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ONTARIO, Ore., (KBOI) - A vehicle reported to local police as stolen was found several days later by a couple who accidentally took the wrong car from an eastern Oregon grocery store parking lot.
Ontario Police chief Mark Alexander says an elderly driver parked their white 1992 Oldsmobile Cutlass at the Red Apple parking lot Sunday evening and left the keys inside.
Sometime later, an elderly couple mistakenly got inside the Cutlass, Alexander said, and took the vehicle home. The owner of the Cutlass, another elderly resident, filed a stolen vehicle report with Ontario PD.
On Wednesday, police received a phone call from employees at the Red Apple grocery store complaining about a white 1993 Chrysler LeBaron that had been left in the parking lot for several days. When officers arrived, they ran the license plate and traced it to the couple.
"When we called them we asked them why their vehicle was left in the parking lot," Alexander said.
The couple told police that their vehicle wasn't at Red Apple, and insisted it was parked at their home. When officers went to the couple's home, however, police realized what had happened.
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To top it off, the cars look NOTHING like each other....
Curmudgeoness
(18,219 posts)about how long people should be able to keep their driver's license? I have a feeling that these folks will have to go to the Red Apple on their scooters from now on.....at least if the law enforcement is on top of things.
On the up side, the owner of the stolen car was damned lucky. Leaving the keys in his car was an invitation for much worse.
liberal N proud
(60,344 posts)Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)MADem
(135,425 posts)the same color!!!
dpbrown
(6,391 posts)Maybe they used to own the other kind of car.
David J Spetch
(15 posts)perhaps you have to be creative to make life interesting when you get elderly (not saying that they did it intentionally but ya never know)
/ David
jafranklin05
(6 posts)This can happen with anybody but what is good is that, They were not the thieves.