A Florida woman was pulled from a storm drain for the third time in two years final week.
The Delray Beach Police Department mentioned officers and firefighters responded to a report of a woman presumably in misery whereas swimming in a canal close to the five hundred block of Lindell Boulevard round midday on Wednesday. The division mentioned officers situated the woman, recognized as Lyndsey Jane Kennedy, and requested if she wanted assist.
Kennedy reportedly ignored them and climbed right into a storm drain pipe. Delray police mentioned she refused to come back out and started crawling farther into the culvert pipe, which crossed underneath Lindell Boulevard.
Firefighters had been capable of maintain Kennedy between two sections of pipe whereas the Delray Beach Fire Rescue Special Operations Team utilized a ladder and a rescue harness to drag her out.
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Lyndsey Kennedy was rescued from a storm drain for the third time on Jan. 18, 2023.
(Grand Prairie Police Department)
Kennedy appeared to have minor accidents and was handled on the scene earlier than being transported to a hospital for additional analysis.
Delray police mentioned the fireplace division beforehand rescued Kennedy from a storm drain in March 2021 after she had been lacking for three weeks.
According to native news shops on the time, Kennedy advised police she went swimming in a canal close to her boyfriend’s home on March 3, the identical night time her boyfriend reported her as lacking. While swimming, she mentioned she entered a doorway in the shallow a part of the canal and observed a tunnel. She continued following tunnels till she realized she was misplaced.
Kennedy was finally rescued close to the intersection of West Atlantic Avenue and SW eleventh Avenue after a woman referred to as 911 to report a woman yelling for assist from contained in the drain. She mentioned she had stopped strolling in that space as a result of she may see mild and folks strolling previous her.
The woman, who was 43 on the time, advised police she had been strolling in the sewer system for about three weeks. She additionally mentioned she had been residing off an unopened can of ginger ale she discovered in the drain whereas wanting for a approach out.
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Delray police mentioned Kennedy “appeared to be coherent” and did not have to be Baker Acted (involuntarily institutionalized). Police contacted her mom, who mentioned she has a historical past of psychological sickness, is a frequent consumer of unlawful narcotics and has a historical past of doing “odd things” and “making bad decisions.”
Before she disappeared, Kennedy’s members of the family mentioned she attended a Bible research together with her mom the place they discovered concerning the prophet Elijah taking a journey. The relations mentioned Kennedy wrote her mother a observe claiming she was planning on occurring her personal journey.
Despite that, the household mentioned they did not imagine her journey was meant to be in a storm drain.
She was reportedly listed as “endangered” on the sheriff’s workplace’s lacking individuals documentation, and a detective wrote in the report she went lacking “under similar circumstances” in April 2020.
Only a pair of scuffed, bloody knees might be seen on Lyndsey Kennedy, 43, earlier than she’s loaded onto a stretcher en path to a Florida hospital for medical remedy.
(Delray Beach Fire Rescue )
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Kennedy’s third rescue from the storm drain occurred in Grand Prairie, Texas, two months later in May 2021. Police in the city had been looking out for 4 days earlier than her mom and finest buddy discovered her at a canal.
In this occasion, she had reportedly wandered off from a rehab facility after checking in. When police noticed the woman close to a creek and started to method her, she went into a close-by storm drain, based on WPEC.
A monitoring app on her cellphone allowed her household to seek out her final location earlier than she disappeared underground. Before she was rescued, her household and associates reportedly dropped baggage of meals and Gatorade into manholes in the world.
A sewer opening in Delray Beach, Florida.
(Delray Beach Police Department)
Kennedy was reportedly arrested in Florida in July 2021 after a hit-and-run occurred when she sped off from a fuel station after stealing beer. She nearly ran over the shop’s clerk, who chased her exterior, then she ran a number of crimson lights earlier than crashing with a automotive.
Palm Beach County deputies mentioned she ran from the crash scene to an condo advanced, however workers led them to her.
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Kennedy’s passenger, who was injured, advised police she ran as a result of she did not have a driver’s license. Police mentioned her license had been suspended 17 instances from 2007 to 2020.