BMW found six months after driver lost it in parking garage (1 Viewer)

[sports_fan]

BMW found six months after driver lost it in parking garage

You know those few seconds of panic when you can't recall exactly where in the lot you parked the car? Multiply it by a couple million and you have this story out of the UK.

In June, a man borrowed a friend's BMW in Scotland and drove south to Manchester to catch a Stone Roses concert at Etihad Stadium, reports the Manchester Evening News.

He parked the vehicle in one of the area's parking garages and promptly forgot which one. After the concert, he searched and searched, and ultimately spent five days trying to find his friend's wheels before giving up.

In August, the owner, who'd emailed local companies and government to see if it had been found, reported the vehicle lost or stolen. Now officers say they happened upon an abandoned car in one of the area lots just before midnight Friday and, after seeing it had been reported lost or stolen, tweeted that they'd found the car that had been lost since June.



We can't imagine what the ticket machine is going to say when they finally put the ticket in - £££££££££££££££££££££££££££££

— GMP City Centre (@GMPCityCentre) December 31, 2016




"We can’t imagine what the ticket machine is going to say when they finally put the ticket in," Manchester City Centre officers posted in a follow-up tweet.

The officers' best guess? Around $6,150. The story reminds AOL Travel UK of an even wilder one: that of a German man who parked his car December 2010 and wasn't able to locate it until September 2012.

http://myfox8.com/2017/01/04/bmw-found-six-months-after-driver-lost-it-in-parking-garage/

 

[WilliamBonney]

I would have found the car in less than 2 hours. 

 

[[scooter]]

"We can’t imagine what the ticket machine is going to say when they finally put the ticket in," Manchester City Centre officers posted in a follow-up tweet.

The officers' best guess? Around $6,150.

1. buy junker car for $500.

2. take junker car to same parking lot, then swap parking tickets with BMW.

3. drive out with BMW, pay $10 for parking.

 

[BassNBrew]

1. buy junker car for $500.

2. take junker car to same parking lot, then swap parking tickets with BMW.

3. drive out with BMW, pay $10 for parking.

pay the lost ticket rate

 

[[scooter]]

1. buy junker car for $500.

2. take junker car to same parking lot, then swap parking tickets with BMW.

3. drive out with BMW, pay $10 for parking.

pay the lost ticket rate

Some garages use video cameras to identify each car by its license plate. The Lost Ticket Fee is based on when the plate was first entered into the logbook.

(So, in that case you'd have to add step 2a to my plan: switch plates.)

 

[DaVinci]

Sweet! What does mine say?

 

[Rustoleum]

Dude!

 

[Apple Jack]

Reminds me of walking out of the Grateful Dead at RFK in 1990 tripping our faces off. Lord of the Rings had nothing on that journey.

ETA: Also watched a car crash into a house at 40-50 mph in NE DC on the way home. "Wait, did that really happen?"

 

[Rove!]

Some garages use video cameras to identify each car by its license plate. The Lost Ticket Fee is based on when the plate was first entered into the logbook.

(So, in that case you'd have to add step 2a to my plan: switch plates.)

If there were license tag logs to review, I'm guessing they would have found the car much sooner

 

[Galileo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Aewv48YT_Y

 

[GoBirds]

Wow, must have been an amazing concert!