Lotus Vs Police :d

[MattyB]

"BlownK" is for sale here...

 

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=2467548572

 

If you've got some spare time, watch the vid ofhim getting busted (host is slow though, I only got 20k/s and its almost 100mb)

 

Undercover copper struggling to keep up with the Ferrari and Elise....oh how I laughed when, at the start, they dissapear up a slip road, pursuing copper says "fuuuucking hell!"

 

Not sure what they cops are in, but to use his words "were having a bit of trouble keeping up with them"

[Mark H]

heh, so it was you that was slowing my download then

 

They did struggle at the start, then it all went a lot more sensible due to busy traffic.

[MattyB]

I didn't know if it was because they "copped" (ha!) on to the police...

 

And didn't look like there was anything bad enough there for an 18month ban...seemed a bit harsh to me...

[Jonathan E]

Weren't these the guys that claimed in court that they didn't stop because they thought the unmarked police car behind them was a gang of hoods/carjackers who were going to steal thier very valuable cars,

Didn't work but an interesting defence.

Regards

Jon

[Scott_Mac]

Can someone host it somewhere a little quicker... i can't d/l it from the link

[Skute]

I just tried downloading it to host it on my site but the damn thing timed out after 35%. And that was after about 3 hours! Knew i shouldnt have un-installed GetRight yesterday!

[Ladders]

Hardly Driving like maniacs!

 

Wern't even doing anything wrong when the cops started chasing them!

 

Being banned seams a bit harsh!

[Bramble111s]

Hmmm, I got to about 12% after 3 hours, gave up....

[Zebedee79]

I downloaded it this lunchtime, and agree ban seems a bit harsh.

 

IIRC the only actual taped speed of them was 61.33 mph.

 

Telling comment was Police Officer saying "F**K him, don't stop now - I'm having a good time"

[Kris H]

I can't download it either on broadband, or at least not before I retire in 30 years. Someone should consider it their duty to sort it out I feel...

[Kris H]

Hello to Zebedee79 as well, by the way!

[Mark H]

I didn't know if it was because they "copped" (ha!) on to the police...

 

And didn't look like there was anything bad enough there for an 18month ban...seemed a bit harsh to me...

It was a 6 month ban but the previous history is what got the longer time.

 

 

Ferrari and Lotus drivers led police on high-speed chase

By Matt Born

(Filed: 22/10/2002)

 

 

Two City workers were fined and banned from driving yesterday after leading police on a high-speed chase through London in their high-performance sports cars.

 

 

 

The highly-paid IT consultants, one in a Ferrari and the other in a Lotus, sped around blind bends and roundabouts, ran a red light and accelerated so fast over a bridge that officers were unable to get a reading of how fast they were going, Southwark Crown Court was told.

 

At one point, the unmarked police car following them reached 86 mph on a busy road, only for the two sports cars to accelerate again and leave it trailing in their wake.

 

Brian Hooper, 28, who owned the Ferrari, and Jonathon Waring, 21, who was driving his Lotus, were convicted of careless driving last year, despite claiming that they thought the unmarked black Vauxhall Omega following them contained would-be carjackers.

 

Judge Stephen Robbins disqualified Waring, who had six points on his licence for previous speeding offences, for six months. Hooper was banned for six weeks.

 

He fined them each £500 and ordered them to pay £800 towards prosecution costs, saying: "You both drove at speeds that demonstrated little consideration for other road users."

 

The judge also ordered both to pay their defence costs after expressing "surprise" that they had been legally aided. Waring earns about £90,000 a year before bonuses working for Barclays Bank while Hooper was paid about £96,000 last year.

 

Hooper, of Limehouse, east London, and Waring, of nearby Poplar, were first seen by police at about 8.20pm one Friday as they headed eastwards out of the capital.

 

Officers watched as Hooper's red Ferrari and Waring's blue and white Lotus emerged from the Limehouse Link tunnel in east London, and decided to follow them "on a whim".

 

After joining a three-lane carriageway, the two super cars, by this time being filmed by the onboard police camera, immediately accelerated. "We reached 75mph and they were travelling faster, leaving us," Pc Steven Willis told the court.

 

In evidence, Waring said Hooper had called him on his mobile phone to warn him that they were being followed by a black saloon and that it could contain car-jackers.

[MattyB]

sped around blind bends and roundabouts, ran a red light and accelerated so fast over a bridge that officers were unable to get a reading of how fast they were going

 

convicted of dangerous driving

 

both drove at speeds that demonstrated little consideration for other road users

 

Un-f*cking believable - if thats what passes for dangerous driving, then 1/2 the people I see on the road would be banned.

[Jonathan E]

I think the coppers"How old is he" comment at the start or words to that effect just about sums it up,remember in the UK these days you have to be seen to earn less than your average policeman not to mention have a less flashy car,its not just the criminals that are jealous,when I got pulled for no front plate a couple of months ago(genuine case its always on except i'd had a fight with the speed hump on the way out of work) The cops wanted to know the ins and outs of the cats ar*e,where I worked what hours must be a well paid job etc etc,I felt like telling them where to go but then I would have got more than just a producer,and then I get my council tax bill on friday and the buggers are getting a 14.9% increase,Sometimes it really gets my goat,so the guys had fast expensive flash cars at a young age...whats the problem, they earn the money, they spend the money they would have got a lesser ban if they'd been driving with no tax insurance mot etc etc.

Sorry rant over

Regards

Jon

[MattyB]

Fair play though - £90k a year at 21, I'd be jealous too