Man Allegedly Stole a Trailer – and When the Owner Couldn’t Start the Vehicle Again, He Was Broken Out of Jail to Help

Olive Teague described the bizarre experience in a TikTok video

For 158 days, Olive Teague’s trailer, which also served as her home, was missing.

Half of Teague’s personal items and his work equipment were stolen from him, according to a GoFundMe released after the robbery. But after the vehicle was found months later, her story went viral for an unexpected reason.

According to a TikTok shared by Teaguethe man accused of stealing her vehicle was also the one who taught her and a friend how to start it.

“The police recovered my stolen trailer, but we couldn’t figure out how to start it with the ignition on, so the officer had the man who stole my trailer from the county jail show me and my friend how to start it,” wrote Teague. on video.

The video shows the suspect – dressed in an orange jumpsuit – in the passenger seat, while Teague’s unnamed friend is in the driver’s seat. Both are shown leaning over, looking at the ignition as the suspect explains how to turn the vehicle on and off. As soon as he hangs up, the suspect proclaims, “Okay, bingo!”

“My friend and the responding officer tried for a good 15 minutes to jump out of the vehicle while I cleaned the back. Eventually, I heard the officer say, ‘You know what? I don’t want us to do any more damage to the ignition by messing with this, I know a guy at police station who definitely knows how to do this. And then he left,’” Teague said in a GoFundMe update.

Teague says he initially thought another officer would come to help. But not.

“The responding officer went to the county jail and literally picked up the man they booked. [allegedly] selling my equipment and took him on a little tour to teach us how to hook up my trailer,” she wrote.

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Teague added that she thought it represented a “potentially dangerous” situation with the man “waving a screwdriver inches from my friend’s face,” but she said he was also “very supportive of the teaching process?????? ”

She said she filmed the moment for posterity, but also “in case we needed proof.”

According to the GoFundMe update, squatters lived in the vehicle during the months it was missing.

“There was significant damage to the body of the vehicle and all of my belongings were missing upon arrival,” Teague wrote in the fundraiser. The roof air conditioning unit and solar panels were also missing and the vehicle was left in disarray.

“During the cleanup process, we discovered drugs, weapons, stolen jewelry, bicycle parts, hunting weapons, a raccoon trap, and many other unmentionable items,” Teague wrote on GoFundMe. “There is fire damage to the interior of the trailer. The walls, my new mattress, and the carpets have deep burn marks. About an hour and a half into the cleanup project, I found an entire CAT. She was truly the most sweet.”

Teague – who is the founder of The Seattle Mermaid School – now it’s raising money for at least a dozen trailer repairs and to replace his stolen work items. PEOPLE reached out to Teague for comment but did not immediately hear back.

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