Maserati fined for noise in London today!!

[Mr Snrub]

Wills2 said:

Saleen836 said:

Currently have this problem on the narrow road outside my house, it's a 30 limit and a local moron insists on speeding up and down with his exhaust popping and banging on his Focus RS, numerous calls to 101 have been made by numerous residents for a couple of months now and still nothing has been done.

We have a couple of cars that like to do the same in our village every night, it's not big or clever.

There's a bike that keeps hammering it down the 30 road near me about 11:30 every single night. Where's a stinger when you need one?

[anonymous-user]

Look at the bloody state of the Met officers, disgraceful. I guess it's a little bit of jealousy. Very harsh IMO.

[egor110]

yonex said:

Look at the bloody state of the Met officers, disgraceful. I guess it's a little bit of jealousy. Very harsh IMO.

We don't know the full story though, has he had warnings before and patience has finally run out?

[Blakewater]

egor110 said:

The fine is up to £1000 , do you think the people causing a nuisance give a fk about £1000?

It's pocket change for them .

If you got a fine of a grand , if you then had a wad of notes on you would you be able to just pay the police straight away?

Someone hammers past my office window every day in the "Socialist Clarion Van" which is actually a knackered air cooled VW camper van. If that, or any other noisy old banger, clattered down this road making more noise than the Maserati, would that get pulled over? Would the driver deserve a high fine he wouldn't be able to afford?

The punishment should be fair and as a direct result of willful antisocial behaviour, not spitefulness against people for having expensive cars.

[Mr Snrub]

Blakewater said:

egor110 said:

The fine is up to £1000 , do you think the people causing a nuisance give a fk about £1000?

It's pocket change for them .

If you got a fine of a grand , if you then had a wad of notes on you would you be able to just pay the police straight away?

Someone hammers past my office window every day in the "Socialist Clarion Van" which is actually a knackered air cooled VW camper van. If that, or any other noisy old banger, clattered down this road making more noise than the Maserati, would that get pulled over? Would the driver deserve a high fine he wouldn't be able to afford?

The punishment should be fair and as a direct result of willful antisocial behaviour, not spitefulness against people for having expensive cars.

That's why fines should be linked to income. £1000 would be crippling for someone on minimum wage, yet for someone like a footballer they wouldn't bother to pick it up if they saw that amount lying on the street. Doesn't seem very just to me.

[HarryW]

PZR said:

'V12 1RAK' is well known in the area (I've seen him many times, driving like a complete idiot) and is simply reaping what he has sown.

I suspect this is the answer, if he has had complaints in the past his reg was probably on the watch list for the beat, hence the apparent over reaction everyone is up in arms about.

Can't believe the size of the heffers though, there is no way they could be fit.

[Downward]

Was the number plate illegal ?
If so maybe he was pulled and asked to change it but couldn't be arsed.

[smithyithy]

Plenty of videos of the '1RAK' car(s) sitting in traffic revving like idiots.

[MDMA .]

smithyithy said:

Plenty of videos of the '1RAK' car(s) sitting in traffic revving like idiots.

I blame Bush and Blair for " liberating " them !

[Jimmy Recard]

Mr GrimNasty said:

Clearly louder than it left the factory - so it's illegal.

tts with loud exhausts and stereos deserve every fine they get. End of.

I agree. I was trying to reply to someone posting who suggested the issue was one of type approval.

[dxg]

The people I feel sorry for are the second owners of these cars. The number of videos I've seen* where these things are started up from stone cold - we're taking water dripping out the exhaust cold - and repeatedly revved to the limiter is astonishing. The concept of mechanical sympathy just doesn't exist. I suppose that, when these toys break, their owners just go out and get the newer version.

• Er, not because I've watched them or anything. They're just a specialist video I may have stumbled across...

[k-ink]

I love cars but revving them in central London at night is a piss take for those trying to sleep. It has been going on for years. Why has it taken so long for anything to be done about it?

I am sure a few feathers will be ruffled, just to get the message out there.

[k-ink]

Ps

Just as I wrote that some noise kicks off. I'm out in the sticks and someone has started using a petrol powered garden tool. LOUD as hell! Why isn't there a law to make those silent and electric?!

[ashleyman]

k-ink said:

Ps

Just as I wrote that some noise kicks off. I'm out in the sticks and someone has started using a petrol powered garden tool. LOUD as hell! Why isn't there a law to make those silent and electric?!

Because the electric ones have no cutting power!! We bought an electric mower and it was rubbish. Just wouldn't cut away the thick stuff. It wasn't cheap either.

[s3fella]

As it drives off at the end it sounds like a manual? No indicator also!! lol

[Mandalore]

egor110 said:

What none of us know is if he's got history of hooning around and has a marker on his car.

I guess if he did and explained that the car downshifts itself and if they follow him it will do the same thing every time he slows down they might be more sympathetic however if he's known as being a arrogant tosser then there going to play it by the book aren't they.

Its exactly this!!
Someone else has mentioned it before already (Quote Below) on this thread and a guy from our Knightsbridge based team also said that he's seen the driver being a tool a few times before.

People like him who drive like a tool and gives anyone with a decent car a bad name as result, need a wake up call.

PZR said:

'V12 1RAK' is well known in the area (I've seen him many times, driving like a complete idiot) and is simply reaping what he has sown.

Edited by Mandalore on Monday 11th July 09:49

[Mandalore]

Pooh said:

Mr2Mike said:

Pooh said:

I notice that you completely ignore the part of the post before that that I was actually referring to.

Then you should make some effort to write clear responses. You said his post was all bks apart from the bit about residents deserving to live in peace, I'm saying it's not. The police response did appear to be overly heavy handed (though we don't know the full story) but the Maser drivers actions confirm he's a bellend.

I thought it was obvious given that numerous people had pointed out that he had not revved his engine but I should have been clearer.

Its soo hard to spot people with an obvious beef with the Police for 'randomly' picking them out of the herd in the past.

[AMGJocky]

I'm less inclined to care or offer any sympathy to the driver seeing as he filmed the police chatting to him the whole way through.

Tosser.

[k-ink]

AMGJocky said:

I'm less inclined to care or offer any sympathy to the driver seeing as he filmed the police chatting to him the whole way through.

Tosser.

But he has to let his legion of sad followers know about his every struggle in life. Every waking moment must be captured and shared. A day without a selfie is not worth living. Hell, an hour without looking at yourself is unthinkable. You are the centre of the universe and nothing else matters.

Thank the social media generation. If you follow them, you are causing this behaviour.

[egor110]

AMGJocky said:

I'm less inclined to care or offer any sympathy to the driver seeing as he filmed the police chatting to him the whole way through.

Tosser.

The police aren't going to care there being filmed.

They have a job to do they did it by the book and the video will just back this up so let old matey video and just get on with the job.