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When authorities found Canadian skier Constantinos “Danny” Filippidis at the car rental zone at Sacramento International Airport six days after he disappeared from a ski resort in upstate New York, they were “adamant” about getting him to a hospital.
After all, nobody in their right mind would ever choose to runaway to Sacramento.
According to Deadspin, Filippidis was last seen hitting the slopes of Whiteface Mountain on February 7. When he was suddenly nowhere to be found, Department of Environmental Conservation forest rangers, New York state police, resort staff, New York state Emergency Management and Fire Prevention Department, several of Filippidis’s coworkers, the Department of Homeland Security and the U.S. Customs and Border Protection all teamed up to find him.
With all of his belongings still in his ski lodge and his car still parked in the parking lot, authorities, concerned coworkers and family members were stunned and baffled by his sudden disappearance. Thankfully for everyone involved, the story has a happy ending, as Filippidis was found six days later at the Sacramento airport wearing the same clothes as the day he disappeared. He also had a credit card and $1,000 in cash, but he told police he had no idea where he was.
“He was very nonchalant, and kind of out of it,” police said. “Our officers were adamant to take him to the hospital to have him treated.”
Asked how in the hell he made it to Sacramento, Filippidis told police that he hitched a ride with a “big rig” that eventually dropped him off at a “McDonald’s near a tall building” on February 12. He then bought a cell phone and called his wife, who then convinced him to call 911, and that’s how authorities were able to find him the next morning.
So if you’re keeping score at home, yeah, it’s all fucked up. So you’re saying that he didn’t know where he was, but he remembered his wife’s cell phone number? And instead of having the big rig drop him off in Vegas, he had him take him to Sacramento? Something tells me this story isn’t over yet.
