Holiday Autos’ best of 2007

Holiday Autos’ customer service team have been kept amused by its customers’ queries and antics in 2007. Below are 10 of the funniest, quirkiest and bizarre tales of the year.

1) Dogging
One Costa Del Sol holidaymaker was arrested dogging in his hired car.

2) Pimp My Hired Car
A customer decided to ‘Pimp His Holiday Autos Ride’ by adding spoilers and connecting a boom speaker to the stereo system of his hired Golf.

3) Wrong Colour
A number of holidaymakers refused to accept their hire car because they were the wrong colour.

4) A Fly-ing Accident
One Nice (France) holidaymaker crashed into a phone box as he was trying to swot a fly – luckily the phone box was empty and nobody was hurt.

5) No Driving License
A potential customer thought he could legally hire a car for a Florida fly-drive holiday despite only holding a provisional license.

6) “Excuse Me Sir You’ve left A Prosthetic Leg In The Boot”
Items left in returned hired cars include; a prosthetic leg, dildos, frilly lingerie, and a glass eye.

7) Handbrake, Signal, Manoeuvre… Out Of The Way Of The Falling Car
One customer holidaying in Geneva wrote off his hired car during a trip to the mountains, when he forgot to put the handbrake on and the car rolled off the mountain.

8) Kangaroo On Main Street
A couple holidaying in Australia claimed damaged to their hired car occurred when a kangaroo ran out in front of them… on a busy main road in Sydney.

9) “How Much for the Hire Car?”
A female customer grew so attached to her red Clio she bartered (unsuccessfully) to purchase it.

10) “Where’s Granddad?”
One extended Family returning home from Palma was in such a rush to catch the plane they left Granddad in the back of the car.

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