I’m so stressed.
On Energy’s airwaves, during the Midday Fun show, Marie-Claude Savard recently shared a personal anecdote in which she revealed she had been the victim of a car theft.
The scene unfolded on a Monday evening as she was headed downtown for dinner with a friend. It was barely 6 p.m.—really early—and she parked, unaware of what would unfold.
She notes that the street seemed unusually lively and chaotic, but she still decided to park there.
“I had the presence of mind to tell myself: This looks a little risky,” she recalls.
She says the dinner with her friend went smoothly. But stepping out of the restaurant around 8 p.m., she had the unfortunate surprise of realizing her car was gone.
“Well, obviously, where is my car?” she asked herself.
What happened? Marie-Claude in detective mode
She explains that she then walked the street in every direction, trying to understand what had happened. She would even knock on the door of the nearby fire station, asking if they had seen her car, a white Bronco, but they would reply, unfortunately, no.
She says she then called to check whether her vehicle had been towed. But she was told that this make and model hadn’t been towed from the street where she had parked.
“I called the police. There, they told me: Wait on the corner of the street. After three-quarters of an hour, I tell Brigitte: Hey, I have the location app. Then I realize my car is six blocks away from there (…),” Savard recounts.
She says that at that moment, she barely restrained herself from sprinting off to find her car. Her friend tries to calm her down and suggests waiting, in case the thieves are still nearby. But she also thinks that waiting wouldn’t be better if they were already driving away with her vehicle.
The Turn of Events
“So there I refresh the app for five minutes, and then I’m too stressed. I tell her: Stay here, wait for the police. I’m going to go fetch my car. And then I thought: I should have witnesses for this. What if something happens to me? I text all my Midday Fun colleagues,” she recalls.
“I wrote: I’m in pursuit of the thieves who took my vehicle,” she testifies, as the team notes they began receiving her messages at 9:12 p.m. On the air, the hosts then start reading some of the texts sent by Marie-Claude, visibly distressed at that moment.
Finally, when she found her car, the door was unlocked and the driver’s seat had been moved. Yet there were no clear signs of a break-in.
The police eventually arrived on the scene, clearly unhappy that she had gone off to look for her car herself. And that’s basically how the story ended.
In the end, more fear than harm, but a night that left her shaken and stressed. Fortunately, it all ended without too much damage, but this story serves as a reminder of how vigilant you need to be when you leave your car, especially in downtown areas, in a busy stretch.
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