Nick Swardson's, ah, "Batmobile" has been recovered.
The Minneapolis native's luxury automobile was stolen while parked outside the Improv in Los Angeles, as TMZ reported last week when photogs for the TV show and website happened to see Swardson walking aimlessly along a street.
Swardson calmly told TMZ that the car had been stolen four days earlier. He played it for laughs when first asked what kind of car it was: "A leopard-print Miata." There was another joke from the comedian and actor when asked if he'd left anything personal in the car: "Just my gun collection."
Why would Nick wait four days to report his car missing?
"I don't know," said his sister, Rachel Swardson, whose Twin Cities hospital patient recovery care business, once called Go Home Gorgeous, is now Bavia Health. "It's probably a most surreal experience. You have a car and now you don't. I've got to think that probably had something to do with it."
I withdrew my question about which Jag her brother owned after remembering that earlier in our conversation, Rachel insisted the stolen car was a Porsche, not a Jag. Listen for yourselves at this link to TMZ: www.startribune.com/a157.
"I know he loves his car. The only detail ..." said Rachel, who stopped mid-sentence because she burst into uproarious laughter. "I don't think I can say this. Nick's so unassuming. We were talking about my minivan," said the mother of three, "and he said, Yeah I just got a new car. It's so badass it looks like...."
This is a family newspaper, so Rachel can't be quoted in full, although I shared it with my Twitter followers Friday. All I can tell readers is that Nick described his car as the superhero's version of that sext message that got Brett Favre in trouble.