Woman finds 'stolen' Audi in neighbor's garage 2 years later

[Liberal_in_LA]

Woman finds 'stolen' Audi in neighbor's garage

Thursday, July 30, 2009

(07-30) 12:18 PDT BERLIN, Germany (AP) --

An Audi sedan written off by an elderly German woman as stolen two years ago has resurfaced — in her neighbor's garage beneath a thick layer of dust. Police said Thursday the 82-year-old from the northern city of Hildesheim took the car in for repairs two years ago and had the mechanics drive it back to her house and park it in her garage.

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She got the keys and papers from her mailbox, but when she went to get the car it was nowhere to be found. So she reported it stolen.

Fast forward to Wednesday when her neighbor went to clean up his unused garage so it could be rented. He found the car under "a centimeter-deep coating of dust."

It didn't take police long to piece together that the mechanics had parked it in the wrong garage.


Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/30/national/a121803D95.DTL&tsp=1#ixzz0Mm23FF9k

[Fuzz]

1. Oops.

[donco6]

2. Beats finding five bucks in your pants.

Too bad the insurance company gets to keep it.

[ColbertWatcher]

17. Those were my WIFE's pants! n/t

[Buzz Clik]

3. "I wondered what that enormous lump was in my garage."

[Liberal_in_LA]

8. lol. My thought exactly. I'd notice a strange Audi parked in my garage

[Canuckistanian]

4. Reminds me of a neighbor

This elderly couple lived across the street from me my whole childhood. Then the husband died in about 1974, his widow a few years later.

When the son was clearing out the house, he found a mint-condition, 1965 Ford Mustang in the garage. I remember the old man having it, but I hadn't seen it for about 10 years.

[John Q. Citizen]

5. I had a roomate years ago that had his car stolen in San Fransisco with everything he owned in it.

About a year and a half after it happened the cops called him up because they found it.

It was two blocks away from where he thought he left it, untouched though parked in the same city block for the whole year and a half. He had gone out to the bar and couldn't find it when he left the bar later that night.

Still cracks me up.

[KDFW]

10. His car was stolen by Harvey Wallbanger!

:rofl:

[John Q. Citizen]

16. Exactly. It was a VW van with all his cloths, work tools, everything. Untouched in the big city

for a year and a half.

He had just moved out West from Baltimore, and he was a tree trimmer so he had chain saws and all sorts of things.

[ljm2002]

19. Okay, I've got a question for you:

Where the hell can you park an automobile for 1-1/2 years in San Francisco and not have the car towed or buried in tickets after that length of time?????

I'm sure there are lots of people in the Bay Area who'd like to know that little secret...

:-)

[John Q. Citizen]

22. that's what I asked him. This was back in the 80s. He lost his car and hitched hiked to

Sta Cruz and got a job at Cabrillo and then a room at our house in Watsonville.

We were there for about another year, and then the house broke up. About 6-or 8 months later I saw him at a pot luck with a lot of the old house hold. He was living at the Zen Center in Marin and has a letter forwarded to him from the person who had taken over the house. The SF cops said they found his van, he went and checked it out, it was untouched.

Amazing, even in the 80s.

[Suich]

6. I'm really enjoying your funny posts today, Liberal_in_LA!

Thanks for the laughs!

:thumbsup: :thumbsup:

[Liberal_in_LA]

7. Thanks!

:hi:

[KDFW]

9. Maybe I should go to Hildesheim...never did find my stolen Mercedes 190SL

:shrug:

[Critters2]

20. Don't need to go that far. Check your neighbor's garage. nt

[KDFW]

21. I did that. Found my OTHER neighbor's stolen boat.

(that is actually a true recent story. The Mercedes was 40 years ago and far away :-)
)

[abumbyanyothername]

11. If this story is not an indictment of the ridiculous

overconsumption in our society on so many levels, I don't know what is.

Wake up people. Even those of us having financial problems have way more than we need.

I have a friend who is paying $275 a month just to store stuff. And the locker hasn't been opened in over a decade. Does he own stuff, or does the stuff own him? Reminiscent of Thoreau's look at the situation and query does the farmer own the livestock or does the livestock own the farmer?

[RamboLiberal]

12. I have some neighbors who got the house of their late aunt

They finally decided they better tear down the old double garage that was a hazard to fall down. Inside were two very dusty cars from the 50's era. They managed to push the cars to an area in the alley where they left them for well over another year. Either the city or someone finally got on them to have them towed.

[KDFW]

18. A great "rest of the story" would be if one of them was a 56 Corvette

rescued by the garbage truck driver

:rofl:

[BlooInBloo]

13. (facepalm)

[armyowalgreens]

14. How did the neighbors not notice an entire in car in their garage for 2 years?

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

15. Centimeter-deep dust in 2 years?

This is one dirty garage. The dust bunnies must multiply like tribbles.

:rofl: