Ever been in that nightmare where you forget where you parked your car?

March 24th, 2010

This guy was dead drunk and forgot where he parked
A property investor lost his $200,000 Lamborghini sports car because he was too drunk to remember where he parked it. Okay, so he was in a strange town and he was blotto, but still…, a Lamborghini…

He lied
To make matters worse, Glenn Knowles, 35, who co-owned the car with Robert Mant, 29, then lied to his friend and the police, claiming he had no idea what had happened to it. He admitted taking the car from his friend’s house when police showed him images of the car being driven and said he had been “too embarrassed” to admit his stupidity.

Insurance scam?
Was this an attempted insurance swindle? Knowles and Mant were accused in Guildford Crown Court in England during a six-day trial of plotting to swindle their insurance company. The jury accepted that the accused had forgotten where he parked the car. Despite having one of those hi-tech, non-fail tracking devices, the Lamborghini has disappeared.

The jury
The jury accepted Knowles’s claim that he had no idea what had happened to the car after his drunken night out and the pair were acquitted. The jury also heard that this is not the first expensive car he had misplaced. One a previous occasion he couldn’t find a Mercedes after a night out in Kingston, Surrey. The car was eventually found parked behind a night club.

Lamborghini Gallardo
The court heard that on December 17, 2008 Mant parked the Lamborghini Gallardo outside his home in Epsom, Surrey. The next morning he realized it was missing and his neighbor told him he had seen the car being driven away. Mant called Knowles, who at that point claimed he did not know where it was but when the car was tracked via number plate recognition systems, it showed it being driven towards Gillingham, Kent.

Property investor
Knowles, who earns the equivalent of nearly R2-million a year from a property portfolio, admitted in court that he had went into Mant’s home and took the keys to the Lamborghini before driving to Gillingham where he met his parents in a pub. He said he might have driven the car while drunk to Rochester, where he continued drinking, but he did not think he would have taken it on to Maidstone, where he ended his evening. He told the court that before taking a taxi home at 4am, he had been unable to find the car.

Evidence
So, the jury was told, he dropped the keys at Mant’s house and didn’t tell anyone what he had done. The two men then reported the car as stolen and put in an insurance claim. They were subsequently charged with conspiring to commit fraud. The men told police they had no intention to get rid of the vehicle and had owned a string of high-powered expensive cars since they were in their early 20′s. Easy come, easy go!

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