LaFerrari Driver almost rear-ends someone blows through a stop sign

[Kwon_2]

Qatari shitpeople of Peace

[timfogarty]

According to zillow, the house, 700 Walden Dr, 5 bedrooms, 4.5 baths, is being rented for $45k a month.

[Skeletor]

LaFerrari Asshats Who Terrorized Beverly Hills Do Not Really Have Diplomatic Immunity: Police

Police officials in Beverly Hills investigating the LaFerrari and Porsche 911 GT3 drivers who tore through a neighborhood at excessive speeds say that the parties involved do not have actually have diplomatic immunity like they claimed.

The problem is, they appear to have skipped town, Beverly Hills Police Department Lt. Lincoln Hoshino told Jalopnik. Hoshino said the rented house where the drivers retreated to — with their yellow LaFerrari smoking — has been cleared out.

In addition, while the now-viral video clearly shows the cars driving recklessly, police have not identified exactly who was driving them, Hoshino said. He added that while police know the owners of the car — information they aren’t sharing — the drivers remain unknown. (The car is said to be from Qatar, and its drivers reportedly linked to the Qatari royal family.)

“Our officers weren’t there to observe the violations,” Hoshino said. Had they been present, the drivers could have been arrested, especially since U.S. State Department officials confirmed they do not have any sort of diplomatic immunity. “But we don’t know who was driving the car.”

And under California law, charges can’t proceed until that happens.

Over the weekend the drivers were seen blasting through the neighborhood in the high-end cars — the LaFerrari is valued at $1.5 million — and later told an NBC Los Angeles reporter they had diplomatic immunity and “could have [him[ killed and get away with it,” according to their story.

Hoshino said police aren’t sure if the involved parties are still in Beverly Hills or not. Still, he was swift in his condemnation of a video that has outraged millions of people.

“The driving they’re involved in is atrocious,” he said. “They’re putting everyone’s lives in danger driving like that.”

Where the case goes from here remains to be seen.

http://jalopnik.com/laferrari-asshats-who-terrorized-beverly-hills-do-not-r-1731196096

[timfogarty]

http://laist.com/2015/09/17/rich_jerks_caught_on_video_racing_c.php

Under pressure of a police investigation, the rich jerk who owned the cars seen tearing through Beverly Hills this weekend has fled the country, according to the State Department. The yellow LaFerrari and white Porsche, stars of the viral video, are also M.I.A..

The owner has been identified as Sheik Khalid bin Hamad Al-Thani of Qatar, the L.A. Times reports. Al-Thani was a racing enthusiast, and had invested more than $50 million into Al-Anabi Racing over the last six years, before mysteriously cutting off the sponsorship funding earlier this year.

Beverly Hills Police Department Chief Dominick Rivetti said at a news conference Thursday that the city will apply the law equally, regardless of "who you are, who you know or where you are from." This is vehement language coming from the authorities, who have admitted that the likelihood of gathering up enough evidence to charge the drivers is very slim. It's not clear whether Al-Thani was driving one of the cars himself; the video and photos taken didn't capture the drivers' faces. But those involved could be facing other legal issues: according to Rivetti, it's against federal law to claim diplomatic immunity when you don't actually have it. Plus, the LaFerrari—which had been brought in from Qatar—failed to register with the State Department.

Adam Bornstein, the car enthusiast who posted the now-viral video online, told the L.A. Times that the whole incident was "a spur-of-the-moment thing...for the whole car community, it's definitely a sad representation...Everybo dy's upset that this does not accurately represent what it's like."

[Agnostic007]

things you see when you don't have a brick handy

[Skeeter]

Change speeding fines to reflect income. Cockroaches like this would wipe their ass with a $200 speeding ticket.



http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2015/03/finland-home-of-the-103000-speeding-ticket/387484/

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/38660951/ns/world_news-europe/t/swede-could-face-huge-speeding-fine/#.VgGVZZfQMnk

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/multimillionaire-faces-130-000-speeding-ticket-article-1.1486072

[sync pulse]

Yes, if you have money for th car, take it to a track.

Rural winding road...

[Emmortal]

“Our officers weren’t there to observe the violations,” Hoshino said. Had they been present, the drivers could have been arrested, especially since U.S. State Department officials confirmed they do not have any sort of diplomatic immunity. “But we don’t know who was driving the car.”

And under California law, charges can’t proceed until that happens.

As a side note, this is why it's super easy to get out of red light tickets and paying fines for driving on toll roads.  A camera doesn't provide definitive proof of who's driving the car thus, getting an automated ticket sent to you can be defeated in court pretty easily.  In fact if you challenge them they never go to court really, they'll just drop it.