GatorRun Busted?!

[MaverickUF]

Just saw a plug on fox during the game, had a video of the white RS4 pulled over with a few other cars with numbers on them from the event, said "speeding down the highway? people hanging out of windows? why cops say these cars were racing"... details after the game.

If they had news crews, they had them yanked for awhile, everyone ok??

[LDadrenaline]

no one got arrested. quite a few were given multiple tickets.

[Silver Phoenix]

I just saw that too. Gonna stay up to watch it lol

But I'm not surprised that it happened, especially after how some pulled into the meet today :)

[MaverickUF]

Glad nobody's hurt/locked up, but yea, there was a lot of noise and smokin tires on the access road leaving today... don't get me wrong, nothing I like more than exotic cars converting sick horsepower into noise and smoke, but that begged for attention.

[Silver Phoenix]

I didn't even think to stay to see them leave :(

[LDadrenaline]

the main reason they got caught is because there were quite a few helicopters in the area because mcain and obama were both in orlando

[Benzgirl]

lol That sucks! Glad no one got arrested.

[Silver Phoenix]

the main reason they got caught is because there were quite a few helicopters in the area because mcain and obama were both in orlando

But imagine being able to say that Helicopters caught you? Way better than a cop on the side of the road about to fall asleep waiting for speeders lol

[MaverickUF]

I got caught by a Cessna in Boca about 5 years ago...

[914 Beauty]

the only way getting caught could have been better than the "copter catch", was if mccain or obama were racing along in the cop car after you!

[MaverickUF]

It was probably Obama. He saw a nice car, and said "I know a poor fucker in SoHo that could use that, I'm going to redistribute the wealth and give it to them because he's rich and they're poor". Fucker thinks he's robin hood.

[LDadrenaline]

ahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

[Oceanside A4]

"I got caught doing 150 past the presidential motorcade" would be a great line if it was possible. & " I outran the chopper" Is my quote

[914 Beauty]

:lmao:robin hood......... I have visions of him in the outfit the black guy in "Robin Hood, men in tights" wore!!!!!!!!!!!! :lmao: Achew!


and I can also see T shirts with the slogan "I outran the chopper" !!!!!!! :D

[Silver Phoenix]

That news segment blew. It was like 20 seconds long

[LDadrenaline]

..... i didnt even see it, ive been on fox the whole time

[Silver Phoenix]

..... i didnt even see it, ive been on fox the whole time

was on wesh. I posted on the other thread, Eyewitness 9 says its coming up next

[Silver Phoenix]

Wait, so is it pronounced Gator Run, or Gato Run? lol

[Viper3812]

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/myfox/pages/Home/Detail?contentId=7726936&version=2&locale=EN-US&layoutCode=TSTY&pageId=1.1.1

[914 Beauty]

"flashing lights and a slue of fancy cars" hmmm.... just exactly how many fancy cars does it take to make up a "slue"??? I may have been part of a slue in the past and not ever realized it! lol

[Benzgirl]

It was probably Obama. He saw a nice car, and said "I know a poor fucker in SoHo that could use that, I'm going to redistribute the wealth and give it to them because he's rich and they're poor". Fucker thinks he's robin hood.

Amen. :lmao:

[Uber Boosted873]

It was probably Obama. He saw a nice car, and said "I know a poor fucker in SoHo that could use that, I'm going to redistribute the wealth and give it to them because he's rich and they're poor". Fucker thinks he's robin hood.


:lmao::clap:best description of him ive ever heard. SPREAD THE WORD!

[LDadrenaline]

video from one of the passengers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZZs6S9rhGSk

[JRiggs]

end of that video "Its a arrestable offence for filming" that doesn't sound right

[LDadrenaline]

filming someone without their knowledge.... i.e. a police officer when they are letting someone off for an easily arrestable offense... lol

[A4ringedONE8T]

Yea damn did they get lucky!

[mrtall815]

i bet half of the cops that pulled them over were just happy to see those cars, and you can tell at the end of the video the guy didnt really care, they just did it because of the election, cus most cops know they wouldnt stand a chance to catch half of those cars

[McLovin]

Filming an officer while he is in public doing his duty is perfectly legal.

[Silver Phoenix]

I have only one comment for the video...

Why the fuck are they listening to Avril Lavigne!

[Silver Phoenix]

Filming an officer while he is in public doing his duty is perfectly legal.

+1, its all about being in public. I remember back in high school in TV production, we actually studied (the one thing we did study) was about the privacy laws and the legality between public and private places. Plus the cop can easily see the camera, so he knows its there, its not hidden in a lapel pin or anything

[surina777]

b/c i wanted to test out my video capturing / editing skills :clap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-rl_Mfen8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKbMBPdk-0

[.::M::.]

The film from the cop car, filming them is fine, shit look at mardi gras----everyones filming and cops are everywhere, or at a rally same deal. I think he was letting the driver know it was an arrestable offense, that hes lucky for getting off so easliy.

And avril lavigne? wtf....that is "complicated" or "complicayyytedd"

[The Mexican Next Door]

end of that video "Its a arrestable offence for filming" that doesn't sound right
it didnt sound right cuz the cop is a retarded and doesnt even know the law lol


i bet half of the cops that pulled them over were just happy to see those cars, and you can tell at the end of the video the guy didnt really care, they just did it because of the election, cus most cops know they wouldnt stand a chance to catch half of those cars
i want to know the actual story of what got called in.....speeding and agressive driving or they just did it cuz they saw a caravan of nice cars and were like well they look like fast cars lets pull them over

Filming an officer while he is in public doing his duty is perfectly legal.;)correct


I have only one comment for the video...

Why the fuck are they listening to Avril Lavigne!
the guys in the car was probably wishing she was his girlfriend :shifty:


+1, its all about being in public. I remember back in high school in TV production, we actually studied (the one thing we did study) was about the privacy laws and the legality between public and private places. Plus the cop can easily see the camera, so he knows its there, its not hidden in a lapel pin or anything
yeah you pretty much summed it up in an easy way

[The Mexican Next Door]

b/c i wanted to test out my video capturing / editing skills :clap:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2-rl_Mfen8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZKbMBPdk-0


man i feel left out since i wasnt one of those 10,000 participants lol

:roll:

[LDadrenaline]

hahahaha it even says on the website 50 people...

[badhombre]

I'm kind of surprised all of them even stopped. vids from cannon ball runs and other similar events, when the cops come up they pass em up like regular traffic lol

[McLovin]

....._
Gato Run LOL

[JonnyChimpO]

haha fancy cars :lol: streak racing :run:

[Bwoy1981]

I was there and was lucky to disappear into the normal traffic and get by the road block. It was crazy! It was like being in a movie!!

I must admit it was dangerous and reckless, but the cars were amazing! Once in a life time opportunity for me... lol

[LDadrenaline]

there were like 10 cop cars... pretty hard to escape that. and in a highly identifiable car, you arent very likely to get away

[Bwoy1981]

Well the cops blocked the middle and third lane first.. I was like the 20th car down and I didnt have numbers on my carso they didnt see me I guess. Me and the New sti got through along with one of the Porsche Gt3's. It was nerve recking tho..

[LDadrenaline]

yeah im sure they were targeting the guys with numbers.... im glad i decided not to follow them lol

[Bwoy1981]

link to my pics..

http://www.audizine.com/forum/showthread.php?t=242693

[1clean335i]

good times :clap:

[LDadrenaline]

still no pictures of my car :( oh well lol.

i didnt even notice the CF rims on the R8.... those are crazyawesomeballerasfuck

[surina777]

are we sick of the news coverage yet?

here's moarrr b/c i like to practice my video capturing skillz...i wonder how long before it gets pulled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7B-JcItv4

[LDadrenaline]

i like how they show the 330 as the "BMW"... did they not stop the e60 M5?

[1clean335i]

are we sick of the news coverage yet?

here's moarrr b/c i like to practice my video capturing skillz...i wonder how long before it gets pulled

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lP7B-JcItv4
hahaha... so they pretty much just said we can do what those gatorun guys did and not goto jail.... :lmao:

[ViperASR]

how stoked would you be to be that kid that was hanging out the side of the silver 3-series. He's all over the news.

Love the news coverage BTW. Thanks!

[MaverickUF]

The myjami boys need to work on their tunes; I watched a lot of the other youtube videos, sick cars, incriminating footage, but it reminds me of the scene in Talledega Nights when frenchy is lapping the track listening to mozart, sipping an espresso.

[racer m]

I have only one comment for the video...

Why the fuck are they listening to Avril Lavigne!
:gaydance::gayflag::gayfight:



how stoked would you be to be that kid that was hanging out the side of the silver 3-series. He's all over the news.

Love the news coverage BTW. Thanks!

That kid now a good story to tell his friends.

[McLovin]

If they keep up this negative coverage you will see some politician publicly come out against this. It's a safe issue. Everyone likes driving fast but when they word it as "street racing" it sounds so bad. If this keeps up the head of Gatorun needs to come out and try to work the press to his benefit.

[JRiggs]

some one needs to bring up the fact that gatorun raises money for charity to all these news stations that keep calling them street racers going to their secret race spots

[LDadrenaline]

ummmm pretty sure the gatorun doesnt give money to charity

[JRiggs]

^ well it sounded good didn't it o well i thunk i read that somewhere, thought the supported the save the titties foundation or something like that

it's what i would have told those cops without thinking twice

[mrtall815]

^ well it sounded good didn't it o well i thunk i read that somewhere, thought the supported the save the titties foundation or something like that

it's what i would have told those cops without thinking twice

lol, until the cop finds out you dont and gets even more pissed off

[Oceanside A4]

I still think they should give speed specific licenses to people based on skill, snow caps should never be allowed out of the slow lane, 16' yr olds should not be able to top out a brand new m3 without any driving experience. The autobahn system is much better suited to us in Florida due to our immense availability of long straight roads

[LDadrenaline]

you cant really give people different licenses. If a cop sees someone speeding and pulls them over to find out they have a license for it like 10 times then they are just wasting their time... But then someone without that specific license might get by because the cop stops caring. Just doesn't work lol. Only way would be to have something displayed on the outside of the car, but then that doesn't mean the driver of the car is the owner of the car...

[carguy101]

LD is this you in the screen capture of the video??

http://www.wftv.com/news/17808713/detail.html

if it is thats hilarious of how they picked u lol

[ViperASR]

LD is this you in the screen capture of the video??

http://www.wftv.com/news/17808713/detail.html

if it is thats hilarious of how they picked u lol

Its not him, the one in the screenshot is an STI, not a wagon.

Plus, I dont think LD stopped. No numbers and a stationwagon FTW.

[carguy101]

tru but in another video that wa on WESH says you cant arrested for street racing but you can for watching hahaha so whats the moral of this story?

[LDadrenaline]

no thats not me. I was very close to going with them through that stretch of I4, but knew I would do something stupid.... I would have been furious if I had gone with them and gotten caught. I never speed around and do dumb shit, so if the one time I did I got caught I would probably kill someone.

[ViperASR]

tru but in another video that wa on WESH says you cant arrested for street racing but you can for watching hahaha so whats the moral of this story?

god bless america

[Benzgirl]

^lolz

[19666falcon]

wow, that kid hanging out of the window is a star. Also lol at the media calling this street racing :lmao:

[ViperASR]

wow, that kid hanging out of the window is a star. Also lol at the media calling this street racing :lmao:

Thats because any group of performance cars that are traveling in a pack at speed are obviously all street racing, right?

Street racing has just become an umbrella term when they are really looking to give you the shaft. Luckly, some lawyers have found some good loopholes in it so its getting harder and harder to convict people of it.

[19666falcon]

Thats because any group of performance cars that are traveling in a pack at speed are obviously all street racing, right?

Street racing has just become an umbrella term when they are really looking to give you the shaft. Luckly, some lawyers have found some good loopholes in it so its getting harder and harder to convict people of it.
+1

[Kevlar]

you cant really give people different licenses. If a cop sees someone speeding and pulls them over to find out they have a license for it like 10 times then they are just wasting their time... But then someone without that specific license might get by because the cop stops caring. Just doesn't work lol. Only way would be to have something displayed on the outside of the car, but then that doesn't mean the driver of the car is the owner of the car...

Not true. They have difference licenses here in Australia, and I'm pretty sure they have a similar system some places in Europe.

Here, when you first get a license, you get a provisional license. You're limited to 80 km/h max (among some other restrictions). You get a square tag to display next to your license plate with a big red "P" on it. After you've had your P-plate for a while, you get a learner's license, and an L-plate. You're then limited to 90 km/h max. A while later, you move up to a 100 km/h max L-plate. Finally, after another year or so, you get an unrestricted license. There are written and road tests at each level (P plate -> L plate -> Second L plate -> Unrestricted). Granted, it seems like it would be a bit of a pain, but if it slows shitty drivers down, all the better.

[LDadrenaline]

but whats to restrict some idiot from borrowing their friends car with an L plate and speeding around in that? im just relating it to the law here that with a moving violation you cant ticket a car, you have to ticket the driver. Cop has no way of knowing who is driving unless they pull them over, which would mean lots of pulling people over.

[Kevlar]

Hm. Well, it's sort of the same way here. Obviously there's nothing to prevent people from breaking the law (P-platers driving a non-plated car), just as there's no way to really prevent someone from speeding. The point is that if they do get pulled over, they get even more reamed for being not only over the speed limit, but over their license restriction.

Oh, and if you have an unrestricted license and want to drive someone's P or L-plated car, the plates are usually put in little add-on plastic slots next to the license plate, so they're easy to remove.

(Interestingly though, you CAN ticket a car here. If you're driving a friend's car and get busted by a speed camera, they still send the owner the ticket, and it's the owner's responsibility to sort it out regardless.)