Good Luck, and Slow Down, Best Cop Moments - Part 4
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Channel: superspeedersRob
Views: 2,788,790
Rating: 4.6200318 out of 5
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Length: 13min 38sec (818 seconds)
Published: Mon Jul 08 2013
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Hi everyone, Matt Farah here. Thanks for your comments, allow me to provide a little background information, at least pertaining to my Bullrun 2010 Stop (where I freak out about Jersey)
This stop was 5 miles into a 3,000 mile rally. We had literally just started a few minutes before, and I was the first person to be pulled over and ticketed. Driving away from a MAJOR stop like that, and thinking about the fact that I now still have 7 full days and 2,995 more miles to go is incredibly frustrating. As you can see in the video, I was pretty respectful towards the cop and only vented my frustrations after. I think it's important to be respectful towards the police in situations like that, and I think that's what kept me out of jail that day. If I was that cop, I absolutely would have arrested me. Nevertheless, even though I did everything the cop said I did, and I "don't have the right to complain because I broke the law and got caught," it's still an incredibly frustrating situation.
Remember, most people pay like $20,000 to do Bullrun. I can't afford that kind of trip, and even if I could, I wouldn't, because it's stupid. I was on Bullrun to make videos for Black Magic, and I was given free entry and a meager salary for my services. Now, free entry into Bullrun is nice, but it doesn't pay the bills. And this one traffic stop, in the first hour of the first day, was enough to wipe out my entire salary for the whole trip and then some. So, while my frustrations manifested themselves in ranting about Jersey and cops, the truth was I was just upset because I now had to work a whole week for free, and then pay out of pocket, because of this incident. And before you say "you could just not have broken the law," it really doesn't work like that. We make films about cars. Every time we film, we break the law one way or the other. On Bullrun, if you don't break the law, you don't get shots of other cars or anything that people want to see, and your job is moot.
I paid my dues in court for this incident, which is why I have no problem with the video now. It cost me thousands of dollars (that I honestly didn't have at the time) and I'm still paying for it in insurance premiums today. Those who listen to my podcast know that two of my advertisers are ticket lawyers. They don't pay me to advertise, they only exchange services. That's how badly doing a rally will fuck up your license.
This video is 3 years old. Those of you who read my writing, watch my videos, and listen to my podcasts know that a lot of things have changed in those 3 years, and while I had fun on rallies at the time, after seeing a rally crash in person and reading about several more, I've realized that rallies really aren't the way to go to have fun in a car. It's just too risky, and that's why I don't do it anymore.
Anyway, I don't need to make everyone happy. I'm ok with that. I am "myself" for a living, and enough people like my work that I can go to sleep happy every day. I've never crashed a car (except once on a track in the rain), I've never filed an insurance claim for an accident, and I've never caused anyone else to get into an accident. I've done some crazy shit, and yes, I grew up in a relatively privileged household, though not one where I'd consider myself spoiled. In fact, considering how much money my parents have, I'm the most normal "rich kid" I know. You don't see my Aston Martin on film because I don't need to brag about it, and when I reference other cars I've owned, it's for a point of perspective and expertise, not a point of bragging.
Anyway, thanks for watching, and drive safe. MF
I'm kind of confused as to what the super speeders are/do. Could someone explain it to me? From what I understand they just make videos about speeding. How do they still have licenses? How is it legal for them to keep doing that?
why does matt farah get all upset when he gets tickets? clocked at
165mph (!)100 in a 65, gets three tickets for ~$1000, but he's all "fuck jersey police" after he gets nabbed? everyone else i see either laughs it off or just quietly takes the ticket, but it seems like every video i see of farah he's whining about something.Matt Farrah can do no wrong in my eyes. Everyone get's mad when they get tickets.
There are many many other video's where he just takes the ticket, jokes with the cop, laughs it off and leaves with a smile.
his license lol.
While standing up in a car going 100 MPH is incredibly stupid, I too would be very angry watching 2 GTRs get away driving arguably much more recklessly, it looked like he was just trying to keep up.
Watch super gt or if you're game for no subs, watch the video option series.
About a year ago a bunch of cars got pulled over near my house in VA. Same thing. A big group of sports cars speeding and passing illegallly.
They confiscated all of their cameras and spent a long time analyzing the video and issuing tickets based on the video of the violations that they had done (I'm 75% sure this is the case, but need to research it further).
They would not have gotten in trouble if they had kept less than 10% over the speed limit and not been so dangerous.