WATCH ABOVE: As Carolyn Kury de Castillo reports, a facebook post and unique bumper sticker helped a woman track down her car just hours after she noticed it was stolen.
CALGARY- A Calgary woman has found a new use for facebook. It involves a stolen car, some surprised police officers and a strange bumper sticker.
On Thursday, Misty Aucoin’s car was stolen from in front of her Penbrook Meadows home.
After calling police, Aucoin turned to facebook for help. She posted a picture of her not so unique car, but fortunately her honda civic had a rather unusual bumper sticker that said “Honk if you love jesus, text while driving if you want to meet him.”
Aucoin’s sister Shaunna then shared the post with a friend, who just happened to notice that bumper sticker and the honda later in the afternoon Thursday.
“She ended up looking on facebook and she saw my post and she messaged me saying I think your sisters car is in front of my house,” Shaunna Aucoin said.
“I said really? Are you serious?”
Then sure enough, just seven hours after the facebook message went out, the car is “found” a few kilometers away in Southview. Misty Aucoin was shocked.
“What are the odds right, a honda civic, there’s 1 million of them in the city there’s no way I ever thought I’d see it again. I was absolutely shocked grateful happy to have a bumper sticker,” Misty Aucoin said.
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Aucoin says the police officer investigating, told her this is the first time he’s heard of a stolen car found through facebook.
“He was absolutely shocked. He asked me when my car gone missing and how I knew where to find it. And I don’t think he believed me but I wouldn’t of either right. It’s unique.”
Facebook and twitter are usual sites Aucoin and her sister check out, but they never figured this on-line long shot would end up recovering her car.
She thinks social media can continue to be useful in other ways.
“Maybe a bike gets stolen. It’s good for when children get abducted. A lot of people have their eyes out for something and it can be a really quick way to solve a problem,” Aucoins said. “I never really believed in the power of social media until posting that and to have my car back within hours it wouldn’t of happened without facebook that’s for sure, the police even said so.”
The recovered car was damaged as a result of the joy ride the culprits took it on, so it remains at the impound lot for the insurance company to take a look at.
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