BERLIN, Germany-

This is that type of story I love. I think it really epitomizes what StrangeRush.com is all about.

An elderly German woman took her Audi to her mechanic for repairs. Knowing that the job would take a while to finish, she asked the mechanic return it to her when the work was completed. She asked him to park it in the garage and put the keys and paperwork in the mailbox. The mechanic did as instructed, and the woman was able to retrieve everything from the mailbox, but the car was nowhere to be found. She immediately called the police and reported her Audi stolen.

Of course it’s not that simple, nothing ever is on StrangeRush.com. Two years later her missing Audi was found……it was in her neighbor’s garage. What a rotten, dirt bag, stealing a car from an old woman. Again, not that simple. The car was actually found in the neighbor’s garage by the neighbor himself. It was a garage he never used, and he only went out to it to clean it up in preparation for a renter. The neighbor said he found the car under “a centimeter-deep coating of dust.” Well, I’m not too sure about a centimeter, but we get the point.

In the end, police determined it was the mechanic who screwed up and parked the car in the wrong garage.

The Moral of the story: Always confirm the address on the house and/or sidewalk before making a delivery.

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