Posted on 09/16/2015 2:03:50 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Police are investigating a street race between two high-performance exotic cars in Beverly Hills that garnered hundreds of thousands of views on YouTube — and the man claiming to own the cars says he is protected by diplomatic immunity.
The video shows a white Porsche 911 and a yellow Ferrari LaFerrari, a hybrid supercar with a combined horsepower rating of around 950, speeding through a residential tract at high speeds on Saturday evening in the 700 block of North Walden Drive. It includes an exchange between a journalist who captured the video and a man outside the house where the Ferrari was parked.
Video journalist Jacob Rogers said the man confronted him over his filming.
"He told me verbatim, 'I could have you killed and get away with it,'" Rogers said. "I told him, 'the press is allowed to be here on the sidewalk on a public street.' He said, '(Expletive) America' and threw a cigarette at me."
At one point the cars speed through a stop sign. The LaFerrari appears to nearly sideswipe the car of another motorist that's not involved in the street race. The video ends when the Ferrari's engine starts smoking and pulls back into the driveway. Police could be seen arriving in the neighborhood.
A new LaFerrari carries a price tag of about $1.5 million, but KBB told NBC4 the car could fetch up to $5 million. Neighbors were furious.
"The kids were terrified and the neighbors were out and this woman was screaming 'cause her husband almost got run over," said Roya Levian.
Police said they did not see the violations and "could not take any law enforcement action such as a citation or arrest," according to a news release.
While police were conducting their investigation, they were approached by a man who said the vehicles belonged to him and denied speeding, running stop signs or driving recklessly.
He said he had diplomatic immunity.
Police said they have been in contact with the United States State Department about the diplomatic status of the people involved and the legality of the vehicles driven on the road. The license plate of the Ferrari belonged to Qatar.
The renters of the $10 million home where the cars were seen did not want to talk to NBC4 on Monday.
Speed humps?
$10 million dollar houses there
that rent for $45,000.00 per month
this Muslim scum needs to be strung up and quartered, and then fed to the hogs
a terrible ting to do to the hogs, but still....
Lot of smoke coming out of that LaFarrari’s engine bay at the end of the video.
Boy, Howdy! Wouldn't that be a giggle! We send the diplomat's son home in a gallon baggie.
Kinda like feeding a lawyer to a shark!!!!
I bet the neighbors would be REALLY UPSET is someone poured a can of gas on each car before igniting them with a highway flare.
A SA woman with diplomatic immunity ran into the back of my brother in Dallas and broke his neck. It could have been a lot worse, but he had to change job to one where he wasn't expected to lift much. And he had no recourse against her.
great example!
a terrible, terrible, terrible thing to do to the shark
This POS needs to meet a Louisville Slugger . . .
with immunity of course..
The idiot cooked his motor.
That’s going to cost a lot!
He better be careful. Some people would blow out his camel jockey lamp and not really care if the get away with it.
And he sure as hell can be expelled and send back to the sandbox.
anyone want to pay $45,000.00 per month
rent to live in a house
and discover you have hostile, aggressive, mean IslamoNazi trash gangsters (friends-of-BHO types) driving $500,000 cars around your home at 120 mph and telling the local police to Shove It?
if so, here’s your rental opportunity!
(note this being at the EXACT address mentioned in the article)
http://www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/700-Walden-Dr_Beverly-Hills_CA_90210_M11973-70006
Tossing an 8X8X16 cinder block in front of the car as it speeds down the street would be fun too.
That would take that car out really fast
He must be a horrible driver. I’m sure it takes a lot of stupidity to blow the engine in one of those.
His cars don’t have diplomatic inmunity.
Young wealthy Gulf State guys do this in London for 2 months or so, every year, also.
At that time, nearly EVERY exotic car driving around is owned by those guys —they have them flown and shipped in specially, just for that season in London.
They’re competing against each other and making connections they’ll later use when they’re back home and get married.
They do not believe that the rules apply to them.
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