Woman Rents Car Without Insurance and Has Vehicle Stolen During Trip: “A Horror Movie”

Three years ago, Julia traveled to Charleston, South Carolina, for a trip. There, she rented a car but decided not to purchase extra insurance. “What’s the worst thing that could happen?”, she said at the beginning of the clip posted on her TikTok profile.

On the very first night, Julia said that a man walked past them and she suddenly felt that something bad was going to happen. Out of nowhere, he collapsed on the ground, leaving Julia and her mother completely shaken.

“I called my husband and said, ‘I want to go home. I think something bad is going to happen. I just don’t want to stay here anymore,’” she recalled.

The next day brought even more shocking events. Julia and her mother were enjoying the sunny day at the hotel pool when, suddenly, her mother fell right after standing up to take a walk.

“She fell. I went to help her get up. Her knee was gone, guys—literally shattered. It looked like a horror movie scene,” Julia said.

Julia, who admitted she doesn’t handle emergency situations very well, started screaming for help. The hotel staff was inside, so she panicked while running back and forth gathering her mother’s belongings, as her mother was still in her swimsuit.

When the ambulance finally arrived, her mother decided to just get a bandage and take the first flight the next morning instead of undergoing surgery in Charleston. Julia spent the rest of the day caring for her mother and preparing to go home the next day.

But the chaos wasn’t over yet: when Julia went downstairs with her mother, who was in a wheelchair, along with all their luggage, their rental car was no longer in the spot where she had parked it.

After walking around the parking lot, Julia called her sister for help, and her sister suggested pressing the key fob button to see if she could hear the alarm.

But when Julia opened her bag, she realized she had lost the car key. She concluded that while panicking during her mother’s accident, she must have left the keys behind near the pool area.

Julia then called the police to report the missing vehicle. “The first thing the officer told me over the phone was that the car had just been reported as involved in a three-vehicle accident, a head-on collision, and that someone had died.”

An investigator arrived and informed Julia that although her car wasn’t the one in which someone had died, it was still missing, and the police did not know where the driver had gone.

So Julia and her mother had to take a trolley to the airport so they wouldn’t miss their flight. “I gave my mom a Xanax, a painkiller, two glasses of wine, kissed her on the forehead, and prayed that this would be the cocktail that would make her sleep through the entire trip home.”

Four days after arriving home, Julia received a call from the investigator saying they had arrested the suspect in the theft and accident. The rental car was found severely damaged, parked o