05/29/2007

False Alarm in Bremen

Little Car Mechanic Sparks Child Abduction Scare

A short car mechanic who was driven around a German city in the trunk of a car to investigate a rattling noise was mistaken for a kidnapped child.

German police who mounted a major rescue operation for a child seen locked in the trunk of a car were surprised to find a car mechanic of short stature who had been trying to detect the source of a rattling noise.

Police in the northern city of Bremen said a woman had called after she looked out her apartment window and saw a child in a trunk -- just before the driver slammed it shut, and drove off.

"A major investigation and manhunt was immediately launched and the car and its driver were apprehended," police said in a statement.

"The explanation was a simple as it was logical: The driver had been worried by inexplicable rattling noises in or near his trunk. He called a mechanic, who appears to have had a 'child-like' figure according to the witness, and who climbed in the trunk to get to the bottom of the problem."

Police said they didn't know if he found the source of the rattling.

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