There are a lot of interesting things that fly by your window when you’re on a long road trip in a car.
Sometimes these things are beautiful, like rural terrain in the Smoky Mountains, but sometimes it can be upsetting. Nothing is as disturbing as thinking you see something horrific in the distance and driving closer only to discover that what you hoped you didn’t see is actually a reality.
This is precisely what happened to animal control officer Nicole Hubbard, as she drove north through Georgia on Interstate 95 while on her way back from a vacation in Florida with her boyfriend. Ahead of her she saw an SUV on the highway going about 70 miles-per-hour towing something strange that was attached to its rear bumper. She didn't want to believe it, but as she got closer, her worst fears came true.
Fortunately, it took a hero like Nicole to be in the right place at the right time…
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What Nicole had spotted was a pet crate attached to rear bumper of a Dodge Durango. “We thought, ‘Surely, they don’t have a dog in the back of it,’ ” she said. “But when we got up next to it, there the dog was.” Inside was a frightened pup, believed to be
What alarmed Nicole even more was that, when she finally confirmed that the horrific sight she thought she saw was in fact a reality, she checked her temperature gauge. It read 94 degrees outside.
“(The temperature) was climbing the whole time,” she said. Not only that, but the carrier was connected near the SUV’s exhaust pipe and the dog clearly had no water to drink on the hot day.
She quickly alerted the state highway patrol. They told her an officer would be dispatched to stop the vehicle.
“We stayed behind them, and no officer ever came,” she said. After a while, she called back and she was told that cops couldn’t respond. “They said they just don’t have an officer to send,” Nicole recalled.
That’s when the determined couple decided to trail the SUV for two hours until it crossed the South Carolina line. That’s when Nicole called their highway patrol. “They were wonderful,” she said.
An operator kept Nicole on the phone until help arrived. When a highway cop was dispatched, he pulled over the SUV and Nicole was relieved.
“I was just amazed that somebody could be that uneducated of the dangers with that dog being there,” she said. “Hopefully, they learned something from it.”
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