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Pride comes before a visit from the police.
An example of this socially-networked maxim comes from Japan, where a man decided to drive his car toward its maximum.
His car happened to be a Lamborghini Gallardo, which tends to go like dung off a shovel -- a phrase I've never understood, as I've never seen dung fly quickly off a shovel.
This man, whose name has been withheld -- perhaps to protect him from admirers -- took his Gallardo out for a spin and spun it along at around 156 kilometers an hour. This is a mere 97 miles an hour. Did the Gallardo even get out of third gear?
The problem, sadly, was that the man knew that the speed limit in the tunnel in which he was driving was a mere 60 kilometers an hour.
Actually, the real problem was that he filmed himself speeding and then posted the video to YouTube.
As Bloomberg News reports it, the 38-year-old man's video, posted in March, caught the attention of misanthropes and ne'er-do-wells.
One or more of them were so appalled at his sheer irresponsibility, his mindless selfishness and, perhaps, his camera skills, that he was reported to the Hiroshima Prefecture Police.
Naturally, the 38-year-old man was arrested this week.<... [Read more]
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