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Found this interesting. Looks like it’s in 🇺🇸. Surprised it has not been towed.

Heard of stories of abandoned vehicles in the Middle East (Dubai?), but with super cars.

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[–] [email protected] 71 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This reminds me of walking around NYC near ground zero about a month after 9/11. There were a ton of cars covered in dust and people hard written stuff like “we will never forget” on them.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago

I wonder how many of those people remember that

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 year ago (4 children)

This actually sad. If true, it means the owner was the last member of their family.

[–] [email protected] 75 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That’s not even necessarily true; it’s possible their immediate family was simply too poor to insure or tow the vehicle and so left it abandoned.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago

Their first sentence is still true if that's the case.

[–] [email protected] 51 points 1 year ago

To me it seems especially grim because the owner was well enough to drive themselves to the hospital, park and get themselves inside and were never well enough to leave (except in a bodybag or maybe a hospital transport to a hospice).

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 year ago

Or they never knew where it was parked.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Or maybe they just pissed everyone off so bad they went NC and don't know or care that Karen is dead/had a car.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Why is the '23 date more faint than the '22 one?

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

the 22 date is directly on the clear coat of the car, 23 is on previous layers of dust.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago

Possibly the dust is so caked on it's harder to wipe through all of it?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

22 date probably has traces of human oils?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess park wherever you want, those guys ain't towing

[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a hospital. They don't tow because they charge you on the way out. This guy's estate is going to be broke!

[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago

presses "lost ticket"

pays for one day