During the latest episode of Live with Kelly and Mark, host Kelly Ripa explained how she accidentally locked her dog inside a car and had to call 911 for assistance. Ripa detailed how a weekend trip turned into 20 minutes of intense panic.
Kelly Ripa details calling 911 after car incident with dog
Kelly Ripa detailed an eventful occurrence that had her panicked for 20 minutes in the latest episode of Live With Kelly and Mark, saying the experience felt like “three years.”
“I was debating whether or not I should talk about it,” said Ripa as she recalled her recent trip to Palm Springs, California, where she purchased some “amazing dates” at a local street festival.
“We’re gonna walk the street festival. We’re gonna have the time of our lives,” Ripa shared, noting that her dog, Lena, was a big hit at the festival. “She made friends. She was like, ‘I’m a California girl now!’ She was prancing down the street. Typically, she’s very afraid of large groups of people and other dogs, but Thursday night, no,” she recalled, “She was like, ‘This is who I am now. I am Palm Springs Lena. I have dog friends. I’m not afraid of people. I love it here.’”
After buying the dates, she returned to her car parked near a casino and placed Lena in the passenger seat. As she walked to the other side, she realized that the car doors were locked. Her phone, keys, and Lena were all locked inside the car.
She flagged a man down to help her. “He looks just as afraid of me as I am of the van. And I say, ‘I’m sorry. That is my car — I lied, it’s my husband’s car — That is my car. I locked the keys, my human dog, and my phone inside the car.’ I said, ‘My human dog,’ because they need to understand this is more than a dog, this is a person,” she said.
She went on to call 911 from the man’s phone. “I’m like, ‘Hi. I’m in the parking garage at the casino, and I have locked my human dog, my phone, my keys, my wallet, and everything in the car. Can you send someone to break into the car for me?” she recalled.
“And they said, ‘Ma’am, we don’t break into cars,’” she added.
However, 911 did refer her to a towing company. “This tow truck guy comes. He doesn’t say one word to me. He doesn’t ask any questions, like, ‘Is this your car?’ He just gets right to it,” Ripa further explained.
She added, “He comes. He breaks into this car in three seconds. I’m not even kidding.”
The entire ordeal lasted for 20 minutes, but it felt much longer for Ripa.
“All I could think of was, ‘Forget the dog. Mark is going to kill me. Mark is going to kill me. I was like, ‘He knows. The dog is psychologically communicating with him, telepathically,” she added.
Originally reported by Sourav Chakraborty on ComingSoon.
