45K in speeding tickets in 3 hours
A 25-year-old British man racked up a stunning $45,000 worth of tickets in just three hours behind the wheel of a Lamborghini Huracanin Dubai last week, according to a a British tabloid?and now the man and the rental car company are in the midst of a standoff over who should pay the fines.
According to The Sun, the unnamed British tourist spent the same length of time as that tour Gilligan and the Skipper had been planning blasting along desert highways like the Sheikh Zayed Road in the rented Lamborghini at speeds of up to 150 miles per hour early one recent morning?a joyride that, unsurprisingly, caught the attention of the all-seeing eyes of speed cameras lining the route. In fact, those cameras managed to capture the Huracan flaying the speed limit no fewer than 33 times over that three-hour span, leading to the eye-watering amalgamation of fines.
But like an M. Night Shyamalan film, here's the twist, and there is a twist: In Dubai, traffic fines accumulated on a rental car are the legal responsibility of the company that owns the vehicle. And according to The Sun, the tourist who rented the car for two days still hasn't returned it yet to face their presumably very, very angry faces.
"We can?t pay this amount should the car be taken into impound, it?s still with the tourist, parked at his hotel," Faris Mohammed Iqbal, the 26-year-old owner of the rental car company, told The Sun. "Who pays the money for the impound? We shouldn?t do so for sure, its his fault and he should pay that amount.?
The British man paid about $1,550 on July 30th to rent the car for two days, according to the paper. He also reportedly gave the rental car company his passport as collateral?and the rental firm still has a hold on it. Nevertheless, it seems unclear whether the Brit can zip back to his homeland or not without his passport, as the government of the United Arab Emirates apparently won't be forcing him to stick around.
?We obtained copies of all the violations and immediately submitted a request for a travel ban on the tourist," Iqbal told The Sun, "but the request was rejected."
As for why Iqbal's company hasn't gone to the tourist's hotel and snatched back the Lambo itself, Iqbal told The Sun that doing so would mean the Huracan would disappear into police custody. "I won?t be trying to take it back because once I do, I know I have to surrender it to police," he said.
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According to The Sun, the unnamed British tourist spent the same length of time as that tour Gilligan and the Skipper had been planning blasting along desert highways like the Sheikh Zayed Road in the rented Lamborghini at speeds of up to 150 miles per hour early one recent morning?a joyride that, unsurprisingly, caught the attention of the all-seeing eyes of speed cameras lining the route. In fact, those cameras managed to capture the Huracan flaying the speed limit no fewer than 33 times over that three-hour span, leading to the eye-watering amalgamation of fines.
But like an M. Night Shyamalan film, here's the twist, and there is a twist: In Dubai, traffic fines accumulated on a rental car are the legal responsibility of the company that owns the vehicle. And according to The Sun, the tourist who rented the car for two days still hasn't returned it yet to face their presumably very, very angry faces.
"We can?t pay this amount should the car be taken into impound, it?s still with the tourist, parked at his hotel," Faris Mohammed Iqbal, the 26-year-old owner of the rental car company, told The Sun. "Who pays the money for the impound? We shouldn?t do so for sure, its his fault and he should pay that amount.?
The British man paid about $1,550 on July 30th to rent the car for two days, according to the paper. He also reportedly gave the rental car company his passport as collateral?and the rental firm still has a hold on it. Nevertheless, it seems unclear whether the Brit can zip back to his homeland or not without his passport, as the government of the United Arab Emirates apparently won't be forcing him to stick around.
?We obtained copies of all the violations and immediately submitted a request for a travel ban on the tourist," Iqbal told The Sun, "but the request was rejected."
As for why Iqbal's company hasn't gone to the tourist's hotel and snatched back the Lambo itself, Iqbal told The Sun that doing so would mean the Huracan would disappear into police custody. "I won?t be trying to take it back because once I do, I know I have to surrender it to police," he said.
LINK
https://www.msn.com/en-us/autos/news/british-man-racks-up-dollar45000-in-speeding-tickets-in-3-hours-in-lamborghini-huracan/ar-BBLCN9i
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The British at odds with the camel jockies?? Like it's never happened before? 0 -
I think the young man should pay or make payment arrangements before he is allowed to return to England. His irresponsibility in a foreign land is way over the top, it is bad form old chap. It is one thing to stretch speed limits at home but quite another while a guest in another Country, double that for a Muslim Country that will chop your hands off for stealing. 0 -
If he never lifted the pedal, it is one ticket. They are raping the tourist and rental company for cash. 0 -
quote:Originally posted by mag00
If he never lifted the pedal, it is one ticket. They are raping the tourist and rental company for cash.
Not so, thise cameras are set up depending on the road every few miles, each time one goes off it is a new ticket.
And this guy is lucky, Kuwait travel bans for tickets.0 -
quote:Originally posted by Big Sky Redneck
quote:Originally posted by mag00
If he never lifted the pedal, it is one ticket. They are raping the tourist and rental company for cash.
Not so, thise cameras are set up depending on the road every few miles, each time one goes off it is a new ticket.
And this guy is lucky, Kuwait travel bans for tickets.
And most the time an Expat didn't know they had one until at the airport clearing passport control to leave.
And you had pay before you could leave and you couldn't pay at the airportt.
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quote:Originally posted by Big Sky Redneck
quote:Originally posted by mag00
If he never lifted the pedal, it is one ticket. They are raping the tourist and rental company for cash.
Not so, thise cameras are set up depending on the road every few miles, each time one goes off it is a new ticket.
And this guy is lucky, Kuwait travel bans for tickets.
It's money grubbing. The additional cameras merely documented that he was still speeding.
And to think they will impound seize the rental car just proves the point.0 -
Do the crime - pay the fine. Stick his stiff upper lip into a crowbar hotel, and feed him mutton guts until he pays up. 0 -
I really like the rental company is responsible for the fine
wonder if hertz would do that for me [}:)]
no matter who ends up paying I do agree they are hosing the driver and the rental company over the tickets ..
only 150 mph what a wuss , I have had my daily driver faster in my younger years [:D][:D]0 -
I like the backwards thinking that the rental car company is responsible for the speeding tickets. I thought the USA was the only country that screwed up.
If I robbed a bank in the rental car, picked up a hooker ect would they still go after the rental car company?
I'm just curious how far the idiocracy goes?0
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