Man thinks car is stolen, found in garage

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A car stolen from an Adelaide man has turned up more than two weeks after it went missing, having neatly parked itself in an Adelaide Hills garage.

It was the pride and joy of a man from Stirling who had only owned it for two days when he parked it at some shops before going for a walk on December 18.

When he returned it was missing, so he promptly went to police and reported it stolen.

It was still missing by January 4, when a Stirling family, who lived opposite the shops returned home from holidays.

They immediately noticed that their garage had been broken into, with the roller door down but damaged and pushed off its tracks.

What they didn't expect on closer inspection was to find the "stolen" car neatly parked inside.

The puzzling scene was quickly explained when police went to the house.

It appears the car was parked directly opposite the garage and on a slight hill.

As the owner walked off, it had rolled through the carpark across the road and down the driveway before forcing itself under the roller door and parking perfectly inside the garage.

There it remained undetected for 17 days.

Police said the case of both the stolen car and the garage break-in were now closed.

-AAP