It's all too easy to leave behind the odd personal item on holiday.
But a British couple took forgetfulness to new heights - and lost their 12-year-old son.
They stopped at a service station in Switzerland, filled up with petrol, and drove off - believing the boy was asleep in the caravan being towed behind their car.
But after another 20 minutes on the road last Saturday morning they pulled over to check on him and found he had vanished.
The unnamed couple came off the A2 motorway near Arisdorf and doubled back, but took a wrong turn at a junction and ended up in the centre of the city of Basel.
After taking directions from police they finally made it back to the Pratteln service station two hours later, where they found their son being looked after by staff.
A service station worker told Switzerland's Le Matin newspaper: 'The child told us that while his parents were filling up with petrol, he got out of the caravan and went to look round the shop.
'But when he came back, his mum and dad had vanished.
'He was very calm about it all, saying his parents were often forgetful and that he was sure they'd be back to get him soon.'
The story might remind some of the film Home Alone, where Macaulay Culkin plays an eight-year-old boy left behind when his family fly to Paris for a holiday.
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...ing-12-year-old-son-Swiss-petrol-station.html
But a British couple took forgetfulness to new heights - and lost their 12-year-old son.
They stopped at a service station in Switzerland, filled up with petrol, and drove off - believing the boy was asleep in the caravan being towed behind their car.
But after another 20 minutes on the road last Saturday morning they pulled over to check on him and found he had vanished.
The unnamed couple came off the A2 motorway near Arisdorf and doubled back, but took a wrong turn at a junction and ended up in the centre of the city of Basel.
After taking directions from police they finally made it back to the Pratteln service station two hours later, where they found their son being looked after by staff.
A service station worker told Switzerland's Le Matin newspaper: 'The child told us that while his parents were filling up with petrol, he got out of the caravan and went to look round the shop.
'But when he came back, his mum and dad had vanished.
'He was very calm about it all, saying his parents were often forgetful and that he was sure they'd be back to get him soon.'
The story might remind some of the film Home Alone, where Macaulay Culkin plays an eight-year-old boy left behind when his family fly to Paris for a holiday.
Link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/wor...ing-12-year-old-son-Swiss-petrol-station.html
