(Bergensavisen) For some, passing a dirty car creates an unbearable urge to scribble on the surface.
“WASH ME!” is a classic.
In City Park, the parking garage at the courthouse in central Bergen, we found no such notice to the owner of a dirty, silver-grey Volkswagen.
However, we found other classics.
The letters “LOL”.
«KUK»
An illustration of the above words.
And a series of dates, with the newest apparently from February 25 this year, and the oldest from August 20 last year.
Could this car really have been here for 207 days?
– Creates smiles
– The car? It has been here since we got here, says one of the workers we meet in the car park.
They are there to replace the facade, a job that started about two weeks ago.
– A talking point? No, but we smile every time we pass by, he says, laughing.
We make a phone call to AimoPark in Oslo, which operates the car park.
– Okay? Ehhh … it’s the first time we’ve heard of that car, says customer manager Åsmund, who does not want to give his last name for privacy reasons.
However, he can say that the daily price is NOK 288, and that there is no limit to how long cars can be parked with them.
Given that the car has not left the parking garage since August, the bill is approaching NOK 60,000.
Will receive a large bill
“They will probably receive a large bill when they have to pay for the parking, but they are not there illegally,” writes another, unnamed customer service representative in an e-mail after investigating the matter further.
We fire off an answer: “How big? Has it been there since last August? Or longer? Has it not been driven out of the parking garage? Isn’t that strange? Do you think someone will come and get it?”
But get the answer again that this is information they do not release.
But where is the owner?
So far, none of BA’s investigations bear fruit. The car is EU-approved, so it will not be separated at first.
The woman who owns the car cannot be found in the telephone directories, and the address in Østlandet is shared by seven private individuals and a company.
The first number we try is not in use. The next is unavailable.
The third just rings out.
We give up, and instead make a phone call to Øyvind Lasse Høysæter, who posted a picture of the scribblings on Twitter with the comment “I think the car has been there for a while”.
– It must be expensive to have the car parked there for many weeks. I hope it is not a missing car, but that someone has put it there, says Høysæter.
When he hears that the bill for parking can be up to NOK 60,000, he has to laugh.
– Oioioi, huff, poor thing! Maybe someone thought they left the car at Bystasjon, and are looking for it? I’m glad it’s not me!
PS! Some may remember The Rolls Royce which for many years stood at Flesland? There, the price tag passed NOK 200,000 and that was fine. The car, which should have been parked in December 1998was finally sold at the Norwegian Armed Forces’ auction in 2006 or 2007, former marketing manager at Avinor AS, Alf Sognefest, can tell.
Will you help us solve this car mystery? Give us a shout at tips@ba.no!
