{"id":118,"date":"2015-09-09T06:57:48","date_gmt":"2015-09-09T06:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=118"},"modified":"2015-09-09T06:57:48","modified_gmt":"2015-09-09T06:57:48","slug":"welcome-to-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/unknownexpat.com\/?p=118","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"

So far my experience here with the police was good. Only the procedures are sometimes a little annoying (then again, I dont want to know how annoying they are in Germany…). But now I got surprised a little.<\/p>\n

This morning when I was commuting, I had a chat with a colleague about the police, how friendly the Dubai police is as long as you stay calm and relaxed.<\/p>\n

Then I got a text message from Dubai police saying I got fined on September 1st and need to pay 200 AED (50Euro).\u00a0I didn’t really recall doing anything wrong (except for exceeding the speed limit by 20km\/h probably…).<\/p>\n

Then I checked it on the internet and found that:\"Inquiry<\/a><\/p>\n

And when paying it, another 10 AED ‘Knowledge Fee’ was added. Knowledge what? Are they teaching me a lesson?<\/p>\n

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“it’s how they recover their investment on IT”<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Well. Thanks. Welcome to Dubai.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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