I like to peek in at the
Crime Library sometimes, to see what the Atheists have been up to lately.
Here's a pair that thought they'd safely ESCAPED God™s wrath....but
think again ! !
The postman always rings twice, as they say.
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Bizarre Accident:
Rescued Hikers Immediately Drive to Ocean Deaths
July 25, 2013 12:49 PM
A fun vacation in Maine turned treacherous, then deadly, for two women and their dog Wednesday who drowned after being rescued earlier while lost hiking.
Amy Stiner, 37, of Machias, Maine, and Melissa Moyer, 38, of Sunbury, Pennsylvania, were enjoying time off in the fair Pine Tree State, when they decided to go for a hike in Roque Bluffs State Park.
It seems, however, that the weather was not with them and they became lost in the rain and fog. The women called for help just before dark, since they had not yet found the way back to their car. They were rescued by an off duty fireman on an ATV, who found them on the park’s western shore, the Portland Press Herald reports. Their rescuer brought the women and their dog back to his house where they were picked up by a park warden, who drove them to their 2001 Dodge Caravan.
The women happily drove off thinking that the worst was behind them, but according to Washington County Sheriff Donnie Smith, when they left the parking lot, the driver took a right on Schoppee Point Road instead of a left. A left would have taken them back to Machias, where Stiner had lived for less than a year. The right turn, however, took them straight to the Pond Cove boat ramp that was concealed in the dark by rain and fog.
Smith said, “The end of the road becomes the boat landing and they just weren’t familiar with it. It was foggy and rainy and they literally drove off the boat landing right into the water. It’s just so easy to do. When I got the call last night, I knew what had happened.” It’s likely they didn’t even slow down.
One of the women was able to call 911 in time to say that they were in the water and that the car was filling with water before the phone died. According to Smith visibility was bad, “It’s pitch black — dark as a pocket and there’d be nobody there at that time of night and in that weather.”
It took deputies an hour to trace the general location of the phone from its GPS coordinates, locate the spot where the van had gone into the water, and find the van. At about 10 p.m. a searcher saw bubbles rising from the water about 175 yards from the shore. A scuba diver found the van about 20 feet deep, and the bodies of the two women and their dog inside.
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