HALIFAX—A Halifax vehicle mix-up had a happy ending after a car taken by the wrong owner was returned with a full tank of gas. Just after 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Halifax RCMP responded to a 911 call about a vehicle being stolen from the parking lot at a business on Hammonds Plains Rd. in Hammonds Plains. 
 
 RCMP say the case of a stolen car was quickly solved after the person who mistakenly drove off with it returned the SUV with a full tank of gas. ( FRED TANNEAU / AFP/Getty Images ) 
 
 The woman caller told police that she had parked beside a car that looked identical to hers and entered the business, but when she came out her car was gone. As it turned out, police said another man had left the business, climbed in the wrong vehicle, and drove off. Halifax RCMP spokesperson Cpl. Dal Hutchinson said while such a situation is “very rare,” the confusion was understandable given that the cars were both white Hyundai Santa Fes (a 2016 and 2017) parked side by side. 
 
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 A short time later, the man did discover he had taken the wrong car. However, he filled the tank before coming to the realization. The vehicle was returned to its owner and police said the man was even reimbursed for the fuel he had put into the woman’s car. “Happy ending for everyone,” Hutchinson said in an interview Monday. To be fair, Hutchinson said it’s not that unusual to let yourself into a car that you think at first might be yours—he’s done it himself. “I jumped in, turned quickly and looked—and the woman sitting in the passenger side wasn’t my wife. My wife was in the next vehicle watching this, laughing,” Hutchinson said. 
 
 Although police said it doesn’t appear either vehicle was left running, and Hutchinson didn’t have more information on whether keys were left in the woman’s car, the RCMP are reminding drivers to make sure their vehicles are locked and not left running if unattended. “We might run into a business while our car is running, and that’s an opportunity for people to pounce on, and unfortunately there are those that would take advantage, ” Hutchinson said. “But in this case, it was one of those situations where it was an honest mistake.” 
 
 Read more about: ||||| Carjackings usually don’t end with the alleged thief returning the vehicle with a full tank of gas — but that’s exactly what happened in Nova Scotia this past weekend. 
 
 According to Nova Scotia RCMP, a woman called police on December 9 to report that her vehicle had been stolen from a parking lot. 
 
 The owner of the vehicle said that she parked next to an identical vehicle that she was driving. When she returned back from shopping, her vehicle was gone. 
 
 But it turns out that the person who stole the car didn’t mean to take it at all. Police say the other motorist departed the business, climbed into the wrong vehicle –which was identical to his– and drove off. 
 
 Somehow, his key fob managed to work for the other car and unlock it. 
 
 The man soon discovered he was in the wrong vehicle and he immediately returned it, but filled up gas first. 
 
 The owner of the vehicle then reimbursed him for the gas, and all was well. 
 
 Talk about the most Canadian car theft, ever. 
 
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 A bizarre car crash involving a BMW filled with naked people has become even stranger as RCMP prepare kidnapping charges against three suspects, who investigators allege intentionally rammed a truck after three people escaped the vehicle. 
 
 On Monday, two vehicles collided on a rural road in Nisku, Alta. When officers arrived, they found five people inside a white BMW completely unclothed. 
 
 In an update Tuesday, RCMP allege that three people -- a man, a woman and a newborn baby -- were forced from a home in Leduc County and into a vehicle. 
 
 Investigators said the man was stuffed into the vehicle’s trunk but somehow managed to escape. The woman and infant also managed to flee. 
 
 That’s when a truck driver passing through the area spotted the three and picked them up. 
 
 Derek Scott of LPH Industrial says it was his employee who came to their rescue. 
 
 “Apparently they came out of the ditch with no shoes on, so he stopped to see obviously if they needed help. It’s the middle of the winter and people running around with no shoes on -- you stop to help them,” Scott told CTV Edmonton. 
 
 After they entered the truck, RCMP said another vehicle purposefully rammed the truck. The force of the collision pushed the truck into a ditch. 
 
 “They rammed him from behind … the unclothed people in the BMW,” Scott said. 
 
 RCMP arrested five suspects: a man, two women and two female minors. All five were naked when they were taken in to custody. 
 
 Kidnapping charges are pending against the three adults, RCMP said. The two youth have since been released. 
 
 New video surfaced Tuesday that appears to show the dramatic takedown. Several officers surround the BMW and order someone to “Sit down on the ground, right now!” 
 
 Screaming and crying can be heard coming from the area, and a naked man is eventually escorted by an officer away from the scene. 
 
 Scott, who was in the area at the time of the arrest, said he saw police use what appeared to be Tasers on the suspects. 
 
 The events leading up to the unusual arrest remain murky. On Tuesday, police cruisers surrounded a nearby home, where a garage door appears heavily damaged. 
 
 Construction crews said the police presence has remained at the property for the past day. Investigators have not confirmed if the two scenes are connected. 
 
 Scott said he knows members of the family that his employee helped, and that they live close to Nisku. But he would not comment on what may have led to their alleged escape. 
 
 “I’m not going to say too much about the family involved, just because I think they’ve been through enough,” he said. 
 
 The truck driver confirmed Scott’s version of events, but refused to speak to CTV Edmonton on camera. 
 
 With files from CTV Edmonton
– Cops thought they were looking for a car thief. Turns out, it was just somebody a little absent-minded. It seems that a shopper in Halifax, Nova Scotia, returned to the parking lot, hopped in the wrong car, and drove away, according to a police statement. Both cars were white Hyundai Santa Fes, and they were parked next to other, reports the Toronto Star. The errant driver even gassed up the vehicle before realizing his mistake. It's not clear how he was able to start the car; it wasn't left running, but his key fob somehow worked, per the Daily Hive, which calls him the "most Canadian car thief ever." He finally returned to the scene of the not-really crime, and all was cleared up. The woman whose car he took even reimbursed him for the gas. “Happy ending for everyone,” says a police spokesman. (Two young teens raised the ante on joy-riding by stealing a plane.)