Just another day in Arizona: Family drove dead woman around Arizona in van with 35 animals

[Katashi_itto]

Police in Phoenix are investigating why the family of a woman drove her body around Arizona in a van full of animals and bugs.

According to KSAZ, Phoenix Police found 12 dogs, 22 cats, 1 pigeon and cockroaches inside of a van with the body of Lola Mae Stout. The animals were malnourished and covered in feces. Not all of them are expected to survive.

Court documents obtained by KSAZ indicated that conflicting statements were given by Lola Mae’s husband, Alva Stout, and her two sons, Alan and Gregory Stout.


One of the men indicated that the Lola Mae had been alive when they stopped for gas in Quartzsite.

But Alan Stout claimed that she had collapsed in Quartzsite. He said that they put her in the van anyway and then drove 120 miles to Phoenix.

The court documents said that Lola Mae had a history of strokes, high blood pressure, goiter, and schizophrenia.

The Arizona Humane Society has determined that most if not all of the animals will not recover and recommended that they be put down.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/07/16/family-drove-dead-woman-around-arizona-in-van-with-35-animals/

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. I'm inclined to think that's not normal anywhere.

[KarenS]

2. No,,, it's not normal, even tho it is Arizona,,,, n/t

[Tigress DEM]

5. Normal in Arizona... now there's an oxymoron

Add to the fine list of others like:

military intelligence
mildly psychotic
reasonable pharmaceutical costs
highly visible covert operation
and
deliberately thoughtless

[Ian David]

3. And after all that, Wally World was closed? n/t

[msanthrope]

7. Damn you!!! You beat me to it!!! (NSFW)

[NoPasaran]

4. This was funnier when Chevy Chase and Beverly D'Angelo did it

[R B Garr]

6. Sounds like the scenes from the movie Little Miss Sunshine

when they drove with the dead grandpa in the car. I think that family was from Arizona, too.


http://www.imdb.com/media/rm431985152/tt0449059?ref_=tt_ov_i

[pgr]

8. Another state of

Low life's! Even Florida and Texas wouldn't accept them (but Jan & Joe would, fer sure).

I added AZ to my boycott list many years ago