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A 62-year-old man in France put police on high alert after calling emergency services to report that he had forgotten his wife at a highway gas station and couldn’t remember which one.
On Saturday July 5, the Paris man left on vacation for Morocco with his wife and daughter in the family car.
They made several stops at gas stations along the way, but during one of these breaks, something peculiar happened.
Around 4:30 in the morning, the man, whose name has not been revealed by the media, left the gas station without realising he had forgotten his wife there.
He only realised his mistake about 300 km (186 miles) later and quickly called emergency services for help. It was a very bizarre conversation, as the man not only had to explain how he could have forgotten his wife at a gas station, but also had trouble remembering which gas station it was.
“We received this rather confusing call around 8:30 a.m.,” the Gendarmerie in France’s Lardes region told France 3.
“The man no longer knew where he had stopped or when. The gentleman mentioned a break he had made near Orléans. We contacted our colleagues on site to have them check.”
Interestingly, the couple’s 22-year-old daughter was in the car the whole time, but she couldn’t offer much assistance to police because she was asleep and had no idea where her father had forgotten her mother.
Despite checking multiple rest areas along the motorway, police couldn’t find the missing woman, which only made the situation more tense, because they began to suspect that the 62-year-old man had forgotten the woman on purpose.
Luckily, this strange story has a happy ending! The police were able to locate the missing woman with the help of a mobile network operator by tracking her phone.
She was at a motorway service station in Deux-Sèvres, 300 kilometres away from where her husband had realised she was missing.
The woman hadn’t moved since 4:30 a.m., waiting for her family to return. Following a short investigation, police concluded that the Paris man had genuinely forgotten his wife, so after reuniting the family, they were allowed to continue their journey to Morocco.
Culled from www.odditycentral.com
