Forgot about my Porsche
There has been two stories n the news this week about celebrities or the stupidly rich losing their cars or even forgetting they owned it. Jenson Button, the 2009 Formula 1 World Champion’s father John Button and Stoke City footballer Jermaine Pennant are the culprits.
John Button “misplaced” his Ferrari 550 in the Italian Riviera, the police had to find it for him. Button said, “It’s all a bit embarrassing, but the roads that lead into Alassio and Laigueglia are almost identical, even the railings look the same, and they both have a fork in them. The police found it quite amusing,’ said Button, ‘and once things had been resolved said, ‘Give our regards to Jenson’.”
John Button is getting on a bit now, so I can almost forgive him and to be honest we’ve all lost our cars in multi storey car parks before. Jermaine Pennant on the other hand completely forgot he left his £98,000 Porsche parked in a Spanish train station for five months. He had purchased the Porsche while playing for Spanish side Real Zaragoza, since this revelation Pennant has denied owning the car; only thing is the car’s number plate reads “P33NNT”.
I wish I had the financial might to forget about cars worth the same as some houses. My friend once thought his car was stolen, he reported it to the police, and they found it parked down the road – where he had left it the night before!
You know how we have trackers fitted to our cars so that we can find them if they are stolen, well maybe cars should get their owners fitted with trackers, so that every time they move 20 miles away from the car they get an alert of some sort. In fact all used cars in Birmingham should come with this as standard.
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