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A true showcase for the joys of air travel, the Phoenix-based Arizona Republic reports that a "suspicious" unguarded rental car has shut down parts of Sky Harbor International Airport for four hours, delaying about 300 flights and canceling dozens of others. The driver finally got a parking quote and a $ 56 fine.
The Republic of Arizona said the driver, who had never been named by the police, "thought only a few minutes had passed" after leaving the rental car to help his girlfriend take his flight . He had no idea that the demining team was tearing the car apart as the airport had crowds of air travelers more annoyed than usual, waiting for the hundreds of flights they really needed to catch.
The time really eludes you when you delay several days of travel, is not it? Ah, how precious are the moments of life that are ephemeral.
The driver left a Nissan Sentra outside the Sky Harbor terminal and the Republic of Arizona said a witness had said the car had stayed there at least 25 minutes before police called a tow truck – whatever something that trucker Richard Polanco Jr. told the Republic of Arizona he had acted for nearly a decade in response to airport passengers who were leaving vehicles to find travelers who had left their identity or other personal effects in the car.
But the police suspended the tow when Polanco arrived, telling him that they had found a trace of something on the car. Polanco never understood what it was, he told the Republic of Arizona, but it was the beginning of a detention period of several hours for some parts of Terminal 4 of the airport. From the story:
Polanco said the officers told him to wait out of the call to tow the vehicle.
The Phoenix bombing team and a defusing robot spent the next four hours determining whether the car was unusable or was filled with explosives and intentionally planted at the terminal of one of the most expensive airports. frequented the country.
The Phoenix bombing team and a defusing robot spent the next four hours determining whether the car was unusable or was filled with explosives and intentionally planted at the terminal of one of the most expensive airports. frequented the country.
The Republic of Arizona reports that Polanco was able to tow the car only five hours later, with the windows broken and the trunk open. Polanco told the newspaper that Sentra's driver was still talking to the police when he hung up the car and offered him a ride on the phone during the ride that the police detained and interrogated him for several hours. hours.
Both spoke after hanging up, and the driver naturally felt like an idiot. From the Republic of Arizona:
"He was just disappointed that for something as small – a silly mistake he'd made – turned into a big deal," Polanco said.
He never thought of asking for the name of the man.
But if time is money, especially when you are wasting time with other people, it has not been very expensive.
The Arizona Republic reports that a spokesman for the Phoenix Police Department, Sgt. Tommy Thompson said on Sunday that the driver of the Sentra will probably have only one reference to the parking quote. And although the Republic of Arizona did not find out if the Sentra driver had to pay for towing or damage to the car, Thompson said the quote would probably cost $ 56.
We can all draw important lessons from this error, such as the fact that delaying huge portions of an airport for four hours from the outside costs about as much as the dinner for one person inside.
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