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Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:15 AM
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This rich **** from Dubai just bought the following license plate for $14.3 million...



http://abcnews.go.com/Business/story?id=4301197&page=1

Yep, that's right, $14.3 million. I paid about fifty bucks for mine and I think mine is better.

Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:21 AM
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thats CRAZY
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:22 AM
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Heard about that on the news. Pretty insane. People just have TOO MUCH money!

On the plus side it looks like the money is going to charity, so its not all bad news.
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:27 AM
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wat a waste of money
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:32 AM
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dumbest thing ever but i cant stop laughing
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:43 AM
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it isn't dumb. at least the money goes to charity.
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:44 AM
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now he needs to make it solid platinum or some crap
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:52 AM
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haha well that was our money
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 05:03 AM
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Originally Posted by ARIZONA-TC
dumbest thing ever but i cant stop laughing
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Old Feb 19, 2008 | 05:23 AM
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i thought the image was a mug shot at first..
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 08:02 AM
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dubai is the richest place...what do you expect?
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 12:51 PM
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Shows what morons will do for thier own vanity I guess. Glad it went to charity, sad to see how much lower the human mind has sunk
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 03:27 PM
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whats so special about it? is it made out of something that is worth that much money?
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 03:31 PM
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They believe that the lower number on your license plate, the higher status you have in society
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:38 PM
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Yep, everyone wants to be number one.
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 04:40 PM
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stuppppppppppppiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiidddddddddddddddddddddddd
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someone will probably steal it and sell on ebay for 5
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 09:59 PM
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Originally Posted by paul34
They had a short news story on this a while ago.

Apparently there was this guy had the number plate "5" on his $1 mil Rolls Royce. However, the plate was $5 million. He said he really wanted "1" and would pay between 15-20 million USD for it.

I guess he didn't get it!

People really don't understand just how much money people in the Middle East really have. Unless you have been there, you really don't know what real rich is. Not wealth, not american rich - but RICH. Beyond rich. Money isn't even a concern here.
Don't give people the wrong image, this is god damn Dubai, richest town in the world, it's basically made of people selling oil..

Originally Posted by lylaznboi5o3
someone will probably steal it and sell on ebay for 5
So? the government will just issue a new 1, no one will buy it since it can't be used, it's still under his name..
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 10:04 PM
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Zero is a lower number.
Old Feb 19, 2008 | 11:08 PM
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Where do you go from there is all I WANT to know???

It's all downhill from the 14 million dollar plate.....



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