Boasting about speeding online leads to a conviction

Owen

From /.

In Canada a nineteen-year-old man has lost his driving license for six months and is facing one year of probation after the police arrested him for dangerous driving as a result of a post on an online message board. The tip apparently came from an uninvolved American who called the Canadian authorities after he saw the post bragging about how fast the man went.

Now where did I put that delete button ...

djimi

And thats why Im very careful never to mention the specifics of anything on the internet...

af_thefragile

Where did that fastest you've travelled on land thread go...?

Cionád

19 year old with an M5... :eek:

Owen

Prices for BMW's in the states are quite low. Especially compared to Europe. No idea why, it's like us Europeans are subsidising the yanks cars. I looked at fantasy speccing up a MINI before, UK price versus American. The American car came in almost 10k Euro cheaper, and still had more equpiment!

bmw535d

why didn't he say he was lying and just making it up.

yea in america most people 19 have 3 years driving experience. tax is cheap, petrol is cheap, cars are cheap. so stuff like m5's Porsche's etc are them norm. some chance of that happening here.

Cookie_Monster

how can they prove it though.

"I did 120 mph yesterday on the M50"

how can anyone prove or disprove that by internet comment?

cantdecide

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

how can they prove it though.

"I did 120 mph yesterday on the M50"

how can anyone prove or disprove that by internet comment?

Cos I saw you too.

'Scuse me, I have to make an anonymous phone call

keithclancy

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

how can they prove it though.

"I did 120 mph yesterday on the M50"

how can anyone prove or disprove that by internet comment?

I would assume there would have to be matching statements by someone who witnessed it:

Police investigated the case and arrested Rigenco on April 16 and charged him with careless driving.

Vertakill

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

"I did 120 mph yesterday on the M50"

Anyone got the number for the nearest Garda station to Cabinteely?

Cookie_Monster

Vertakill wrote: »

Anyone got the number for the nearest Garda station to Cabinteely?

well I didn't actually, it was only 120kph but anyway, you can't prove it. don't know when, where, car reg, what I look like, live etc...

all seems a bit mad. anyone on the net could club together with a few other users to claim they saw Mr x on road y at time z doing "**** I've run out of letter" mph.

vectra

Sounds very suspect to me to be honest.
"Innocent until PROVEN guilty" springs to mind.
How could the police prove it??

robbie99

This is the OP...

bmw550ifreak wrote:

Going 140 km/h on a 40 zone.

The title says it all basically. Anyways, yesterday I was going back home during the day time after the GYM, and when I hit the street next to my house " Appleblosom dr" the zone there is 40 km/h, as soon as I turn into that street, I stopped the car, pressed the (M) button, DSC off, max short shift, and take off 1st gear ( 8000 RPM, switch) and so on... I hit 140 in like 6 or less seconds lol, some old guy was standing on the sidewalk tlaking to another guy, he had a pencil and a paper, he decides to run into my car to stop me, but I was too fast. Do you think he could tka emy liscence number ? lol I think I was too fast, I really doubt that. Though, I gotta admit, I cant stop racing with this car, beleive it or not, I killed a black E63 AMG Last week on Dufferin street. It was almost equal but in the end I had more power.

From this thread...
http://forums.5series.net/topic/95495-going-140-kmh-on-a-40-zone

CarMuppet

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/845967--gta-man-convicted-of-careless-driving-after-bragging-online-about-speeding

QUOTE "Rigenco was originally charged with stunt driving and dangerous operation of a motor vehicle — charges which, if he was convicted, could have left him with a criminal record."

QUOTE "Spektor describes Rigenco as a brilliant student who was offered scholarships from Ryerson, York and the University of Toronto. He wants to be a pilot."

A pilot? I'll never fly again even if this guy just gets a PPL!

Atomic Pineapple

robbie99 wrote: »

The is the OP...


From this thread...
http://forums.5series.net/topic/95495-going-140-kmh-on-a-40-zone

Classic example of why some 19 year old's shouldn't be in anything faster than a Corsa.

I'm glad insurance and other costs kept me in a Fiesta until I was mature enough for something with more power.

Prabhu Deva

i utterly despise the little busybody squealer who reported him. to me that kind of mentality is worse than tearing through a village at 120mph in an electric car nobody can hear at 10 past 3 in the afternoon when there are kids everywhere

Vertakill

Prabhu Deva wrote: »

i utterly despise the little busybody squealer who reported him. to me that kind of mentality is worse than tearing through a village at 120mph in an electric car nobody can hear at 10 past 3 in the afternoon when there are kids everywhere

You deserve a nomination for most ridiculous post ever.


How is the act of reporting someone who is going 100kph over the speed limit in a residential area worse than someone driving an electric car at 120mph by a busy school?

Did you actually even think before you posted that?

Absurdum

*****s himself*

focus_mad

Prabhu Deva wrote: »

i utterly despise the little busybody squealer who reported him. to me that kind of mentality is worse than tearing through a village at 120mph in an electric car nobody can hear at 10 past 3 in the afternoon when there are kids everywhere

Thats a ridiculous post, if you did that speed in a village or town and you knocked a pedestrian over you deserve to get the s**t kicked out of you in my opinion.:D

Prabhu Deva

focus_mad wrote: »

Thats a ridiculous post, if you did that speed in a village or town and you knocked a pedestrian over you deserve to get the s**t kicked out of you in my opinion.:D

so does the snitch who goes around reporting anyone for not obeying the law to the letter, going around making everyone else's life hard by feeding the police with easy targets.

snitches like this rarely realise that it works both ways - if they slip up someday with something they will get squealed on too. its not healthy, turns ordinary people against each other and the only people who gain from it are those collecting the fines

Eric Cartman

sounds like somebody was jealous...
bastard in an m5

focus_mad

Prabhu Deva wrote: »

so does the snitch who goes around reporting anyone for not obeying the law to the letter, going around making everyone else's life hard by feeding the police with easy targets.

snitches like this rarely realise that it works both ways - if they slip up someday with something they will get squealed on too. its not healthy, turns ordinary people against each other and the only people who gain from it are those collecting the fines

Well from the sounds of this you obviously did something in the past, someone reported it and yezzer got in trouble..?

There are two versions of snitches, i.e the type that look out their window all day just waiting for something to happen and then the type that see something that is considered dangerous and believe it should be acted upon without doing something illegal themselves..i.e Some t**t speeding in a residental / built up area, my options would be

a) Ring the Gardai, explain the situation and let them judge but at least I know I did the right thing in case this fella or girl ends up toppling the car into a garden

or

b) do nothing and then hear that the driver hit someone maybe not today or tomorrow but a month down the road

There are other options in different situations but this is just in a driving situation.

I have sped myself on occasions but never in residental areas. Why? The risks to myself in getting caught or fined and more importantly the chances of a child running on to the road are just way too high...

I know myself if one of my kids were knocked down by someone speeding through the neighbourhood there would be severe damage done

BigEejit

to be honest I dont think anyone would have said anything to the driver if he was going 10mph over the limit ....but 87mph in a what is likely to be a residential area (25mph limit). deserved a kick in the hole at the very least.


(I cannot picture the speed he was doing in my head without converting to mph ...... dont drive enough in Ireland/Europe to get used to kph)

DonJose

Prabhu Deva wrote: »

i utterly despise the little busybody squealer who reported him. to me that kind of mentality is worse than tearing through a village at 120mph in an electric car nobody can hear at 10 past 3 in the afternoon when there are kids everywhere

LOL posts like this make Peter Griffin sound intelligent!!!

fonecrusher1

Cookie_Monster wrote: »

"I did 120 mph yesterday on the M50"

Pah!:rolleyes: call that fast? I did double that the other day.







In my 1.4 corolla.:(

kazul

Prabhu Deva wrote: »

tearing through a village at 120mph in an electric car nobody can hear at 10 past 3 in the afternoon when there are kids everywhere

Good luck with that. Unless it's a Tesla I'll have the Guinness Book of Records on standby.
Come back when you have a logical/real/reasonable/sane point to make

af_thefragile

kazul wrote: »

Good luck with that. Unless it's a Tesla I'll have the Guinness Book of Records on standby.
Come back when you have a logical/real/reasonable/sane point to make

Actually even the Tesla struggles to do 120mph... And at that speed your batteries aren't going to last you very long...

unkel

Cionád wrote: »

19 year old with an M5... :eek:

The last time a boy driving an M5 was boasting about it on the internet, it ended in tears. Killed himself and his 4 mates when his car took off at the end of an airstrip in Florida. Google it or search m5board.com. He was boasting, people told him to be careful, then the thread went quiet, then someone posted about an accident and then people started to realise it was him...

Midnight_EG

unkel wrote: »

The last time a boy driving an M5 was boasting about it on the internet, it ended in tears. Killed himself and his 4 mates when his car took off at the end of an airstrip in Florida. Google it or search m5board.com. He was boasting, people told him to be careful, then the thread went quiet, then someone posted about an accident and then people started to realise it was him...

For anyone so inclined, here's that thread.

r3nu4l

Prabhu Deva wrote: »

i utterly despise the little busybody squealer who reported him. to me that kind of mentality is worse than tearing through a village at 120mph in an electric car nobody can hear at 10 past 3 in the afternoon when there are kids everywhere

Prabhu Deva wrote: »

so does the snitch who goes around reporting anyone for not obeying the law to the letter, going around making everyone else's life hard by feeding the police with easy targets.

snitches like this rarely realise that it works both ways - if they slip up someday with something they will get squealed on too. its not healthy, turns ordinary people against each other and the only people who gain from it are those collecting the fines

Here's the answer to that from the same thread the moron posted in:

Click

v_therussian wrote:

In all fairness, all you haters knocking on whoever "ratted", none of you know what people on this forum do for each other and what type of a close-knit community this is. That's why it looked like someone "ratted" someone out and like "it wasn't so bad". You all say this now, but if - God forbid! - an accident claimed several lives because of Vlad's careless driving, you'd all be saying "how come nobody bothered to report him?"- don't we all know you, you "average Joes"? Media shapes your opinions daily, here's your chance to give back.

r3nu4l

Midnight_EG wrote: »

For anyone so inclined, here's that thread.

And the corresponding Crash Report thread where they are discussing it and then slowly realise AmericaM5 was the driver!

Very sad indeed

Midnight_EG

r3nu4l wrote: »

And the corresponding Crash Report thread where they are discussing it and then slowly realise AmericaM5 was the driver!

Very sad indeed

I figured people would find the link within the original thread

r3nu4l

Midnight_EG wrote: »

I figured people would find the link within the original thread

You would think so but experience has shown me that this isn't always the case Most regulars on this forum would spot it and follow it but there's always one who won't!
I keep forgetting that not everyone is as forum literate as people here...it's only when I'm home with my parents that I realise sometimes it's better to point out 'the bleedin' obvious' because apparently it's not always 'bleedin' obvious' :pac: Thanks for the original link btw, hadn't seen that before!

unkel

From Midnight's link this is where someone gets it. AmericanM5 was the OP of the thread - the teenager boasting about driving "his" (it wasn't his, it was his daddy's) M5. Post #46 BTW

Airstrip Crash- Florida- 5 killed

Hey, AmericanM5 lives in Florida, is 18, drives a grey M5, signed one of the posts (#28 in this thread) above "Josh" ..OMG.. -- I hope this is not him.