Car's amazing hide & seek manoeuvre

None of the reports we found specified the type of station wagon, so (just for the fun of it) we're showing you a very typical Aussue wagon, the Holden Commodore Sportwagon.

None of the reports we found specified the type of station wagon, so (just for the fun of it) we're showing you a very typical Aussue wagon, the Holden Commodore Sportwagon.

Published Jan 6, 2012

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A station wagon reported missing in Adelaide last month had gone for a joy ride all on its own, according to South Australian police.

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. Hard to believe, isn’t it?

“It even made us have a bit of a laugh here in the office,” Dodds remarked.

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. -Sapa-dpa

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