Hundreds of Fedex packages found tossed into Ala. ravine
Some Fedex packages in Alabama will absolutely, positively not be delivered on time this season.
Between 300 and 400 Fedex packages were found Wednesday in a wooded ravine near the small town of Hayden in north central Alabama, the Blount County Sheriff’s Office said on its Facebook page. Deputies guarded the packages at the scene, which is about 30 miles north of Birmingham, until Fedex workers arrived to pick them up, Sheriff Mark Moon told The Associated Press. Fedex sent several trucks and drivers from across the South to retrieve the packages, he said.
Photos posted on the sheriff ’s office’s Facebook page showed workers on Thanksgiving Day retrieving packages that had been tossed toward the bottom of a wooded hillside.
The sheriff’s office is continuing to investigate why the packages were tossed into the ravine, but did not respond
to a request for an update Saturday.
Nearby resident Natasha Abney told Birmingham ABC affiliate station WBMA-TV that her neighbor found the boxes on his property. “I mean, it was just a river of boxes,” she said.
In addition to recovering and delivering some of the packages, Fedex said in a statement that it is working with law enforcement on the investigation.