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In 2001, shortly after he had quit after his first term as prime minister, Stoltenberg gained some negative media attention when he crashed into a parked car in a parking lot.

According to an eye witness, an employee of the Norwegian High Command with a security clearance, Stoltenberg went over to check on the other car twice, and the eye witness thought he fastened a note to the windscreen of the damaged car.

Then Stoltenberg took off in his car, a Saab 9-3 leased to the Labour Party, and the High Command employee approached the damaged vehicle to check what had been written on the note that was clamped under the windscreen wiper but discovered it was just a blank parking receipt.

The damages to the parked car amounted to NOK 8, 000 ( about US $ 1, 300 ).

The day after the story broke in the media Stoltenberg said he had made a blunder which he regretted.

He explained not leaving a notice with having been unable to find a pen.