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General => Random Chat => Topic started by: Kalpsn2000 on August 24, 2012, 11:49:37 am
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Guy gets 9 years after a 185MPH police chase in a RS5 with a lambo engine.
Story:
http://thecount.com/2012/08/23/uk-man-sentenced-9-years-for-185mph-high-speed-police-chase/
Video:
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Would love to own that Audi :happy2:
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are we sure it actually has a lambo engine? or that it's been reported as such because the press doesn't know anything about cars?
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There's so much wrong with how that story has been reported:
- "Perfect handbrake stunt" was very very far from perfect and didn't even look like a handbrake turn at all.
- Saw 85 mph on the Police camera in the built-up area but not 185 mph. But I don't doubt he high speeded on the dual carriageway section as filmed by the helicopter.
- If the guy could afford to put a Lambo engine in a RS5 then would he be stealing from a shop - It didn't look like he was stealing goods of especially high value.
- I expect the RS5 was stolen but that hasn't been included by the 'reporter'.
- Just because Lamborghini are part of VAG doesn't mean that all VAG cars such as Audi's have Lambo engines!
This 'reporter' isn't a press professional by the looks of things. But many of the press are rarely very professional anyway.
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Didn't know there was a Lambo with the Audi n/a 4.2 V8? :confused:
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A 'slighty' better written article:
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/180mph-getaway-raider-ben-westwood-1276011
BBC's take:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-19347144
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Why is this report about his 180mph antics? The real crime here is he was a robbing ****, turning people's houses over. The getaway was inconsequential to this.
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Why is this report about his 180mph antics? The real crime here is he was a robbing ****, turning people's houses over. The getaway was inconsequential to this.
Audi must have paid for the advertising :wink:
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Why is this report about his 180mph antics? The real crime here is he was a robbing ****, turning people's houses over. The getaway was inconsequential to this.
Given the rather rubbish choice of my car being hit by another car while my family is it and having some stuff taken from my house. I'd much rather the latter I can always get more stuff. I'm not sure I'd walk away from 110 mph speed difference crash. If you've seen the 100 mph+ crash into a wall the car just disappears.
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i havnt read the full story but i think 9 years is very harsh
especially when someone who has just killed 77 people has just recieved 21 years
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i havnt read the full story but i think 9 years is very harsh
especially when someone who has just killed 77 people has just recieved 21 years
Now that was shocking he should be given life
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Why is this report about his 180mph antics? The real crime here is he was a robbing ****, turning people's houses over. The getaway was inconsequential to this.
Given the rather rubbish choice of my car being hit by another car while my family is it and having some stuff taken from my house. I'd much rather the latter I can always get more stuff. I'm not sure I'd walk away from 110 mph speed difference crash. If you've seen the 100 mph+ crash into a wall the car just disappears.
No, I've obviously not made myself clear there.
He got 9 years for burgling people's houses. He was a serial thief. All the press seem to be focussing on however is the 180mph blat down the M6, which probably in isolation would only have netted him a long ban and a big fine.
He's a **** yet seems to be gathering some Internet hero points because all people are reading is he drove a getaway car fast. Ignoring the misery he's enflicted on people for years.
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i havnt read the full story but i think 9 years is very harsh
especially when someone who has just killed 77 people has just recieved 21 years
Now that was shocking he should be given life
it was the maximum sentence. although unlike this country he will actaully do 21 years
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i havnt read the full story but i think 9 years is very harsh
especially when someone who has just killed 77 people has just recieved 21 years
Now that was shocking he should be given life
it was the maximum sentence. although unlike this country he will actaully do 21 years
Breivik is not doing time in this country. Anyway thats off topic.
EDIT: Sorry read your reply wrong :ashamed: Yes agree % of sentences completed in the UK.
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i havnt read the full story but i think 9 years is very harsh
especially when someone who has just killed 77 people has just recieved 21 years
That was the max they could give in Norway....it can be extended aswell
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There does not appear to be any evidence that the 185mph was ever done , is there ?
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Did the reporter get confused and think it was the RS6 (which did have 5L V10 engine in it).
9 Years, the scrote deserved it, if they routinely banged up burglers and car thieves for 10 years a time, they might actually stop doing it :happy2:
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There does not appear to be any evidence that the 185mph was ever done , is there ?
Since when did the press let facts get in the way of a good story?
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The helicopter footage is good, you can see the heat from the exhaust gases, looks like flames coming out of the back, as he guns it as he does the U turn on to the motorway.
Incredible the detail that the thermal cmareas can pick up :happy2:
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The wheels were glowing just as bright as what was coming out of the exhaust too!! :surprised:
They said on the news last night that the ground units couldn't get near it and the helicopter struggled too!! :scared:
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They said on the news last night that the ground units couldn't get near it and the helicopter struggled too!! :scared:
Obviously driving it like he stole it. :ashamed:
I'll get me coat. :laugh:
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Only 2 in the UK?
My god. The press love these 'facts' to jump up their stories. Deserves more than 9 years if you ask me. All the misery and money they cost hard working people is worth more than 9 years which he will see 4 and a half at best. sh*t country :fighting: