Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years

[jimmy olsen]

How can you not go into your garage for 2 years?

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Oops! Neighbor stored 'stolen' car for 2 years
Audi finally recovered, long after mechanics left it in the wrong garage

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BERLIN - 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.

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.

[Grey Fox]

Old people don't move around that much.

My uncle hasn't been in his basement in 5 or 6 years.

[saskganesh]

I lived in a house once where there was a room I went into like once or twice a year.

The house was just too big for only me.

[Caliga]

I've never been in my attic.

[jimmy olsen]

I've never been in my attic.

Go check it out, there could be treasure, skeletons, or porn up there!

[The Brain]

Old people don't move around that much.

How do you know the neighbor was old? Sounds like prejudice to me.

[The Brain]

I've never been in my attic.

There's not much to see. Some old pieces of furniture and odd items. Interesting factoid: you can hear everything that goes on in the master bedroom.

[Caliga]

Go check it out, there could be treasure, skeletons, or porn up there!

I'm afraid that there might be bees.

[jimmy olsen]

I've never been in my attic.

There's not much to see. Some old pieces of furniture and odd items. Interesting factoid: you can hear everything that goes on in the master bedroom.

[Caliga]

There's not much to see. Some old pieces of furniture and odd items. Interesting factoid: you can hear everything that goes on in the master bedroom.

Now I know why you are insane.  Listening to me getting yelled at day in, day out will do that. 

[DGuller]

How can you not go into your garage for 2 years?

The article didn't mention whether there were any bodies buried in the garage.  If there were, then I could imagine not going there for a long time, to avoid the stench.

[Malthus]

There's not much to see. Some old pieces of furniture and odd items. Interesting factoid: you can hear everything that goes on in the master bedroom.

Now I know why you are insane.  Listening to me getting yelled at day in, day out will do that. 

Now *that's* an unusual fetish.

[Ed Anger]

Go check it out, there could be treasure, skeletons, or porn up there!

I'm afraid that there might be bees.

I hate Hornets and Wasps. I have their nests liquidated ASAP.

[Caliga]

I'm allergic to bees.  Bees are Cal-El's Kryptonite. 

[Ed Anger]

Maybe later I'll tell you all the story about how Wasps chased me out of my yard after I attempted to deal with the Jew wasp problem.