Crime & Safety

'Lonely' SUV Tweets Soliloquies While Abandoned In Brooklyn

The Mercedes has sat on Myrtle Avenue near Fort Greene Park for more than a year and has racked up hundreds of dollars in tickets.

FORT GREEEN, NY — A car long abandoned in front of Fort Greene Park has racked up hundreds of dollars in tickets and even has its own Twitter page that posts lonely soliloquies, the New York Post reported.

The Mercedes-Benz ML 320 has been parked at Myrtle Avenue, next to Fort Greene Park, for more than a year and has been issued about 15 unpaid tickets totaling $825, the Post reported.

The derelict vehicle, or at least somebody acting on its behalf, has been tweeting short, lonely thoughts since November.

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The car has Virginia plates that expired two years ago and the earliest ticket it's gotten at that spot was from Sept. 2, 2016, the Post reported.

The majority of the violations were for failing to move for street cleaning. Police investigated complaints about it twice but found "no evidence of a violation," the paper reported.

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The car can been seen on Google Street view for at least a year with several tickets tucked under its wiper-blades.


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