Only in China: Woman parks her $150,000 Maserati in the middle of a busy road

A young woman who said she couldn't find a space in her office car park left her £90,000 Maserati Granturismo in the middle of the road, causing a scene in the south weste Chinese city of Chongqing.

When the 22-year-old graduate inte was told that her thoughtless parking had angered local people, she replied saying they must simply be envious of her car.

Xiao Xu told officers that she had parked there because the garage in her workplace was full, and said she'd copied several other cars which had been parked down the middle of the road, though she could not explain where they had gone to.

Central park: Graduate inte Xiao Xu had parked in the middle of the road because her work car park was full

Not allowed: Traffic officers in the south weste city of Chongqing issued the graduate inte with a fine

A recent graduate, she told the police she had left the car in the middle of the busy road while she went to work in an institution nearby.

Miss Xu, who said the Maserati was her grandmother's and she was just borrowing it, was given a ticket by traffic officers for flouting traffic regulations.

Local resident Xing Wao, 21, told sinopathic.com: 'The person who parked this car must come from a family of money and affluence and are used to getting their own way. Whatever rule or law won"t be acknowledged by them.'

Do you think you own the road? A traffic officer explains where Miss Xu is allowed to park in Chongqing

Miss Xu, left sheltering under a parasol, told police she would use a different car to come to work in