Albanian Cars
“Do business in Albania,” ran a joke popular among German businessmen, “your car’s already there.”
Albanians are so sick of police doing nothing about the theft and hijacking of luxury cars that they’ve taken to setting up their own informal networks of hot-lines and roadblocks.
When a big new Mercedes was stolen at gunpoint earlier this month from a Tirana parking lot, the lot owner immediately called in his friends from the capital and around the country instead of dialing the local police precinct.
Using mobile phones, three cars homed in on the late-model limousine from different directions while an unofficial road block was set up near the northern town of Lezhe.
The car-jackers saw the private roadblock, got out and took off. (More @ Reuters)
November 24th, 2007 at 7:20 pm
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