you don’t tow a car from that lot after two weeks. So just how long do you wait? This is a problem, I should think. The second issue concerns what


was done with the cars when they were towed. It would seem that the airport would impound and sell the cars at a discount. So there should be a website. There were just over 3,000 cars


repossessed by banks in Dubai last year – not abandoned at the airport, although some were. My guess is that most were left wherever or picked up by the lending companies when the payments weren’t made. There are more than half amillion cars inDubai, most of them high-end vehicles. This would mean that less than 1% were repossessed, abandoned or otherwise so disposed. I don’t know if this is a big num-


ber or not. But it seems that the local parking folks at the airport aren’t the ones stuck with the problem. Accord- ing to this article, about 40 cars were picked up at the end of the year. However, it makes a great story.


Glorious Dubai is now in the dumps. The gazillionaires are now destitute and have to leave their Mercedes and Rolls Royces at the airport as they flee town. Turns out most of them are crooks who abandon their cars when they find the cops hot on their trail. But why should we let a little thing


like the facts get in the way of a good story? It’s the beginning of a wonder- ful urban legend. The airport parking operation is finding a hundred aban- doned cars a day. That’s about four an hour.Theymust have a very busy oper-


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