5:30pm Tuesday 16th March 2010
By Michael Purton
WHEN Vic Cook lost his car in a supermarket car park a 10-man search mission was launched. Three hours later they found the car - exactly where he’d parked it.
Retired tanker driver Mr Cook, of Hawthorn Road in Dartford, told News Shopper about the incident on Saturday which he says left him feeling “a right fool”.
The 65-year said: “I’m part of the North Kent Disabled Foundation and a group of us went to the Sainsbury’s in Dartford to sell raffle tickets for a table-top sale we’re holding this Sunday (March 21).
“I parked my Vauxhall Astra in the car park at around 12pm and we went inside the supermarket to sell the tickets.
“When we came back out at around 3pm the car park was so busy I couldn’t find my car. We looked all over the car park three times but couldn’t find it anywhere.
“I phoned my wife Jackie and she came down to help look, and so did my son Warren, who brought his three children with him.
“I cannot tell you what my wife said at first when I told her I had lost the car because it’s too rude to print.
“Anyway, we were all looking for the car and getting nowhere, so I asked the supermarket security guards to help but we still couldn’t find it.
“We’d been searching for three hours and still hadn’t found it so I was starting to worry it had been stolen.
“I was about to call the police when my friend Jason turned up to help look and, would you believe it, he parked right next to my car.
“It had been in the space where I’d parked it all along, and somehow we’d missed it.”
Grandfather of seven Mr Cook, who has been married 44 years, added: “Obviously I was very relieved when we found the car, but I did feel a right fool.
“All my mates have been taking the mick out of me ever since. I don’t think I’ll ever live it down.”
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