Car emerges from melting snow in Ottawa parking lot

Spring is just around the corner, and with the annual thawcomes the uncovering of all kinds of things lost and forgotten under a thick blanketof snow.

Typically, the warmth reveals smaller objectsas the snow melts away, but on Monday, passersby on a St. Laurent Boulevard bridge saw something unusual peeking out of a pile of snow a car.

The silver Honda emerged from themelting snow, and an image of the vehicle caught the attention of users of the website Redditand quickly made its rounds on the web, garnering more than 12,000 views in less than 24 hours.

While this mystery car has amassed a lot ofsuspicion aroundhow it ended up where it did like a potential connection to some kind of crime the answer is not as nefarious as the questions it raised.

The car belongs to an 18-year-old male employee of the Njaim Mid-East Food Centre, said the owner of thegrocery store, Margo Njaim.

She said the owner of the car was involved in a single-vehicle accident earlierin the winter and had the car towed to the parking lot of the grocery store.

Njaim refused to name the owner of the vehicle, but said he is like a son to her. His biological parents currently live in Lebanon. Njaim confirmed hewas not under the influence of drugs or alcoholor distracted while driving, only saying thatit was a careless accident caused by the driver's inability to properly control the car's standard transmission.

The landlord of the complex where the carwas leftgave Njaim a month to move it, but by the time she was able to get around to it, the snow hadalready piled too high.

Despite it appearing as though the vehicle took a nosediveoff the nearbybridge, Njaim said it just got swept up by snowplows after a storm.