Car Mileometer - All The Eights
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On 8th August 2008 I drove my car and when I returned home and parked on the driveway I was amazed to see the mileometer read 88,888! It is very strange that the 5 eights appeared when I had parked the car as I may not have noticed it had it happened whilst driving. I have a photo of the mileometer still on my camera which has the date of the event on the image.
Date submitted:Sat, 03 Mar 2012 08:56:53 +0000Coincidence ID:6057
