"The security officer at that site along with the tow-truck driver noticed that there was some movement in the car," said Edmonton Police spokeswoman Lisa Lammi.


"They accessed the vehicle and sure enough there was an elderly man inside. He was disoriented but he was not unconscious."


Temperatures were close to -10 Celsius (14 Fahrenheit).
According to the Edmonton bylaw office, the ticket was written two hours before the car arrived at the impound lot.
The man, whose identity has not been released, was taken to hospital for observation.


Lammi said police were unsure what stopped the man from driving his car away.

[WT351]

At least they didn't have the guy die in it....then slap a few tickets on it....

[RoadFish]

That is funny, but not that out of the ordinary. I have flat-bedded a few cars with occupants off of the freeway. It usually happened when the vehicle had more occupants than I could put in the tow truck cab and the CHP allows this to get people off of the roadside. Normally it is a short run off the highway. I once traded trucks with my boss to take an already loaded Jeep from Lebec on the 5 to a dealer in down on La Brea in L.A.. When I got to the dealer at 2 AM and was lowering it off of the bed, I heard someone yelling! There were two drunk passengers in the Jeep that my boss failed to tell me about! Thank god that they didn't wake up and try to get out of the Jeep while I was cruising down the freeway!!

[bfm]

There were two drunk passengers in the Jeep that my boss failed to tell me about! Thank god that they didn't wake up and try to get out of the Jeep while I was cruising down the freeway!!

I disagree, I would have paid good money for a video of them doing that.

[Markous]

Good thing he didn't stay in there overnight it got down to -18c here last night in Edmonton.