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Title: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2009, 10:30:13 AM
How can you not go into your garage for 2 years? :yeahright:

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QuoteOops! 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.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Grey Fox on July 30, 2009, 10:33:12 AM
Old people don't move around that much.

My uncle hasn't been in his basement in 5 or 6 years.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: saskganesh on July 30, 2009, 10:44:14 AM
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.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:45:16 AM
I've never been in my attic. :ph34r:
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2009, 10:46:24 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:45:16 AM
I've never been in my attic. :ph34r:
Go check it out, there could be treasure, skeletons, or porn up there!
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 10:47:52 AM
Quote from: Grey Fox on July 30, 2009, 10:33:12 AM
Old people don't move around that much.


How do you know the neighbor was old? Sounds like prejudice to me.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 10:49:58 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:45:16 AM
I've never been in my attic. :ph34r:

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.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:50:28 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2009, 10:46:24 AM
Go check it out, there could be treasure, skeletons, or porn up there!
I'm afraid that there might be bees. :(
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2009, 10:50:47 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 10:49:58 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:45:16 AM
I've never been in my attic. :ph34r:

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.
:lol:
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:51:22 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 10:49:58 AMThere'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.  :(
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: DGuller on July 30, 2009, 10:52:55 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2009, 10:30:13 AM
How can you not go into your garage for 2 years? :yeahright:
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.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Malthus on July 30, 2009, 11:02:26 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:51:22 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 10:49:58 AMThere'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.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Ed Anger on July 30, 2009, 11:04:29 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:50:28 AM
Quote from: jimmy olsen on July 30, 2009, 10:46:24 AM
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.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 11:07:32 AM
I'm allergic to bees.  Bees are Cal-El's Kryptonite.  :Embarrass:
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Ed Anger on July 30, 2009, 11:09:03 AM
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.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: HVC on July 30, 2009, 11:12:10 AM
Quote from: Malthus on July 30, 2009, 11:02:26 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:51:22 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 10:49:58 AMThere'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.
AKA marriage :P
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: KRonn on July 30, 2009, 11:16:44 AM
Well this is something you don't read about every day.   :huh:   
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Tonitrus on July 30, 2009, 01:20:58 PM
If it's one of those detached garages way in the back corner of the yard, like an old shed, I could see it being ignored/unvisited for a while.
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Malthus on July 30, 2009, 04:38:56 PM
Quote from: HVC on July 30, 2009, 11:12:10 AM
Quote from: Malthus on July 30, 2009, 11:02:26 AM
Quote from: Caliga on July 30, 2009, 10:51:22 AM
Quote from: The Brain on July 30, 2009, 10:49:58 AMThere'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.
AKA marriage :P

Not *every* marriage ...





... involves a Swedish fellow hidden in the attic.  :P
Title: Re: Oops! Neighbor stored ‘stolen’ car for 2 years
Post by: Eddie Teach on July 30, 2009, 04:52:17 PM
Quote from: Malthus on July 30, 2009, 04:38:56 PM
Not *every* marriage ...
... involves a Swedish fellow hidden in the attic.  :P

True. You do get the occasional Dane or Finn.