Kuala Lampur, April 26 -- Right outside my apartment there's a small van that's been sitting in the same parking lot since right after Lionel Messi won the World Cup (kid you not). 

Every day I pass it. Every day it collects more leaves, more dirt, more rust, most pamphlets (fancy that). It's literally become part of the landscape.

And why? Because its previous owner decided the vehicle wasn't worth repairing or selling or maybe something happened to him or her.

That's not the only abandoned vehicle of course. The ominous thing is that there's (obviously) no official record of how many vehicles are left to rot so we can only make guesstimates based on the number of complaints lodged and those numbers are disheartening.

Across the...