'supercars' seized in London

[comfortablynumb]

Yeah, about that.....😜

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8nqrgqng1o.amp

Sorry not good with links, but made me smile 

[comfortablynumb]

Just realised this could have gone in the grin thread, so mods please could you move?

Sorry I'm new here 🤦

[sierraman]

Good. Hopefully they’ll stick the lot through the baler and issue a suitably large fine. 

[goosey]

On my way back home last night on the M25 I noticed quite a few high end cars on what looked like Dubai registration plates driving like absolute bell ends 

[jim89]

32 minutes ago, comfortablynumb said:

Yeah, about that.....😜

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cp8nqrgqng1o.amp

Sorry not good with links, but made me smile 

OI! LIPPU!!

[captain_70s]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Good. Hopefully they’ll stick the lot through the baler and issue a suitably large fine. 

The owners are so wealthy they probably won't notice. These cars are pocket change motors for using while they're away from home.

[sierraman]

Just now, captain_70s said:

The owners are so wealthy they probably won't notice. These cars are pocket change motors for using while they're away from home.

I’m fairly sure something suitably onerous could be out in place in the form of refusing a visa. 

[Asimo]

1 hour ago, sierraman said:

Hopefully they’ll stick the lot through the baler

Would be better to sell at public auction. Money to go towards the cost of policing these tossers.

[jim89]

23 minutes ago, sierraman said:

I’m fairly sure something suitably onerous could be out in place in the form of refusing a visa. 

Hmmm upsetting the antithesis of "boat people"? Probably not going to happen is it?

[sierraman]

17 minutes ago, Asimo said:

Would be better to sell at public auction. Money to go towards the cost of policing these tossers.

Probably right, £200k or whatever they’re worth would be better in employing some more police or in the NHS. 

[sierraman]

Just now, jim89 said:

Hmmm upsetting the antithesis of "boat people"? Probably not going to happen is it?

I don’t think people arriving in boats or under lorries are likely to be doing burnouts on Ilford High Road in Lamborghini. 

[jim89]

Just now, sierraman said:

I don’t think people arriving in boats or under lorries are likely to be doing burnouts on Ilford High Road in Lamborghini. 

Er

Antithesis - noun · the exact opposite

[Pieman]

From boat people to luxury yacht people?

[sierraman]

Just re read that. I was trying to type and eat at same time. Either way you can’t just wave money around and do what you want. 

[Talbot]

12 minutes ago, sierraman said:

Just re read that. I was trying to type and eat at same time. Either way you can’t just wave money around and do what you want. 

Historical evidence suggests that in most cases, actually you can.

You shouldn't be able to, but what should be the case and what actually happens are two different things.

[Metal Guru]

I saw some of these twats about 10 years ago one evening somewhere near Hyde Park.

Revving up their supercars (mostly Lambos ), and driving about 5 yards forward. Everyone was just laughing at them but they thought they were so cool.

[sierraman]

5 minutes ago, Talbot said:

Historical evidence suggests that in most cases, actually you can.

You shouldn't be able to, but what should be the case and what actually happens are two different things.

Annoyingly you are right. Still, shouldn’t be the case. 

[2flags]

You can if you are registered as a diplomat, and you have diplomatic immunity. There have been lots of cases of very serious crimes that the perpetrators have claimed immunity and have had to be let go. I'm sure that it isn't too far a stretch to get sunny boy put down as an 'adviser' so as to escape the law. 

 

[DSdriver]

Presumably once they have paid their fines and proved that they now have the correct insurance they will be able to collect their cars from the pound.

[comfortablynumb]

Or you claim to be a diplomat and having killed an innocent lad on his motorbike, you hightail it back to your own country and refuse to accept what you've done 🤬

[Dobloseven]

Went to Dubai a few years back, expecting to see lots of supercars.Quite disappointed.Remember the advertising strapline"The car in front is a Toyota"?There the car in front almost certainly would actually be a Toyota.Bloody things were everywhere.Taxis, people carrier things, Landcruisers etc.A lot seemed to be used for taking folk out into the desert.Got two daughters over there.Ones got a Kia Stoma or somesuch,the other a Pajero/Shogun.

[Pieman]

4 hours ago, 2flags said:

You can if you are registered as a diplomat, and you have diplomatic immunity. 

And therefore should be made to drive one of these.

[camryv6]

I saw the gold car driving around last week on Kuwait plates

i think it is a Mitsubishi Colt Sigma

[sheffcortinacentre]

Won't bother them in slightest probably got several more, the laws anywhere don't apply to these people.

[Richard_FM]

I spot the odd car in Manchester registered in one of the Gulf nations.  They aren't always that fancy, one being a Mini with "translated" Qatari plates, so I assumed it was from Guernsey at first.

[Urko]

12 hours ago, sierraman said:

Just re read that. I was trying to type and eat at same time. Either way you can’t just wave money around and do what you want. 

No one appears to have told Elon Musk that, among others.

[Essex V6]

7 hours ago, camryv6 said:

I saw the gold car driving around last week on Kuwait plates

i think it is a Mitsubishi Colt Sigma

Must admit I thought it was a  Datsun - Skyline maybe?

[warren t claim]

There's going to be several export sales reps at BAE Systems with squeaky arses tomorrow.

[Spottedlaurel]

7 hours ago, Essex V6 said:

Must admit I thought it was a  Datsun - Skyline maybe?

Yup, 4-door variant of the C210 version sold here as 240K GT in the late '70s/early '80s (had a total of five of them). Sad to see there. They seem to be particularly popular with Kuwaitis.

[camryv6]

8 hours ago, Spottedlaurel said:

Yup, 4-door variant of the C210 version sold here as 240K GT in the late '70s/early '80s (had a total of five of them). Sad to see there. They seem to be particularly popular with Kuwaitis.

You are right, but with a user name like that you should be