Remember the white Focus video?
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Les Hinks 'found' the footage.
Edinburgh Evening news has picked it up.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Graduate39s...
From the article:
A YOUNG DJ claimed today he was horrified after a video he produced of a car racing through the streets of Edinburgh sparked a police probe.
• Les Hinks' film showed the car speeding through the city centre
Les Hinks said he found footage of a car tearing through city streets online and tested out his editing skills to enhance the film.
The Edinburgh Napier graduate then posted the video on YouTube, where it received thousands of views.
However, he said he was appalled when the video was picked up and condemned on motoring websites - and insists he was not the driver.
The 22-year-old, who said he did not know the identity of the motorist who shot the footage, said: "It's absolutely baffling what has happened. I didn't think for a second that the police would get involved.
"I have no idea who the driver was and how long ago it was filmed.
"When I found it my TV brain kicked in and I just wanted to see what I could do with it, to make an exciting film. It's a popular kind of film online, where a car is driven around a city with a camera low to the ground, often speeded up.
"I posted it on Sunday but got home after work and realised it might have been a bad idea, so I took it down. I just can't believe that posting something online would lead to this."
Mr Hinks, who works as a barman and DJ, said he did not know where the video originated but would help police.
The footage features a car speeding the two miles from Blackhall to Edinburgh Castle in just minutes around dawn, careering on to the wrong side of the road several times.
It runs red lights outside Stewart's Melville College, drives the wrong way around the traffic island in Ainslie Place in the New Town and performs a dangerous handbrake turn in Johnston Terrace.
In the YouTube clip, Mr Hinks cut the film together with a £27,000 2.5-litre Ford Focus RS, however he claimed he did not know the actual make of the car in the film.
Mr Hinks, a former Stewart's Melville College pupil, said he speeded up the footage and enhanced the lighting.
On the RS Owners' Club website, one member said: "Great vid, don't want to ruin the mood by pointing out the number of driving offences in it though."
One user on PistonHeads.com said they had reported Mr Hinks to police.
Mr Hinks said: "A couple of my pals died in a car accident and I think that kind of driving is just madness."
Police said they were continuing to investigate the footage.
Edinburgh Evening news has picked it up.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Graduate39s...
From the article:
A YOUNG DJ claimed today he was horrified after a video he produced of a car racing through the streets of Edinburgh sparked a police probe.
• Les Hinks' film showed the car speeding through the city centre
Les Hinks said he found footage of a car tearing through city streets online and tested out his editing skills to enhance the film.
The Edinburgh Napier graduate then posted the video on YouTube, where it received thousands of views.
However, he said he was appalled when the video was picked up and condemned on motoring websites - and insists he was not the driver.
The 22-year-old, who said he did not know the identity of the motorist who shot the footage, said: "It's absolutely baffling what has happened. I didn't think for a second that the police would get involved.
"I have no idea who the driver was and how long ago it was filmed.
"When I found it my TV brain kicked in and I just wanted to see what I could do with it, to make an exciting film. It's a popular kind of film online, where a car is driven around a city with a camera low to the ground, often speeded up.
"I posted it on Sunday but got home after work and realised it might have been a bad idea, so I took it down. I just can't believe that posting something online would lead to this."
Mr Hinks, who works as a barman and DJ, said he did not know where the video originated but would help police.
The footage features a car speeding the two miles from Blackhall to Edinburgh Castle in just minutes around dawn, careering on to the wrong side of the road several times.
It runs red lights outside Stewart's Melville College, drives the wrong way around the traffic island in Ainslie Place in the New Town and performs a dangerous handbrake turn in Johnston Terrace.
In the YouTube clip, Mr Hinks cut the film together with a £27,000 2.5-litre Ford Focus RS, however he claimed he did not know the actual make of the car in the film.
Mr Hinks, a former Stewart's Melville College pupil, said he speeded up the footage and enhanced the lighting.
On the RS Owners' Club website, one member said: "Great vid, don't want to ruin the mood by pointing out the number of driving offences in it though."
One user on PistonHeads.com said they had reported Mr Hinks to police.
Mr Hinks said: "A couple of my pals died in a car accident and I think that kind of driving is just madness."
Police said they were continuing to investigate the footage.
I'm not sure i'm buying his story, he was claiming copyright infringement to another person (may be a pher) that re-hosted his video after he took it down. Yet he claims not to know where the original video came from.
The article makes mention that he used a real ford focus and spliced it with the video he 'found' Is it his car? Its just a bit convenient there's another camera angle of the same white focus mounted on the door as he heads up to george street..
'In the YouTube clip, Mr Hinks cut the film together with a £27,000 2.5-litre Ford Focus RS, however he claimed he did not know the actual make of the car in the film.'
Okay. He drove to George street, mounted a camera on the side of a White Ford Focus RS, then edited it in the rest of his footage? Aye alright then!
The article makes mention that he used a real ford focus and spliced it with the video he 'found' Is it his car? Its just a bit convenient there's another camera angle of the same white focus mounted on the door as he heads up to george street..
'In the YouTube clip, Mr Hinks cut the film together with a £27,000 2.5-litre Ford Focus RS, however he claimed he did not know the actual make of the car in the film.'
Okay. He drove to George street, mounted a camera on the side of a White Ford Focus RS, then edited it in the rest of his footage? Aye alright then!
Edinburgh Evening News said:
One user on PistonHeads.com said they had reported Mr Hinks to police.
Now Graham's not called "Famous" without good reason 
The smell of BS in that "excuse" from Mr Hinks is overpowering. What a pile of s
te, hopefully the police are able to do something about this idiot.Mr Trophy said:
How do you all know he's not telling the truth?
Know one can know anything for certain but, I believe there is the following evidence:He admits that he edited and posted the video
His Mother's house is in the video
His Brother owns a white Focus RS
I smell something and it isn't Daz white.
Wait a minute. (Ignoring that either he or his brother owns the RS.) Was the video on YouTube not called something along the lines of 'Focus RS driving through Edinburgh'? Yet he claims to not know the make of the car that was in the clip. Although the clip has been reposted By other people to keep it alive, so maybe that's not what he called it originally. So many holes in his story!
There was a short snippet of this story in 'Metro' this morning, too...
'I have no idea who the driver was, or how long ago it was filmed... A couple of my pals died in a car accident and I think that kind of driving is madness',lied claimed [name withheld].
'I have no idea who the driver was, or how long ago it was filmed... A couple of my pals died in a car accident and I think that kind of driving is madness',
Edited by FamilyDub on Thursday 5th May 16:41
Mr Trophy said:
How do you all know he's not telling the truth?
How do you know he is?Personally, I don't know what the truth of the matter is - I'll let the police and the courts work that out - but I belive that the principle of Occam's Razor can be applied in this instance, namely "simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones".
Rockatansky said:
How do you know he is?
Personally, I don't know what the truth of the matter is - I'll let the police and the courts work that out - but I belive that the principle of Occam's Razor can be applied in this instance, namely "simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones".
It's all about who you know. Not what you think. Personally, I don't know what the truth of the matter is - I'll let the police and the courts work that out - but I belive that the principle of Occam's Razor can be applied in this instance, namely "simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones".
Edited by Mr Trophy on Wednesday 4th May 12:14
Scuba_steve said:
Les Hinks 'found' the footage.
Edinburgh Evening news has picked it up.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Graduate39s...
But as fabric said on the other thread..Edinburgh Evening news has picked it up.
http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/Graduate39s...
the article said:
however he claimed he did not know the actual make of the car in the film.
"Go to 1.56, where the camera's mounted on the wing, you can see what are pretty clearly the vents of a Focus RS."
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