Parking ticket already adds 201,500 euros

Stations and airport parking are, in all likelihood, one of the busiest points, due to the constant coming and going of passengers and companions.

However, instead of forgetting the toothbrush, someone seems to have forgotten a Volkswagen Golf in the short stay of Berlin airport. For a year! In all that time, the counter of the parking meter has not stopped adding.

It may seem a funny anecdote, but with what the ticket will cost at the exit, six cars like the one he forgot can be bought.

The abandoned car mystery

According to him German newspaper Berliner Zeitung, uN Volkswagen Golf of fifth generation, the version sold between 2006 and 2010, has been parked in front of the main door of the Berlin-Brandeburg Airport Willy Brandt for more than a year, without anyone knowing who its owner is.

The car, a diesel model with Hannover registration, did not show signs of external damage to the naked eye, except for the obvious dust accumulated by being outdoors for a whole year. But he showed no signs of having been forced.

However, the inside the car It showed a very careless appearance. The central console screen was shattered, there were remains of food, wrappers and a half -empty water bottle. From the German medium they describe the appearance of the interior of the vehicle “as if someone had gone in a hurry.”

Again, signs of careless use, but There were no obvious samples of having been stolen. In addition, there was a signaling plastic tape knotted to the rear windshield wiper, which added an even more mysterious touch to the situation.

A parking bill that exceeds, long, the value of the car

The German newspaper notes that the Plaza de parking that has “out” This car for a whole year is intended for short stays in front of the flight exit door to leave passengers. These places offer the first 10 minutes free, but then 23 euros are charged per hour as a deterrent method for those who intend to occupy them for a longer time.

This means that the parking cost for forgotten golf amounts to 552 euros every day. If that is multiplied by the more than 365 days that has remained forgotten, the bill of That ticket exceeds 201,500 euros. A cost equivalent to what six new Volkswagen Golf would cost.

The company that manages the parking lot, Apcoa Deutschland GmbH, contacted the authorities, but according to what was published by Berliner Zeitung, So far no one has been able to locate the owner because the local police have no jurisdiction within the airport and, technically, the parking lot is not publicly, so they have not been able to act and the car is under the management of the winning company.

Company sources declared Berliner Zeitung that “due parking quotas may be charged if the car owner is located and this has sufficient financial resources.”

Theories about abandonment and lack of denunciation

One of the theories is that golf could have been stolen, that false registrations were installed and used to commit a crime. Subsequently, it would have been discreetly abandoned in this airport parking.

The truth is that the abandonment of vehicles in airports is not anecdotal. There have been cases of people who have returned to their countries of origin, leaving their cars in the parking lot. Another possibility is that the person who parked it there changed the enrollment intentionally to avoid being tracked, and thus Save the management of the casualty of the vehicle.

However, all this are just speculation trying to find something as incredible as the car is forgotten in a parking lot, although we cannot say that it is something impossible. A millionaire forgot his Ferrari F40 in a parking lot in Munich for a decade.

It is strange that no one has denounced the presence of this car for so long. A vehicle parked right at the entrance of the airport, in such a visible place, usually caught attention and would be removed quickly. However, this golf has remained there a whole year without anyone doing anything about it.

What will happen to golf and its debt

Although there are many cases of abandoned cars in airports that end up being auctioned, the situation of this golf is different due to the enormous accumulated debt. According The published in Autobildif the car had been abandoned in Spain, the concessionary company of the parking lot could process its withdrawal and scrapping, after showing signs of abandonment, although the process can take up to six months.

Meanwhile, the mystery continues. The car frame number, visible on the windshield, could be the key to identifying the owner, but for now the golf remains an enigma at the Berlin airport.

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