Police stop man for ‘stealing’ own car

BRISBANE (DS)A man from Australia has been stopped twice by police and accused of stealing his own car. John Pettit told the authorities that his 1999 Hyundai station wagon had been taken from his Brisbane home last Nov, before he found it abandoned at a nearby pub hours later and informed police. However, after pulled over by officers, who forced to apologise after checking his identification and admitted that the car had remained in a police database of stolen vehicles.

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