We've
all had trouble returning rental cars at airports, so
an elderly woman's mistake in Boise, Idaho, this week
might be easy to understand.
The unidentified woman got to Boise
Airport at around 6 a.m. Tuesday morning, so early that
no one was at the car-return counter to help her.
She drove around a bit more, looking
for another rental-car return, when she apparently spotted
a helpful sign another car, this time right inside
the passenger terminal.
So she drove her rented minivan up a
sidewalk handicapped ramp, through a pair of sliding-glass
doors, past the baggage-claim area and ended up at the
most logical place back at the walk-up rental-car
counter.
"She sees this car that we have
on display that was an advertisement and drove past
the baggage-claim devices, past the car and right up
to the front of the car-rental counter, and was there
to drop her car off," Boise Airport Director John
Anderson said to Boise's KTVB-TV.
Police and Transportation Safety Administration
personnel questioned the woman, but decided not to cite
her.
"The lucky thing is she didn't
hit anything," airport spokeswoman Larissa Stouffer
told The Idaho Statesman.
Anderson admitted the airport still
had some security issues to work out.
"It's a combination of something
that we have corrected short term, and then we will
correct long term, and we want to make sure nothing
like this happens, and then again you have to look at
the lighter side too," he told KTVB.
Stouffer told The Statesman that the
airport had planned to put in safety barriers at the
sliding door, but had not gotten around to it.
Later Tuesday, the door was blocked
with a large trashcan as a temporary measure, Stouffer
said.
The woman made her scheduled flight.
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