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Wedding rush: Mercedes Benz speedster arrested clocking 210km/h
- Thread starter schumi
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Que the Movie: My Fair Lady
I'm getting married in the morning!
Ding dong! The bells are gonna chime.
Pull out the stopper!
Let's have a whopper!
But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the mornin'
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Girls, come and kiss me;
Show how you'll miss me.
But get me to the church on time!
If I am dancin'
Roll up the floor.
If I am whistlin'
Whewt me out the door!
For! I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Kick up an rumpus
But don't lose the compass;
And get me to the church,
Get me to the church,
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
[video=youtube;MZip6SkMZsc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZip6SkMZsc[/video]
I'm getting married in the morning!
Ding dong! The bells are gonna chime.
Pull out the stopper!
Let's have a whopper!
But get me to the church on time!
I gotta be there in the mornin'
Spruced up and lookin' in me prime.
Girls, come and kiss me;
Show how you'll miss me.
But get me to the church on time!
If I am dancin'
Roll up the floor.
If I am whistlin'
Whewt me out the door!
For! I'm gettin' married in the mornin'
Ding dong! the bells are gonna chime.
Kick up an rumpus
But don't lose the compass;
And get me to the church,
Get me to the church,
For Gawd's sake, get me to the church on time!
[video=youtube;MZip6SkMZsc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZip6SkMZsc[/video]
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supersunbird
Honorary Master
Good, he ended up missing the thing he was late for. Should have left in time...
daveza
Honorary Master
Revoke drivers license, crush car, done.
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If you reverted to mph it would not sound as fast. How dangerous was it?
That depends on the conditions at the time. But you have to obey the law.
Why crush the car?
LCBXX
Honorary Master
Revoke/suspend his licence yes but why destroy the car?
daveza
Honorary Master
Because ****ers like this will just ignore the revoked license.
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With this type of thinking, should we not rather bulldoze his home too and take all his worldly possessions? Just in case he doesn't get the message with the car?
satanboy
Psychonaut seven
Did he make it on time?
:twisted:
LCBXX
Honorary Master
I hear you and please do not think I am trying to excuse his conduct. You may have a point in him ignoring it but that deals with the lack of law enforcement which is, IMO, the primary cause of this incident and probably the reason why the fscker too the chance to drive as fast as he did, thinking he will not get caught.
LCBXX
Honorary Master
There are plenty closed courses and organised events where people can go and jaag.
Sounds like a terrible idea for a Purge sequel.
R13...
Honorary Master
They should also impound the car for about 2 weeks in addition to the arrest. Yesterday there was some idiot racing up and down our road in an RS3 with the front plates off, he'd speed to the top of the road then race back down challenging others and ****. Idiot.
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they need to do this here:
Lonely Texas Highway Becomes High-Speed Racetrack
SANDERSON, Tex. (AP) — Once a year, to the delight of speed demons from around the country, a stretch of normally deserted highway becomes a Texas version of the autobahn — a road with no speed limit.
And better yet, the traffic cops allow it. They have been known to encourage the speeders who sometimes top 160 miles per hour.
“It’s like grown-up summer camp,” said Lester Pittenger, a 55-year-old retired social worker from Somerville, N.J.
Pittenger drove his white 2001 Corvette 1,965 miles to West Texas to take part in this weekend’s Big Bend Open Road Race, one of only a handful of opportunities for people with fast cars to go real fast — legally — on a regular highway.
“People can hardly believe it when you tell them about this,” he said. “They go like: ‘You’ve got to be kidding. Race 120 miles on a public highway?’ But it’s true.”
Pittenger is among 160 drivers who paid a minimum of $300 — most pay much more depending on how fast they want to go — for the privilege of maybe skidding off U.S. Highway 285.
“It’s just a hobby, an expensive hobby at that,” said Houghton Furr, a 66-year-old retired financial examiner who brought his 2001 Chevrolet Camaro from Nebraska to run the 118-mile trip from Fort Stockton to Sanderson and back. The road features 59 turns and elevation changes, like one that takes a driver roaring through a gap carved out of the top of a mesa and diving to the desert valley hundreds of feet below.
The annual event, now more than a decade old, had a waiting list this year despite only word of mouth and no advertising, said Kenda Furman, one of the race directors.
“We’re kind of known as the most challenging open road race in the world,” she said.
The event required a state permit to close the road for much of Saturday after officials scrutinized a safety plan and approved “a pile of paperwork with an enormous amount of insurance,” Furman said.
A similar race is held in Nebraska annually, and another is set for Nevada, where drivers said organized open road racing gained traction in the United States in recent years. A century ago, in the very early days of motorsports, open road courses were famous in France, near Le Mans.
People came to Texas this week from as far north as Calgary, Alberta. Others were from South Dakota, California and the East Coast. The influx nearly doubles Sanderson’s population of about 750. The former wool shipping center bills itself as the Cactus Capital of Texas. It was just north of the Rio Grande about 240 miles west of San Antonio and was nearly wiped out in 1965 by a flash flood that killed 27 people.
The other end of the course is Fort Stockton, an Army outpost established in 1858, abandoned during the Civil War, then re-established in 1867 during the Indian Wars. About 8,500 people live there.
There are 17 speed classes in which drivers run against the clock. The “street rod” class aims to average 85 m.p.h. to 95 m.p.h. over the two 59-mile passes. Speeds go up incrementally in each of the next classes and top out with serious lead foots in the unlimited class, where speeds can top 160 m.p.h.
Each driver gets an individual green light to start, with a minute or two separating each departure. The classes are staggered as well, with the fastest group going first, then the next fastest, and so on. The course is set up so that all classes must be done before the racers begin the return leg to Fort Stockton. That ensures the cars do not pass each other going in opposite directions on the mostly two-lane asphalt road.
Approved racing helmets are required, but regular seat belts are sufficient for the lowest class. The more serious classes require rollover protection, five- or six-point restraints more typical of race cars, and fire-resistant clothing.
Most cars are street legal and were driven from home, but some serious racers bring their cars on trailers or haulers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/sports/autoracing/26bigbend.html
Lonely Texas Highway Becomes High-Speed Racetrack
SANDERSON, Tex. (AP) — Once a year, to the delight of speed demons from around the country, a stretch of normally deserted highway becomes a Texas version of the autobahn — a road with no speed limit.
And better yet, the traffic cops allow it. They have been known to encourage the speeders who sometimes top 160 miles per hour.
“It’s like grown-up summer camp,” said Lester Pittenger, a 55-year-old retired social worker from Somerville, N.J.
Pittenger drove his white 2001 Corvette 1,965 miles to West Texas to take part in this weekend’s Big Bend Open Road Race, one of only a handful of opportunities for people with fast cars to go real fast — legally — on a regular highway.
“People can hardly believe it when you tell them about this,” he said. “They go like: ‘You’ve got to be kidding. Race 120 miles on a public highway?’ But it’s true.”
Pittenger is among 160 drivers who paid a minimum of $300 — most pay much more depending on how fast they want to go — for the privilege of maybe skidding off U.S. Highway 285.
“It’s just a hobby, an expensive hobby at that,” said Houghton Furr, a 66-year-old retired financial examiner who brought his 2001 Chevrolet Camaro from Nebraska to run the 118-mile trip from Fort Stockton to Sanderson and back. The road features 59 turns and elevation changes, like one that takes a driver roaring through a gap carved out of the top of a mesa and diving to the desert valley hundreds of feet below.
The annual event, now more than a decade old, had a waiting list this year despite only word of mouth and no advertising, said Kenda Furman, one of the race directors.
“We’re kind of known as the most challenging open road race in the world,” she said.
The event required a state permit to close the road for much of Saturday after officials scrutinized a safety plan and approved “a pile of paperwork with an enormous amount of insurance,” Furman said.
A similar race is held in Nebraska annually, and another is set for Nevada, where drivers said organized open road racing gained traction in the United States in recent years. A century ago, in the very early days of motorsports, open road courses were famous in France, near Le Mans.
People came to Texas this week from as far north as Calgary, Alberta. Others were from South Dakota, California and the East Coast. The influx nearly doubles Sanderson’s population of about 750. The former wool shipping center bills itself as the Cactus Capital of Texas. It was just north of the Rio Grande about 240 miles west of San Antonio and was nearly wiped out in 1965 by a flash flood that killed 27 people.
The other end of the course is Fort Stockton, an Army outpost established in 1858, abandoned during the Civil War, then re-established in 1867 during the Indian Wars. About 8,500 people live there.
There are 17 speed classes in which drivers run against the clock. The “street rod” class aims to average 85 m.p.h. to 95 m.p.h. over the two 59-mile passes. Speeds go up incrementally in each of the next classes and top out with serious lead foots in the unlimited class, where speeds can top 160 m.p.h.
Each driver gets an individual green light to start, with a minute or two separating each departure. The classes are staggered as well, with the fastest group going first, then the next fastest, and so on. The course is set up so that all classes must be done before the racers begin the return leg to Fort Stockton. That ensures the cars do not pass each other going in opposite directions on the mostly two-lane asphalt road.
Approved racing helmets are required, but regular seat belts are sufficient for the lowest class. The more serious classes require rollover protection, five- or six-point restraints more typical of race cars, and fire-resistant clothing.
Most cars are street legal and were driven from home, but some serious racers bring their cars on trailers or haulers.
https://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/sports/autoracing/26bigbend.html
Venomous
Honorary Master
So then take his license away and impound the car until X months or years pass. And the cops can charge storage fees.
