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BY JENNIFER SINCO KELLEHER
STAFF WRITER
November 30, 2004
Customers who walked up to Mr. Video in Oakdale yesterday seemed bewildered to find the store in shambles. The scene seemed straight out of a movie: glass and twisted metal mixed with toppled shelves and crushed display boxes.
"It looks like someone drove a car through here," one man said, dropping off a video tape in a plastic crate being used as a temporary return bin.
He was right.
Just as the store opened for the day at about 11 a.m., an elderly woman lost control of her car and plowed through the store, taking down the Action, Horror and Comedy displays before coming to rest just before the New Releases, sparing "Elf," "The Stepford Wives" and the latest installment of "Lord of the Rings."
Hazel Lodwig, 84, of Oakdale had been trying to brake but hit the accelerator, Suffolk Police Fifth Precinct Sgt. Kurt Paschke said.
Lodwig told police her foot slipped. "She was probably a little confused as to where her foot was," Paschke said.
Once inside the store, "She made a left at the DVD section," co-owner Joe Ranone said. About 3,000 DVD display boxes were flattened.
An ambulance took Lodwig to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore to be treated for neck pain, Paschke said. She told police she was wearing her seat belt.
Paschke said no summonses were issued. Lodwig could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The car went about 50 feet into the 80-foot store, narrowly missing Ranone's wife Catherine, who was turning off the store's alarm system.
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STAFF WRITER
November 30, 2004
Customers who walked up to Mr. Video in Oakdale yesterday seemed bewildered to find the store in shambles. The scene seemed straight out of a movie: glass and twisted metal mixed with toppled shelves and crushed display boxes.
"It looks like someone drove a car through here," one man said, dropping off a video tape in a plastic crate being used as a temporary return bin.
He was right.
Just as the store opened for the day at about 11 a.m., an elderly woman lost control of her car and plowed through the store, taking down the Action, Horror and Comedy displays before coming to rest just before the New Releases, sparing "Elf," "The Stepford Wives" and the latest installment of "Lord of the Rings."
Hazel Lodwig, 84, of Oakdale had been trying to brake but hit the accelerator, Suffolk Police Fifth Precinct Sgt. Kurt Paschke said.
Lodwig told police her foot slipped. "She was probably a little confused as to where her foot was," Paschke said.
Once inside the store, "She made a left at the DVD section," co-owner Joe Ranone said. About 3,000 DVD display boxes were flattened.
An ambulance took Lodwig to Southside Hospital in Bay Shore to be treated for neck pain, Paschke said. She told police she was wearing her seat belt.
Paschke said no summonses were issued. Lodwig could not be reached for comment yesterday.
The car went about 50 feet into the 80-foot store, narrowly missing Ranone's wife Catherine, who was turning off the store's alarm system.
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