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$45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours
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This is one of the many reasons why you do not give a super car to a 25 year old.



A British tourist in Dubai may be bringing home the worst souvenir ever after collecting $45,000 worth of speeding tickets in just four hours.

Traffic cameras caught the 25-year-old breaking the speed limit 33 times on July 31 in a rented Lamborghini Huracan at speeds ranging from 78 to 142 mph.
According to The Local, the yellow supercar is now sitting in front of the man’s hotel collecting dust. The rental agency is refusing to pick it up because it will have to turn it over to police and will be responsible for the fines, per local regulations.

The agency currently has the man’s passport, which was left as collateral, and is hoping to resolve the matter before he leaves the country.

http://www.foxnews.com/...kets-in-4-hours.html

I wonder what he end game is here ...

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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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End game? He's a 25 year old with a rental Lamborghini. The end game is to drive it like a madman with no thought beyond that. His prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed yet.


I can't say I wouldn't have been tempted to test the capabilities of the Lamborghini had I an opportunity to drive one. Maybe a track would have been a better place, but I'm not 25 either.

Suffer Well.
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [jmh] [ In reply to ]
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jmh wrote:

End game? He's a 25 year old with a rental Lamborghini. The end game is to drive it like a madman with no thought beyond that. His prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed yet.

I can't say I wouldn't have been tempted to test the capabilities of the Lamborghini had I an opportunity to drive one. Maybe a track would have been a better place, but I'm not 25 either.

Well, perhaps a little time on the interwebs looking into traffic enforcement in Dubai would have been a good start for him ...

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/...police-radar-catches

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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He likely thought that by the time a ticket is issued he'd be out of the country, no harm no foul.
Last edited by: Sanuk: Aug 8, 18 12:51
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [jmh] [ In reply to ]
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jmh wrote:
I can't say I wouldn't have been tempted to test the capabilities of the Lamborghini had I an opportunity to drive one. Maybe a track would have been a better place, but I'm not 25 either.

A local guy (owned a business a few blocks from my house) died in a rental Lamborgini a few years back, I think within a very short time of driving off the rental lot.

https://www.autoevolution.com/...hini-crash-8129.html
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [WelshinPhilly] [ In reply to ]
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WelshinPhilly wrote:
jmh wrote:
I can't say I wouldn't have been tempted to test the capabilities of the Lamborghini had I an opportunity to drive one. Maybe a track would have been a better place, but I'm not 25 either.

A local guy (owned a business a few blocks from my house) died in a rental Lamborgini a few years back, I think within a very short time of driving off the rental lot.

https://www.autoevolution.com/...hini-crash-8129.html

“"I just don't think he knew how fast that car was," Michelle Brown“

Yeah he rented it because it just looked pretty... give me a break.
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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Almost certainly without getting paid they won't let him leave

During 2 of my years in Qatar. One of my friends was effectively under arrest whilst a fire was investigated

Until you pay, or are cleared you don't leave
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [Andrewmc] [ In reply to ]
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Maybe next he will rent a boat and go into international waters.
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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JSA wrote:
jmh wrote:

End game? He's a 25 year old with a rental Lamborghini. The end game is to drive it like a madman with no thought beyond that. His prefrontal cortex hasn't fully developed yet.

I can't say I wouldn't have been tempted to test the capabilities of the Lamborghini had I an opportunity to drive one. Maybe a track would have been a better place, but I'm not 25 either.

Well, perhaps a little time on the interwebs looking into traffic enforcement in Dubai would have been a good start for him ...

https://www.khaleejtimes.com/...police-radar-catches

I'm willing to bet he spent 0 time looking up Dubai traffic laws. He's 25. I'm also willing to bet that the rental fee was doable (1-$2000/day?), but coughing up 40k + is going to be problematic.
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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In Canada he could claim that all those cameras are violating his human rights to privacy and are unconstitutional.
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [softrun] [ In reply to ]
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Try claiming human rights in the gulf....... They are big fans of them
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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Spent most of a year working a contract in UAE--in Abu Dhabi working with their Presidential Guard on some stuff. Super Cars were ubiquitous and it was very cool to see them growling along. They had tracks where you could unwind them and the highway between Abu Dhabi and Dubai was mostly free of cameras though it'd be sketchy weaving between trucks as you rocketed along at 120+mph

Steve
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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ruh roh.

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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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Could have been worse. Could have been Finland.

https://www.theatlantic.com/...eding-ticket/387484/

Slowguy

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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [Steve Hawley] [ In reply to ]
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I worked with Group 18 in Abu Dhabi for a couple years. I had to drive to Dubai twice a week to perform test flights and had all of the speed cameras on the E11 figured out so that I could open my Jeep up to 145-150 kph. I can't believe I didn't blow the engine up on that thing!

E11 is near perfectly straight for 120 km, so I'm not surprised he was able to rack up those tickets. Justin Bieber came there for a concert while I was working there and got a few thousand dollars worth of tickets while driving a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, too.
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [Brandon_W] [ In reply to ]
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Brandon_W wrote:
I worked with Group 18 in Abu Dhabi for a couple years. I had to drive to Dubai twice a week to perform test flights and had all of the speed cameras on the E11 figured out so that I could open my Jeep up to 145-150 kph. I can't believe I didn't blow the engine up on that thing!

E11 is near perfectly straight for 120 km, so I'm not surprised he was able to rack up those tickets. Justin Bieber came there for a concert while I was working there and got a few thousand dollars worth of tickets while driving a Lamborghini or a Ferrari, too.

Did you have fun at the concert?

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [JSA] [ In reply to ]
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Ha ha, I didn't have the pleasure of attending, but I do remember that the local radio station played his bullshit every other Goddamned song.
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Re: $45,000 in speeding tickets in 4 hours [Brandon_W] [ In reply to ]
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Brandon_W wrote:
Ha ha, I didn't have the pleasure of attending, but I do remember that the local radio station played his bullshit every other Goddamned song.

Sorry, I couldn't resist ... ;-)

If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers

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