14 DAY TRIAL // One Texas woman is making international headlines after willingly not leaving the car she crashed into a dairy wastewater pond because it was a rental and she had been told not to leave it “if stranded.”
Lynn S. Keesler, 61 asked for directions from a sheriff deputy, telling him she was looking for hotels in Burley, Fox News informs.
She was either unintentionally misguided or misunderstood the deputy's directions and, after a wrong turn, crashed her car on the side in a dairy wastewater pond.
While any other person would have walked out of the car, which landed on the side but did not seem to suffer terrible damage (the Daily Mail has photos), Keesler stayed in the car for about 7 days, by all indications.
Apparently, when she signed for the rental, she was instructed not to leave the vehicle “if stranded,” so she made sure she did exactly so.
During that time, Keesler survived on M&Ms and water. She only left the crashed car when water started to fill the pond and, consequently, the vehicle.
“The Cassia County report said Keesler believed she had been stranded for three to five days, but the sheriff's log shows a deputy gave her directions to the hotels in Burley on Jan. 15. She walked to a nearby house for help on Jan. 22,” Fox News says.
“Keesler told deputies that after getting directions, she saw water by a dairy and thought it was the Snake River. She told deputies she tried to drive around the outside of the water but got stuck in the mud,” adds the publication.
For the entire first night she was stranded, Keesler flashed her headlines until the battery died. In the following days, she would honk the horn whenever she could get it to power up.
When police arrived on the scene, the pond was filled and the car wasn't visible anymore, Fox News notes.
The woman declined medical help, saying she only wanted a “warm bed and a bath.”