Legality for posting video of speeding?

"Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion" (herrquattro)
04/22/2017 at 12:31 • Filed to: None

Can the police come after someone if they post a video of themselves speeding on IG?

After seeing Afroduck get tracked down, they are nervous of getting caught down, even though to information in the video is so much less then Afroducks.

The other day, someone hit 115 MPH on a completely empty stretch of highway at night, and they took a video of the gauge cluster. Now, yes that person knows what they did was stupid and blah blah blah. Please don’t lecture them on how dumb they were being, they already know what was on the line. And they knew the risks/rewards, and they said fuck it.

There is no time stamp, and the road/outside features are not visible. The only ‘evidence’ visible is the speed, time, and temperature and that is it.

The driver doesn’t talk during the video, and road, or any other part of the car. There is no ‘unique’ features shown, and so as far as any judge is concerned that driver wasn’t driving, and this is not their car. Not to mention all gauges are in metric...

However, in other pictures on this persons IG, the license plate is visible, so it would be relatively easy to track down the owner/driver.

The person knows either way what they are doing is stupid, and that its just as stupid to brag about it online. But damnit, that person want to just rub it in their friends face that they have the balls to do 115...

Asking for a friend...

DISCUSSION (24)

Dusty Ventures > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 12:41

Your friend seems kind of petty, and makes questionable decisions IMO.

Dusty Ventures > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 12:47

Also, I feel like this has a high risk of escalating until it ends badly. Your friend brags about 115, so his friend decides to one up him and do 120. Someone else does 125... and so on until something goes wrong.

RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars > Dusty Ventures
04/22/2017 at 12:51

I agree on both counts.

boxrocket > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 12:53

I’m no legal expert, but I would guess that there has to be visible proof of when and where such [alleged] illegalities occurred. In Afroduck’s case, location and time were extremely obvious, and could be corroborated with other cameras on his route (speed/traffic, security, ATMs, other citizens, etc.). In the instance you mention of just the gauge cluster video, the (foolish) poster could claim they were on a dyno, or race track, or legally closed course. However, if I were authorities in the poster’s area and knowing other things they’ve posted, I might keep an eye out for their vehicles and behaviors and share the info with others in the same locale. Not so much to target them, per se, but to be aware that such things are happening in my jurisdiction, and that it risks the safety and lives of fellow citizens, including those who are making and posting said videos. In the event I did encounter the individual making said videos. I would kindly encourage them to keep any illegal antics off the street and go to a race course, or contact the local government to seek permission to close a section of empty road for a sanctioned event where emergency crews were on location in the event of a mishap.

yamahog > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 12:54

ok at the risk of being an old and telling you to get off my lawn....how is posting to a (public??) IG a better idea than simply taking your friends on the ride or just sending the video via snap/IG story to the SPECIFIC PEOPLE who would hopefully not snitch

just delete it if you’re so worried

Svend > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 12:55

If the authorities believe they have enough evidence they can prosecute. The video would be evidence but they’d need to find out what car, when and who was driving. If they know what to look for and a location it would be easy to fill in the rest of the gaps should they wish to.

Also, tell your friend to grow the f*** up. Just because it’s possible to do it and no one was hurt this time doesn’t make it legal or that they won’t get hurt or hurt someone next time.

Doing 115mph in any place not solely made for the purpose of is irresponsible at best, at worst fatal.

WilliamsSW > RallyDarkstrike - Fan of 2-cyl FIATs, Eastern Bloc & Kei cars
04/22/2017 at 12:57

Second.

Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz) > yamahog
04/22/2017 at 12:59

Because mad internet love and attention, yo!

yamahog > Galileo Humpkins (aka MC Clap Yo Handz)
04/22/2017 at 13:00

DANG YOUTHS!!

K-Roll-PorscheTamer > yamahog
04/22/2017 at 13:03

I HATE CLOUDS!!

Chuckles > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 13:03

It doesn’t take balls to do 115 on a highway, it just takes a lack of brains.

interstate366, now In The Industry > yamahog
04/22/2017 at 13:06

old lady yells at cloud.jpg

OPPOsaurus WRX > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 13:06

Only one way to figure it out. Let us know how it goes.

Dusty Ventures > yamahog
04/22/2017 at 13:10

I’m going to be even older and plant my flag firmly on Mt Never-On-Open-Roads.

Also, 115? C’mon, son. I’ve done that on dirt in a lifted Ranger.

Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion > Dusty Ventures
04/22/2017 at 13:16

No, I’m pretty sure my friend has won the ‘speed war’. None of his friends care enough, and hes just the idiot who was like fuck it.

Plus, they realized they were making a questionable decision, so they choose to do it without anyone else in the car or around them, so that way if they fucked up and it went to shit, the only one who gets hurt is themselves.

Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion > boxrocket
04/22/2017 at 13:19

Well, from my understanding the point of filming it was so that it could be a one time thing, and they wouldn’t have to do it again to ‘prove’ themselves...

And, I’ve seen the video, and literally the only thing visible is the gauge cluster, the highway stretch in question does not have any speed cameras set up, and besides, this is the only remotely illegal thing this person has ever posted.

Besides mild trespassing to get photos of their car, but that’s a different matter...

Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion > yamahog
04/22/2017 at 13:22

No, if Im going to make a questionable and stupid decision (like allegedly doing 115), nobody else would be in the car with me. I’m a jackass, but I would never make that decision for them...

Dusty Ventures > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 13:23

I agree with the idiot part.

And if he really wanted to guarantee the only one who would get hurt was himself he wouldn’t have chosen an open road for his speed run

Kinja'd!!!

Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion > Dusty Ventures
04/22/2017 at 13:28

It was in the middle of nowhere- Ok I know what my *friend* did was stupid, and now that *he* has the video evidence, he doesn’t have to do it again...

Plus, he can’t afford to do track days. Or tickets. If he had gotten caught, he would’ve been so royally fucked... It would be better to have wrecked and died, then to have been caught...

Plus he was curious.

Though, point made, next time I think Ill force him to take it to the track...

Dusty Ventures > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 13:35

None of those are valid or acceptable reasons. Hopefully you’re right about your friend not doing it again and he keeps it to the track from now on.

My X-type is too a real Jaguar > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 13:53

Umm all videos and photos shot by a Cellphone are geotagged and dated, you just don’t see them on screen.

Xyl0c41n3 > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 14:06

Seems like your friend is still thinking incredibly selfishly if you think... I mean, if HE thinks that death is preferable to a couple of nights in jail, a few hundred dollars in fines and angry parents/loved ones.

Trust me, your parents, I mean HIS parents, would much rather have a son they are extremely pissed at than a son they have to bury.

Also, funerals are fucking expensive. They cost over $10,000 for a halfway decent one. I doubt you’ve got, I mean HE’S got a life insurance plan to cover the cost of one. Do your parents, I mean, HIS parents, have $10,000 to cover the cost of one?

But it might not even be a funeral. Cars are pretty good nowadays. Even a 115 mph crash isn’t guaranteed to kill you, I mean, your friend. You could, I mean, HE could end up in the hospital seriously injured. It’s at least $500 for the ambulance ride, $2,000 just to put a lifeflight helicopter on standby (more if it actually has to come and transport you), and at LEAST $10,000 per day during the hospital stay. Does your family, I mean, your friend’s family have that kind of money?

And NONE of that is taking into consideration the amount of grief you’d (I mean your friend would) be putting loved ones through because of your death or maiming/severe injury.

It’s beyond selfish to think death is the preferable outcome to handcuffs.

smobgirl > Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion
04/22/2017 at 15:00

Some guy did that in a Maserati here (Facebook live) and they found him dead in a ditch the next morning.

Herr Quattro - Has a 4-motion > Xyl0c41n3
04/25/2017 at 00:05

115MPH qualifies as reckless driving, speeding, endangering the public, and a host of other things. My friend couldve easily wound up in jail for over 15 years... Wow, hindsight is 20/20.

And there is no way in hell he could’ve survived a 115MPH accident.. At all.