On Monday morning "we woke up with messages from police saying the car’s been stolen”, Howe said. “It was a bit of a pain.”
One of the car’s windows was broken, the ignition had been ripped out, and it had been driven in the wrong direction along the city’s one-way street system, he said.
The car had also been used to do burnouts and police received complaints about the way it was being driven, Howe added.
The 25-year-old said they did not have anything sentimental in the car, but there were two children’s car seats, glasses in a blue case, a tan Billabong ski jacket, a blue paisley North Face Jacket, Adidas Stan Smith shoes, and keys with a cartoon kiwi pattered bottle opener key ring.