Car roof calamity

If your boyfriend, partner or spouse managed to lose a large amount of money which could result in you losing your job, you’d be angry, right?

Well one poor husband in County Durham knew what the repercussions would be when he made a simple mistake outside of the post office in Willington.

His wife was working for a credit company, collecting money – a job the couple both needed her to keep – when the disaster occurred.

Helping his wife one morning by collecting £1,700 for the finance company, he put the bag which contained the money on top of his car.

You might be able to predict what happened next.

He promptly forgot all about it and when he next looked – it was gone.

In order to protect his wife from losing her job because of him, he fabricated a story which involved him being mugged in the street and described his attacker to the police.

Unfortunately it became clear quite quickly after a check of the CCTV that no attacker existed.

The man was given a community order with supervision and 175 hours unpaid work for wasting police time.

We just hope that his wife managed to keep her job and that she appreciated that he’d tried to salvage the situation – albeit in the wrong way.

Ah, car roofs, one of those mystical places where almost anything can be forgotten…

Labels: car, car roof, CCTV, County Durham, credit company, husband, mistake, money, mugged, police, wife, Willington