Why are we not surprised—but nevertheless outraged—to hear the story of Martena Clinton, who attended a presidential gala over the weekend, parked her car in a spot a police officer told her was legit, later discovered it had been moved for security purposes, and was ultimately told by D.C. police the car was nowhere to be found?
As reported by Shankar Vedantam in the Washington Post,
It should have been simple for Clinton to find her car—police told her that relocated vehicles are typically towed to different spots within a few blocks—but this time police had not kept track of where they had moved it. The Lexus was lost.
District police searched for the car for two hours Saturday night, circling the neighborhood again and again…. By 1:30 a.m., police had searched a one-mile radius of the convention center and found not a trace of the car.
At the very least, police got her a room at a nearby hotel (though of course she paid the $165 rate herself). But the following morning, the police weren’t much help—keep in mind Clinton was still wearing the gown from the night before and would normally be taking her 95-year-old mother to church.
The article continues,
Amazingly, Tiggle found the car—it was just around the corner from where Clinton had parked it.
Again, not surprised, but nevertheless outraged.
