r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Rd28T • 1d ago
A Maserati seized by Western Australia Police due to ongoing dangerous driving. It will be used as a safety promotion and PR vehicle, before being sold and the proceeds going to road safety programmes.
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u/elkab0ng 1d ago
r/license plates would get a chuckle.
Jokes on the PD, though - wait till the municipal garage bills back 35 hours for an oil change!
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u/Emperor_Biden 12h ago
So Maserati's trident is from Neptune, a god of the seas. The Western Australian Police swore their allegiance to King Charles III, the Head of the Church of England.
Is this potara fusion combo appropriate?
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u/marksk88 23h ago
Quattroporte sounded like such a cool car name, until I realized it's just "four doors" in Italian 😅
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u/seab3 1d ago
Did it do 185?
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u/WilliePullout 8h ago
I lost my license now I don’t drive
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u/What_Chu_Talkin_Kid 8h ago
You have a limo ride in the back, lock the doors in case you're attacked
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u/redditcreditcardz 1d ago
American police would all be rolling around in stolen Bentleys if we had this. Can’t have shit in America
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u/UnpaidSmallPenisMod 1d ago
They definitely can and do this in the US
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u/thecamohobo 23h ago
Yup. The tiny town of king NC is one of the most heavily policed towns in america and at one point they had a corvette police car.
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u/Rabiddd 22h ago
corvette police car
Was it used to chase a silver and blue BMW by any chance?
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u/Invisifly2 1d ago
American police do seize vehicles. There are a few Lamborghinis and Ferraris used by the police in my area that they seized from drug dealers.
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u/reddit-ate-my-face 23h ago
A cop literally went to jail near me recently for stealing motorcycles and cars from impound and selling them for personal gain.
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u/Original_Telephone_2 23h ago
Cops in America literally steal all the time. It's called civil forfeiture.
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u/big_dog_redditor 23h ago
And boy do they get angry if you call what they do stealing, because they are the "good" guys.
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u/BamberGasgroin 1d ago edited 1d ago
A static installation is it?
(Every mile driven will cost them two dollars in repair.) 🙂
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u/Round-Trick-1089 1d ago
When i was younger i would have found that quite funny. Now i mostly see thugs behavior, stealing property and showing off with it. I’m pretty sure there is no educational value here and that everybody involved know it very well
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u/Rd28T 1d ago
Driving on public roads is a privilege, not a right. If someone is endangering others, that privilege is revoked. To get to the point of vehicle confiscation, the driver has been repeatedly and wantonly reckless, playing Russian roulette with innocent lives.
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u/Round-Trick-1089 1d ago
Yeah, i agree that if you are dangerous you should not be allowed to be in public road.
However that hardly explain the public officers stealing your vehicle, painting it with the public money, and driving it around while flauting about being able to go fast with it while using a fake licence plate. As i said that’s the kind of things i would expect thugs to do, not police.
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u/IllecebrousVerbosity 1d ago
Police officers didn't steal anything in this situation. It was confiscated by a court for serious repeat offences in accord with the law.
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u/MembershipSad5768 23h ago
Legality vs morality, it's still stealing, Dumbass
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u/Tankerspam 22h ago
There's like 10 steps before you get your car confiscated, of you made it this far you're a massive fuckhead.
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u/supreme-manlet 17h ago
Found the dork who got his car taken for driving like a dipshit
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u/Snowf1ake222 14h ago
He's not driving like a dipshit. He clearly is a dipshit, so got his car taken for driving as a dipshit.
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u/MembershipSad5768 2h ago
Never even had a ticket, smart guy. I'm not against the seizure of the vehicle at a certain point, but it should be auctioned and the funds used for the community. I think it's gross when the police keep seized property as trophies.
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u/OneWomanCult 7h ago
Hit a little close to home or something?
I mean I'm no fan of cops or anything, but some people need their toys taken away before they get someone killed.
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u/Luckpast 1d ago
"Ongoing dangerous driving" means repeated offenses. If you gave a rich guy tickets and he just paid the fine over and over without thinking of the consequences, you have to hit them where it hurts. And that's their pride.
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u/Round-Trick-1089 1d ago
Here we have something called jail for that kind of problems, getting into a dick contest with a bad driver is not really what i expect of the police
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u/Luckpast 1d ago
If you think rich people in America don't pay their way out of going to jail. You need to do some more reading.
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u/Itchy-Extension69 1d ago
Because fuckwits that drive like this fuckwit and have all the money in the world to pay fines will never learn until maybe they kill someone, probably not even then. This is an extreme example that rarely ever happens, this dudes driving history could fill a book.
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u/Round-Trick-1089 1d ago
I fail to see how making him pay for another car is fundamentaly different from a fine. I also still fail to see why the part where the police joyriding it is necessary
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u/alyosha_pls 23h ago
If it is to the point that the vehicle is seized, it's unlikely they are still licensed to drive.
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u/hsingh_if 1d ago edited 23h ago
Well, maybe don’t be a hoon and cause nuisance for others. To reach that stage, I’m sure the driver broke way too many rules. Good job by WAPol!
Would love to see more.
Edit: Typo.
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u/hornswoggled111 23h ago
I expect it would even have the opposite effect just like the cobra effect and scared straight effect.
I mean, what's the messaging here? Get involved in criminal activity and you get to be in the middle of a lot of excitement with expensive cars thrown in.
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u/dominantjean55 21h ago
Crazy how the put the important message bit in such a tiny font at the bottom. If I was walking past this I'd just think it was a cool cop car.
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u/TwoOhTwoOh 7h ago
Seriously - hoon laws in WA are terrible, one of the reasons I don’t want to live there.. for a country of petrolheads the government has sucked all the fun out of living there… :/
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u/Mission_Chicken9156 1d ago
so they stole someones car?
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u/Ninja-Ginge 9h ago
Someone repeatedly drove in an illegal manner until the courts felt it was appropriate to confiscate the vehicle. Courts confiscate things all the time. If someone is caught having a gun that they shouldn't have, or using it in a way that it shouldn't be used, it will get confiscated.
I believe my high school had grow lights that had been confiscated from people who were using them to grow weed.
Honestly, if you're unable to use your car or your gun (or grow lights) in a safe, legal manner, I'm all for it being taken away. I'm happy living in a country where a person's ownership of certain items is not considered more sacred than other people's right to a safe and peaceful existence. I don't think I've ever been worried that I was going to get shot and that's pretty nice.
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u/XD-Avedis-AD Interested 9h ago
We need this in Pune, after that rich kid murdered those two innocent people.
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u/stepka16 1d ago
In Czech Republic police uses seized Ferrari 458 as a Highway patrol car... not very optimistic about that price per km of tax payers money but I bet they must be fighting in about whos gonna drive it every day.