Woman's parking fee reduced from €70,000 to €7,000

A woman who left her car in a Munich car park for nine-and-a-half years escaped with a fee of €7,000, instead of the nearly €70,000 she would owe if she had been charged the standard €20 per day. 



“The lady isn’t insolvent. She has a job and money,” managing director of the Bavaria Parkgaragen company Claus Schnell said, by way of an explanation for not taking action sooner.

If she had to have paid the full amount for her Mitsubishi's 3473 day stay at Schwanthalerhöhe near the Munich U-Bahn station, the woman, known only as Claudia B., would have been charged €69,460.



While Schnell acknowledged that it was unusual for a person not to collect their car, he said “such cases occur from time to time.”