A local resident had phoned
the authorities to report the car missing which, after 20 years it had seated
rotting in a garage, was deemed unfit to drive.
An absent-minded German
driver had his car returned to him 20 years after he forgot where he parked it.
Authorities in Frankfurt
found the car in a garage in a building which is set for demolition.
Police drove the
76-year-old owner to be reunited with his Volkswagen Passat.
The owner thought it had
been stolen, Frankfurt authorities said, but it had just been hidden from view
and actually exactly where he left it. It was reported stolen back in 1997.
Frankfurt authorities said:
“The car can no longer be driven and will be sent to the scrap heap.”
The car had only been
discovered because it had been parked in a building which is being renovated.
According to German paper
Augsberger Allgemein, the car was getting in the way of building work, so
police had to investigate and find out who it belonged to.
There was no word on why
the man got so confused in the first place.
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