My car has just vanished

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Hilarious thread

Car_54

waamo wrote: »

Whilst it does seem more rare there were still over 100,000 reported thefts last year so not exactly uncommon.

And after many years of decline, thefts have been increasing every year since 2014.

AndyMc.....

Sally_Forth wrote: »

If my car went missing, and it's parked permanently in a multi storey, my first thought wouldn't be stolen.
It's pretty hard to steal a modern car without the keys.

Going back to '90 or '91 I had a car go missing. I phoned the police 1st that time and reported it stolen after they assured me they didn't have it.
Four days later they told me they found it, and I owe them a towing and storage fee for illegal parking.
Guess they didn't have computers as much in those days.

Clearly it isn't.

Lucky_Duck_2

I (just about) remember in the late 1980s/early1990s a Newspaper running some completion to win a car with a 'dummy' key coming with each newspaper - some of these were found to open the doors on peoples' cars.

Unlikely to happen these days.

snowycatgirl

NBLondon wrote: »

I have walked round a multi-storey car park for 20 minutes thinking "have I mis-remembered the floor or has it been stolen?" when the car was exactly where I left it - in the other multi-storey across the street....

Did this three years ago.

Then a year later spent 20 mins looking for my blue VW golf only to finally have a lightbulb moment and remember I'd sold it 10 days before and bought a white VW Golf!

bertiewhite

OP - have you found it yet?

z1a

summerwinter01 wrote: »

flat, open, 24 hour car park which you can go in and out of.

Are there any you can't?

marcarm

My old Focus saloon locked itself on a cold winters day when my ex-wife left the engine running on the drive to warm up.

A lot of Fords will lock themselves after a minute if it is unlocked and no doors are opened, this one was faulty as she opened the door and started the engine.

Anyway, in a bit of a panic, she asked the man who lives over the road if he can help, he tried his Mondeo key and it opened it straight away.

northwalesd

I once returned the floor in a multi-story car park where I knew I'd parked my car, only to find it not there. I looked one floor lower and one floor higher, eventually returning to the original floor. Only when there did I remember I'd driven there in my brother's car, not my own

waamo

I remember in the mid to late 80's going back to where I had parked and the car wasn't there. It was the correct spot and the correct car park.

As I was walking off, intending to drop in at the local police station, I spotted my motor. There were 2 guys wrestling next to it and the door was wide open.

As I walked over a bunch of coppers grabbed the one lad and carted him off. The idiot had tried to nick my car in full view of an off duty copper. He got as far as the queue to get out.

Luckily he didn't do a massive amount of damage. Sadly the bloody thing got nicked (and recovered rather amazingly) three more times after that.