Car rental company’s lost and found

Europcar recently conducted a survey of their rental branches in the UK to find out what items are found in cars after they have been returned and what was the best excuse for damage to a vehicle. Many people who have rented cars will not be surprised by the fact that sunglasses, small change and maybe the odd CD or two is the more common items that are forgotten by the hirer, but give a thought to the worker who uncovered a mannequin in the boot of a car.

Probably the more worrying items (for the customer) that were left in one car was more than a thousand pounds worth of designer clothes, small electrical gadgets like PDAs, mobile phones and laptops have all been left behind. Some odd items that were recovered have to be the fluffy hand cuffs presumably not left behind by a policeman, a false leg that was left by Mr Silver and 10 individual un-matching shoes.

Unusual causes of damage to cars also raised a few eyebrows when one particular chap returned his rental car with part of the bumper missing. His family was with him at the time when he explained that they took a trip into the animal safari park in Longleat and when they had entered the lion’s enclosure one of the inhabitants had taken quite a liking to the shiny bumper and decided that would look good in his den.