Couple puzzle cops with abandoned car after fight
Police called to an abandoned car on a main road in the German city of Bielefeld feared the worst when they found the motor running and the keys still in the ignition – but later discovered it had been left there by a couple in the middle of a huge fight.
“The colleagues thought the worse; that there had been a crime, or that someone had been driving drunk and wandered off away from the car,” a police spokesman told The Local.
Officers drove the silver Opel Astra off the three-lane road in the middle of town where it had been dumped on Saturday lunchtime, and parked it safely while they tried to trace the owner.
Later in the day the shame-faced man contacted police himself to claim his car. “The man and his girlfriend had been having a big argument when they stopped the car and stormed off in different directions,” the police spokesman said.
“Each assumed that the other would go back and get the car but neither did.
“I don’t know what they were fighting about but I certainly would not have wanted to be in that car.”
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“The colleagues thought the worse; that there had been a crime, or that someone had been driving drunk and wandered off away from the car,” a police spokesman told The Local.
Officers drove the silver Opel Astra off the three-lane road in the middle of town where it had been dumped on Saturday lunchtime, and parked it safely while they tried to trace the owner.
Later in the day the shame-faced man contacted police himself to claim his car. “The man and his girlfriend had been having a big argument when they stopped the car and stormed off in different directions,” the police spokesman said.
“Each assumed that the other would go back and get the car but neither did.
“I don’t know what they were fighting about but I certainly would not have wanted to be in that car.”
The Local/hc
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