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Case closed: runaway car hid from careless driver
Jan 6, 2012, 3:44 GMT
Sydney - A car reported missing in Adelaide last month had gone for a joy ride all on its own, South Australian police said Friday.
It was found neatly parked in a lock-up garage on Thursday, just across the road from where it vanished 17 days ago.
'It had rolled out of the shopping centre car park, across the road, down the driveway, into the garage, through the garage door - which then closed on itself - and there was the man's stolen car,' Constable Tim Dodds told the Adelaide Advertiser.
'It even made us have a bit of a laugh here in the office.'
The owner, who had only had the car for two days and appears to have forgotten to apply the handbrake, told police he recalled hearing a loud bang while he was walking away.
The car was gone when he returned and a suspected crime reported to the police.
Over two weeks later the disappearance was explained when a family returning from holiday called police when they found what appeared to be evidence of a break-in: their garage door bashed and off its tracks.
Finding the missing car inside, police were able to clear up two suspected crimes at the same time.
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