Sleeping Teen In Denver Became a Missing Person
Only in Denver could a teenager fall asleep in his family’s car, the car get towed, the family call the police to report a stolen vehicle, and suddenly, BAM! We’ve got ourselves a full blown kidnapping scare. No ransom note, no suspicious van with tinted windows, no criminal mastermind. Just a 13-year-old boy snoring in the backseat of a Honda, hauled off to an impound lot like yesterday’s leftovers. This isn’t some quirky sitcom subplot, it actually happened. The family wakes up to find their car missing, panic sets in, and they do what any logical parents would do: assume their kid has been kidnapped. Meanwhile, the boy is blissfully drooling on the seat cushions, completely unaware he’s the star of Denver’s weirdest news story of the week.
Here’s the real kicker: the car wasn’t stolen. It wasn’t hijacked. It wasn’t abducted by aliens. Nope, it was towed. Just scooped up by the city’s “hook and haul” brigade who apparently thought, “Why check the car first? Who needs due diligence when you can charge storage fees instead?” Because heaven forbid the tow truck driver actually glance inside the vehicle to see, oh I don’t know, a breathing human being sprawled across the backseat. That would’ve required effort, and maybe a shred of humanity. Instead, the boy got chauffeured, against his will (and still unconscious), straight to the municipal purgatory known as the impound lot. If you’ve never had the pleasure of retrieving a vehicle from one of these fine establishments, let’s just say it’s like visiting the DMV, except everyone’s angry and the tab at the end makes your stomach churn. Imagine explaining to the clerk: “Yes, I’d like to bail out my car...and also, my son.”
This fiasco shines a blinding spotlight on a bigger issue, how reckless, careless, and downright money hungry impound operations can be. Cars get snatched up like free prizes in a claw machine, and nobody’s checking if there’s a kid, a dog, or even a grandma knitting in the backseat. It’s all about the tow fee, the storage fee, the release fee...cha-ching! Meanwhile, actual human lives? Just background noise. Parents shouldn’t have to worry that their parked car could be whisked away in the dead of night with their child still inside. But thanks to sloppy procedures and zero accountability, that’s exactly what happened. Denver’s mistaken kidnapping scare wasn’t just some “oopsie.” It was a wake-up call. Let’s be honest: tracking down your towed car shouldn’t feel like unraveling a crime mystery. OUTPOUND.com exists for one reason, no, not to find a mistakenly kidnapped boy, but for you not to have to play detective when your car vanishes into the black hole of tow lots. You type in your info, and you know where your ride is. No frantic 911 calls. No wild goose chases. And hopefully, no accidental kidnapping scares.
So next time your car disappears, don’t assume it’s stolen or that your teenager has been whisked away by kidnappers. Odds are, it’s sitting in a lot somewhere, racking up storage fees. Skip the panic and the impound shuffle and head to OUTPOUND.com and save yourself from Denver level drama!
