Dubai Tourist in Borrowed Lamborghini Piles Up $45k in Fines

Unfortunately, the owner is responsible for the tickets issued to the Lambo, but he doesn’t want to pay them.

A 25-year-old British tourist is on hot water after racking up more than $45,000 in speeding tickets while driving a borrowed Lamborghini Huracan. Local law states that the owner is responsible for any speeding tickets issued by speed cameras, but the owner of the car wants the tourist to pay and he is holding the man’s passport until an agreement is reached.

Night of Fun

It was initially reported that an unnamed man had rented the Lamborghini Huracan, but according to British tabloid The Sun, Farah Hashi was visiting some friends in Dubai in late July when one of his friends who owned a dealership offered Lamborghini Huracan. On the night of July 30^th, Hashi went out for a joyride through Dubai, reaching speeds of over 150 miles per hour between the hours of 2:30 and 6:00am. The problem is that the roads of Dubai are lined with speed cameras and several of them captured him breaking the law.

Well, to be exact, Hashi and the Lamborghini were caught breaking the speed limit a whopping 33 times, leading to fines of more than $45,000.

When he returned the Lamborghini the next day, the owner demanded that Hashi pay the fines, but he refused. A short time later, the owner of the Lambo showed up at the tourist’s hotel, demanding his passport as collateral and the man handed it over. As a result, he is effectively stuck in Dubai without his passport, so he is unable to travel home to the United Kingdom.

Who Pays the Bill?

Based on Dubai law, when someone is issued a speed camera ticket, the fines are attached to the car, since they don’t know for sure who was driving. Because of that, the owner of the Lamborghini Huracan is legally responsible for the $45,000 in speeding tickets, but since Hashi was the one who accumulated the fees, the owner wants him to pay the fines.

That makes sense, but reports indicate the Farah Hashi is an unemployed father who likely doesn’t have $45,000 laying around to pay the fines. To make matters worse, since he is effectively stuck in Dubai, he is spending more and more money to live abroad.

On one hand, it makes sense that the owner of the car wants the driver to pay the fines, but if the man is in the financial situation described in the report, he isn’t going to be able to pay those fines. In the meantime, Hashi’s older brother is traveling to Dubai with the hopes of helping the situation, but unless he has $45,000 to pay the fines, it is unclear what he plans to do once there.

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