{"id":447648,"date":"2026-09-25T19:04:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447648\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T19:04:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:04:18","slug":"texas-woman-battles-giant-rug-in-cctv-footage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447648\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas Woman Battles Giant Rug In CCTV Footage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">CCTV footage captures the moment a Texas woman takes on a giant rug after waiting a week for help to get it inside her home.Valerie Michelle Plaza, from Austin, Texas, had left the oversized rug in the back of her car for a week while waiting for offers of help that never quite materialized.Eventually, Valerie decided to take matters into her own hands.The footage shows her throwing the enormous rug over her back and carrying it toward her home, battling the bulky load as it appears almost as large as she is.Despite the struggle, Valerie manages to get the giant rug inside.Valerie later joked about the feat on Instagram, writing: &#8220;Me: I want to be taken care of. Also me: \ud83d\udcaa\ud83c\udffc&#8221;She also asked her followers when they would have finally asked for help, adding: &#8220;Because apparently my answer is &#8216;after the injury.'&#8221;The CCTV footage captures the effort from multiple angles before ending with Valerie&#8217;s dog, Malple, happily enjoying the giant new rug.The video prompted amused reactions from viewers, with one joking that Valerie&#8217;s neighbors must have been watching through their windows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CCTV footage captures the moment a Texas woman takes on a giant rug after waiting a week for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447649,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[132,154253,27,29,28,154254],"class_list":["post-447648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-austin","tag-cctv-footage","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-valerie-michelle-plaza"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}