BROOKLYN, NY—
A Queens man who lost his car for a week while it was covered by heavy snow from last week's blizzard, finally found it -- crushed and ripped apart -- right where he had parked it.Miguel Mena lives in Queens but had parked his car near his job in the Mapleton section of Brooklyn. When he couldn't find it he assumed it had been towed during the storm, but after checking impound lots his 1995 Nissan Altima didn't turn up.
After much of the snow melted, Mena decided to check Bay Parkway where he parked, and found his car -- shredded to pieces. Miguel believes his Altima was ripped apart by plows and crushed under the tons of snow, dumped on Bay Parkway. His would not be the only car carelessly smashed by Department of Sanitation plow operators. A Brooklyn resident's video of a snow plow driver dragging a second plow into multiple parked cars, stopping only to check on the plow's chain, became a hit on YouTube.
Mena, who relied on his car to make it to work, is crushed by his recent discovery. "(It's) very painful, and now I don't have money to get another car," Mena said, "I couldn't drive that day, I wasn't going to move my car no matter what they say, it was very dangerous," said Miguel.
A Sanitation Department spokesperson told PIX 11 News they will provide Miguel with the proper paperwork to file a claim.
