Check his basement. I bet kitty is in his basement.

The van has been either:

1. pushed off a transport aircraft at 20,000 feet
2. stranded in the desert
3. in the middle of an active war zone in Yemen
4. is inside an animal habitat filled with wild gorillas
5. is balancing on the edge of a mountainous cliff
6. at the bottom of a deep lake
7. has somehow been placed into a stable orbit around the earth