We have all been there. You park your car and go about your business. Three hours later you cannot for the life of you remember where you left it. Was it on level 4B? Or was it 3D?
The difference between you and one German man, is that it usually only takes you a few minutes to find it. This week, an elderly German man was re-united with his car twenty years after he forgot where he parked.
He reported his car missing to the police in Frankfurt in 1997 and city authorities have just found it. The car was not stolen, but in fact parked in a garage in an old industrial building.
The car was discovered because the building was due to be demolished. The police set out to find the owner of the vehicle as it was in the way.
When the 76-year-old owner was found, he was driven by police and accompanied by his daughter to be reunited with the car, according to German regional paper Augsberger Allgemein.
The car was in disrepair, and could not be driven home.
CoolHandJake1 on November 17th, 2017 at 20:20 UTC »
"Honey, where are my keys? No not those keys. The keys to that car I lost 20 years ago."
peace-monger on November 17th, 2017 at 20:11 UTC »
I have a friend who forgot where he parked his car in a shopping mall, but it never crossed his mind that he had forgotten, instead he jumped straight to a panic about it being stolen. He filed a police report and had someone come pick him up to take him home. A few days later he returned to the shopping mall, and there was his car. He literally could not allow himself to believe that he was so stupid, so he changed his story to "You know, I think someone must have just stolen it to complete a drug deal, and then they put it back." It wasn't until a few months later that he could finally admit that "maybe" he just forgot where he parked.
Wagnaard on November 17th, 2017 at 16:55 UTC »
Dude Where's My Car is due for a remake.