Driving home from work last Wednesday, I had the unpleasant experience of being carjacked. I was driving home, after work on Highway 45, when I saw a large brown dog running down the middle of the highway. I wondered where its owner was. A little farther, there was a much smaller white poodle cross-type dog, running from side to side on the highway, looking distressed, smelling the edges of the highway, trying to pick up a scent. This was at RR15. There was a semi oncoming, and a vehicle that looked like a small Jeep Wrangler, with an ivory-coloured hard top, parked on the south side of RR15, appearing to be waiting for the semi to go by. It was a two-tone, with an ivory top and a very dirty darker bottom, with only two tinted side windows. I stopped my SUV and the dog came over and I petted it. It was wearing a collar and was well-groomed but wet and dirty from the rain. I knew it belonged to someone who would be missing their dog. The semi went by, and then the dog took off back on the highway. A lady also in an SUV saw the dog running around in the middle of the highway and stopped, and the dog ran to her when she opened her door. I walked back to where she stopped, to tell her it was not my dog, and that I had just stopped to help it. The small Jeep drove past us slowly, heading east, then turned around, driving slowly up to where we were. I thought maybe this was their dog. They went right past us, onto where my SUV was parked on the side of the road, and a young man jumped out of the passenger side of the Jeep and into my vehicle, and that was the last I saw of my car, purse, phone and everything else in it. We followed my SUV while I used her phone to call my husband and 911. At RR20, they split with one vehicle going north and the other going south. In retrospect, it seemed like the dogs were used as bait to lure someone to stop and help them. I don’t think the dogs belonged to them, because the dog showed no interest in the jeep as it drove by. They may have taken someone else’s dogs. My husband went to look for the dogs and to see if they threw any of my things out but did not find the dogs or anything that belonged to me. The RCMP are on it, and although my silver, Hyundai Santa Fe 2012 is not located yet, I am sure they will get to the bottom of it.
A lot of people want to know how I am. So far, I am doing ok, sad that I lost the camera, my kids got me for Christmas and used it almost every day for all my social media posts for my business. The back seat was loaded with fabric and blind samples, as I had been out on appointments and had not taken them out of my vehicle yet, so that is a lot of money lost, to something that is of no use to anyone else but me. The hatchback was full of my tools for installing drapery and blinds, and all sorts of drapery rod components, so that was also a sad loss, but of course, these are just things, and everything is replaceable. My well-worn bible that I have had for many decades, full of underlining and notes was sadly in my vehicle as well as my winter coat, my raincoat, and my favourite spring coat plus much more. It’s an abrupt lesson in letting go.
I want to thank everyone that shared the post and expressed concern. From the many Facebook shares, one lady recognized what appeared to be my car, driving into their rural yard within a day. I pray these individuals involved will have an intervention, whatever that looks like, to make a positive change to do something more worthwhile with their lives.
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