Posted on 02/27/2023 4:30:31 PM PST by grundle
Two missing women were found safe after spending four nights in their car in the frigid Maine woods, officials say.
Game wardens said they rescued Kimberly Pushard, 51, and Angela Bussell, 50, around 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 26, four days after the women were last seen. The women were in Pushard’s Jeep Compass near Nicatous Lake in Hancock County.
Pushard and Bussell were first reported missing Wednesday, Feb. 22, Topsham Police Chief Marc Hagan said in a news conference Friday, Feb. 24, that was shared by WCSH.
The pair left home on Tuesday to go to the Maine Mall in South Portland to go bowling, their families said, according to Hagan. Both women have intellectual disabilities, he said.
Family members said Pushard and Bussell called them later on Tuesday asking for directions home because they had ended up in Massachusetts, Hagan said during the news conference. The women started driving home and were spotted in Exeter, New Hampshire, where they had several interactions with police and other law enforcement officers.
Hagan said officials who saw the women in New Hampshire offered them directions home, but at the time the women did not appear to be distressed or anxious. The pair were last seen on Wednesday morning in Springfield, Maine.
They stopped at a gas station in Springfield around 10 a.m., according to security footage, the Department of Inland Fisheries and Wildlife said in a news release. More video footage showed Pushard’s Jeep outside a bargain store in Lincoln, Maine, around 10:30 a.m. and later on Route 155 traveling south.
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Being women, wouldn’t they ask for directions?
Or did the navigation system demand they turn NOW and drive into the forest?
You can’t get thair from hair. You’ll hafta go someplace else and start over. Ya heer?
I’m confident that both these women are regular voters.
Obviously they need a little more watchfulness; maybe a GPS locator on their vehicle. Also maybe one of those button things like on TV that call a service when in a predicament.
How many masks were they wearing?
Not sure letting two people who have "intellectual disabilities" go out driving by themselves was the smartest move by their families.
If they only owned an electric car they wouldn’t had been dependent on fossil fuel!
“Searching for girlfriend. Send picture of boat…”
I can honestly say that for me, in my own car, that would merely have been a pleasant adventure.
My winter car kit is set up to easily remain comfortable for 5 days at below zero, it includes good lighting, books and entertainment, and even plenty of booze and morning coffee, car clothes, and get wet in the snow clothes and boots, etc.
They’re verrrry fortunate to even be alive.
I know that country where they were found like the back of my hand. Born, raised, hunted and fished there for years with my father as a kid. That area where they were found is outright fricken’ brutal even in the summertime. It’s the country that’s sung about in the song: “Tombstone Every Mile” song by Dick Curless....LOL.
FWIW, we still have family that live near there. Two weeks ago this past Saturday, they had a nice little 23 mph breeze straight out of the NE, -16 degrees below zero, with a -45 degree chill factor. Two 50-year old women without a clue wouldn’t last long in it. They’re lucky.
If only they had had an electric car they would not have run out of gas.
“If they only owned an electric car they wouldn’t had been dependent on fossil fuel!”
And when it randomly burst into flames, it would’ve kept them toasty warm while stranded in the Maine woods!
Winter camping, more fun than bowling. Better preparation is needed however.
If it was their families. I wont tell you about some of the decisions made by the professional guardians that Ive worked with that generally make decisions for these people until youve gone and put on some Depends. Youre gonna need it.
Nothing shocks us any more.
Sickens yes, shocks no.
Yeah this is a weird one.
I would say a tracker on the car might be a good idea.
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