 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. last evening Halifax District RCMP responded to a 911 call of a vehicle having been stolen from the parking lot at a business on Hammonds Plains Rd. in Hammonds Plains. ( 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. Police say the other motorist departed the business, climbed into the wrong vehicle –which was identical to his– and drove off. Article Continued Below 
 
 A short time later, the man did discover he had taken the wrong car. However, prior to this realization, they had filled the vehicle with gas. The vehicle was returned to it's owner and the motorist was reimbursed for the fuel they had placed in the other person's vehicle. 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. 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.
– 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.)