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On her way home from party, student gets lost in Chrysler plant

Published: Thursday, September 17, 2009

Updated: Thursday, September 17, 2009 00:09

Chrysler aerial

Julie Wigley

A university student spent the night inside the Chrysler plant after getting lost walking home from a party.

Chrysler inside

Julie Wigley

The student mistook the plant, photographed last spring, for a train station.

A university student spent the night at the closed Chrysler Assembly Plant last week after getting lost walking home from a party, police said.

Lt. Brian Henry of the Newark Police said dispatchers received a call Sept. 11 at 7:32 a.m. when a Wackenhut Security guard found the student walking out of the south doors of the building, located on South College Avenue.

The student had attended a party at Ivy Hall Apartments Thursday night, Henry said, and was separated from her friends. She left to return to her dorm room at Rodney Hall but started out in the wrong direction and followed the train tracks to the plant.

Henry said the student stopped at the plant because she thought it was a train station where she could receive help.  A guard on duty received a call from the girl, who was using a phone line inside the plant, but  the guard believed the call to be a joke and hung up.

When police arrived the next morning, the student was taken to Student Health Service, where she was found to be in good condition.  Henry said owners of the plant will not be taking action against her for trespassing.

The auto plant closed in December and is awaiting auction. The university is speculated to be the primary bidder.

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Your name
Tue Sep 29 2009 00:07
well obviously if she was so drunk she wandered into the plant, she was too drunk to realize where she was to get from ivy to rodney derrrr. hilarious tale i must say
NUBKILLA
Sun Sep 27 2009 16:24
Ivy Hall to Rodney is quite a difficult journey. You have to go on two roads, and make one turn OMG!!!!

Anyways, I am jealous of her. I have wanted to explore the pant ever since it closed down. At least someone got to do it.

no name
Sun Sep 27 2009 15:55
I know this girl, she didn't walk down the tracks, she just crossed them. I'm just glad she's ok . The security guy should be glad too. Do your job dude!
no name
Sun Sep 27 2009 15:51
It's a funny story that ended on a good note, but the security officer should be fired for being a lazy smuck. Maybe the girl interupted his nap.
alumni :(
Sat Sep 26 2009 17:10
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHH hAAAA!!! hahahaha
jerry dinler
Thu Sep 24 2009 09:10
i got drunk and spent the night on another planet..lucky for me, i was returned to the plant err earth in the morning
rodneybetchhhh
Wed Sep 23 2009 23:31
I LOVE YOU! I KNOW UR EX ROOMATE GIRRRRLLLL YOU ROCK
Stan DePayne
Wed Sep 23 2009 23:01
That's funny. With a little more education from the University of Deleware, that girl may one day have the security guy's job. You go girl! Dare to dream! I like exclamation points! They learn you real good about exclamation points at UD! I think there's like a Master's program in Exclamation Points at UD or something.
Your name
Wed Sep 23 2009 17:14
she didn't walk the train tracks like they said, i heard she just crossed them. Either way, this girl is hilarious !! I love drunk people
killaky
Wed Sep 23 2009 16:36
oh. my. gosh. i love this girl from the bottom of my heart and she is not pathetic at all. People get drunk all the time and get separated from their friends all the time, it happens to the best of us =]. The security guard who thought it was a joke is pathetic.
JayCee
Wed Sep 23 2009 15:51
I know the family of a kid who died on the train tracks there, one would think if so many kids die walking those tracks that either kids would srop using them, or a fence would be put up...
Hey
Wed Sep 23 2009 15:42
delaware is aweosme i love delaware go blue hens were awesum lol
Your name
Wed Sep 23 2009 15:33
i know the girl actually and its not pathetic its hilarious and she didn't just walk all over train tracks like a drunk idiot. Her phone died and she lost her friends and was trying to find help.
Your name
Wed Sep 23 2009 04:32
Typical UD story....
anon
Wed Sep 23 2009 02:30
i think this is quite hilarious, such an honest and drunken mistake..even though i am a senior and no longer live in the dorms, could see this happening to one of my friends or myself!
Jamarcus
Wed Sep 23 2009 00:28
must be the nicest neighborhood around, now if she was in the hood..
Paco S.
Tue Sep 22 2009 21:45
Oh come on, who hasnt spent a night at the plant.
annonymous
Tue Sep 22 2009 20:47
Best. Party. Ever.
conway
Tue Sep 22 2009 18:14
they should have thrown the party there
j
Tue Sep 22 2009 16:50
I go to UD, I lived in Rodney last year as a freshman, and I have been to Ivy for a party.

I am going to find out who this was.

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