And the 2012 award for 'World's Biggest Idiot' goes to... the prat who lent his BMW to two strangers and hasn't seen it since.
The 46-year-old man was at Hooters -- a restaurant staffed entirely by large-breasted young women, not that I'd know -- in Fairfax City, Virginia last month when a couple came in claiming that their car had broken down on the way to a wedding.
Touched by their story, the man lent them his BMW 740iL, similar to the one pictured above, on the condition that they returned it to him the next day.
They didn't.
What makes the debacle doubly painful for the man in question -- who, incidentally and perhaps wisely, has chosen to remain anonymous -- is that in the car he had left his laptop, some DVDs and an engagement ring.
Nobody has seen the man's Beemer since but the suspects have been described as a white male with brown hair, average build and average height, and a white woman with brown hair, average build and average height. So at least the police have got plenty to go on.
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