- How far would you go to avoid a traffic ticket?
- Let's talk about that.
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Good mythical morning!
- If you've had a driver's license for any amount of time,
then you have most likely felt that
dreadful, sinking feeling of whoop whoop
looking in your rear view mirror, seeing those blue lights
and knowing that an officer of the law is pulling you over.
Now, they walk up to the door, and the thing that you
say in those next few seconds, makes all the
difference in the world, to determine if
A: You're going to get out of a ticket, or
B: We're going to talk about you on this show.
- That's right, today we're gonna talk about some
of those people who had that person in blue
approach their car, and they did something a little
weird to get out of that traffic ticket.
It's time for...
- Policeman!
♫ You don't have to
♫ Put on your blue light,
♫ But if you do I'll come up
♫ With something crazy to get out of it.
Not everybody can be Sting.
- We should call Sting.
Have him fill in when we wanna do titles.
- With that voice man, I bet he's
gotten out of some tickets, but these people haven't.
Guess where we're going first, Rhett?
Florida.
- Florida.
- Of course, in 2014, Julius Lipowitz of
West Melbourne, Florida, realized that he was being
pulled over by the police, and he decided to
create a diversion.
- Smart, smart.
- Here's a picture of the guy.
- [Rhett] Smart.
- [Link] Spoiler alert, he was mugshotted
while wearing his Active Wear.
- Well yeah, you gotta stay active.
- Oh yeah, he got very active in the mental region,
as the cop was coming up, and he decided to call 911
in order to send the cops physically
in another direction, and I'm going to play
the 911 call for you now.
Note his specific angle.
- Okay.
- [911 Operator] 911, what is the address of your emergency?
- [Julius] I see there's a murder that's going to happen,
I swear on Wingate, on Wingate, on Wingate,
(stuttering heavily)
- Where?
- Wingate and Hollywood.
There's someone definitely going to get shot,
please, Wingate and Hollywood, please.
- [911 Operator] Okay sir, please take a --
- And then he hangs up.
- That's interesting, he's predicting the future.
Usually when you say a murder's
going to happen, you're the murderer.
- There's a murder that's going to happen, but it's not me.
He didn't add that part, he also didn't know
where the location was and he had to change it
in the middle of the thing.
- The killer was running apparently.
- He calls right back, they're like,
"Describe the person who's gonna be a murderer."
And he just keeps saying "Wingate and Hollywood.
"Just go there, whatever you do,
"don't come to where I am".
- Definitely going to be a murder.
- Unfortunately, the thing that Julius didn't take
into account is that is that there is
more than one officer in West Melbourne, Florida.
So the one that was with him, stayed with him and
then they sent a different officer
to Wingate and Hollywood.
- Right, where the murder was gonna happen.
- When the murder was gonna happen.
- Imminently.
- And then the dispatcher,
who was suspicious,
traced the call, and said
"Okay, now I know that this guy here, who's already
"being pulled over is doing this fake call."
So then, he tells that officer,
so instead of just getting a $200 traffic ticket,
he also found himself facing a felony charge with
up to five years in prison for this little
gonna be murderer rouse.
#WorthIt.
- Oh yeah, definitely.
In 2013, in New Hampshire, state trooper pulls over
Carly Williams, she's going almost
20 miles over the speed limit.
- Carly, slow down, Carly.
- Carly seems distraught, and then she tells the
officer that she is rushing to the hospital
to say goodbye to her father, who is about to die,
minutes away from dying.
- Oh, no.
- So troops like "Okay, of course,
"I wish you luck, go see your dad."
And then because he's a very concerned state trooper,
he calls the hospital to check on her father
to see if he's okay, and that's when he learns
the dad's not at the hospital at all,
because the dad died five years ago.
- Five years ago?
Maybe she, there's bad traffic,
she's just in traffic for five years,
getting to her dying father.
- The traffic is bad in New Hampshire,
but it is not that bad.
She was lying, Link.
- She was lying.
- She made it up.
Here's a picture of Carly,
so you can put a face with the name.
- Well, is she the blurred face?
Or is she the unblurred face?
- No, she's the unblurred face, her friend's face
is blurred because no one wants to be seen
with someone wearing strapless ruffle dress.
- Hehe, Carly. - Oooh!
- So, you're throwing the straffled ruffle dress?
- Straffled, nope. - Straffless?
- Under the bus with Carly?
- The state trooper ends up showing up at her house,
he prints out the father's obituary,
and just holds it up to her,
she tries to get out of it, - Damn.
- But eventually, she confesses,
and then she is given a ticket for
driving with a suspended registration,
apparently lying about your dead dad is
not a chargeable offense, so she didn't get in trouble.
- But it's just not good form though.
Maybe they should put that on the law books.
Sometimes it helps to have an accomplice
when trying to get out of a traffic ticket,
but sometimes it doesn't.
Case in point, last year in Savannah, Georgia,
an officer pulled over a car for speeding,
and then the dude driving the car had his girlfriend
in the passenger seat.
And he says to the officer, "Officer, my girlfriend,
"she's pregnant, she's 'bout to have a baby any second.
"I'm rushing to the hospital!"
Which is a pretty legit reason - That's a good one.
- But, there's a couple of problems here.
Problem number one, his girlfriend was clearly not
nine months pregnant. - Okay.
- Problem number two, he was headed in the opposite
direction from the hospital. - Maybe he knows a doula.
- No, no
- Okay, just trying to figure something out.
- Problem number three, he had clearly done something
to tick his girlfriend off, because she then spoke up
and said "I'm totally fine, my dirtbag boyfriend is lying".
- You gotta get cooperation. (Link imitating boyfriend)
- Me and my wife, we have a basketball in the
passenger seat, and she knows to go into breathing --
- She like puts it under there.
- You gotta have a cooperative woman
if you're gonna do this.
She's gotta put the basketball in place and
go into the breathing exercises.
- I think this is the reason why you gotta keep
all relationships off the rocks, for that moment
when you gotta feign the pregnancy.
The officer released the car into the girlfriend's control,
and the boyfriend was taken in for suspended license.
So, she drives off, presumably directly to the hospital
to have that baby, have that basketball baby.
- Not everybody who gets out of a ticket,
or tries to get out of a ticket is stupid,
because UC San Diego senior research scientist,
Dimitri Kryukov was pulled over and given a ticket
for failing to stop at a stop sign,
but instead of paying for a lawyer,
Dimitri decides to defend himself using physics.
- Ooh, Dimitri.
- He writes a four page paper, submits it to the court.
He titles it, The Proof of Innocence, now this is not
to be confused with Seduced by Innocence,
volume one in the Seduce saga,
in which Rose Wintersong meets Derrick,
the sexy martial arts instructor,
who teaches her more than self defense.
- Did you make that up?
- No, that's true, it's on Amazon,
I bought it when I looked it up.
(Link laughs)
- Derrick removing the black belt.
- So he used very detailed scientific explanation
to prove that the cops, quote, "Perception of reality
"did not properly reflect reality."
So he explains, essentially where the cop was,
he couldn't tell that he actually came to a pause,
it was very complicated, but lo and behold,
he submits it to the court and it actually works.
He also submitted it to the public online,
so everybody could see it.
- So, these are graphs?
Like, oh here's a blue peak, here's two blue peaks,
two green peaks, and two red peaks.
I immediately understand how the judge was swayed.
He's basically like "Ain't nobody got time for that."
And then just let him go.
- Exactly.
- Which is pretty smart, sometimes science,
however Rhett, is not on your side.
In summer 2012, in the Kemerovo region of Russia,
you're a fan of that region.
Mayor received a traffic tifficket, a traffic skertifficket
for a minor car accident, now I know based on Russian
dash cam footage that a minor accident can mean anything
from a fender bender to Mad Max: Fury Road.
But in this case, it was only for 32 bucks.
Fined for 32 bucks, but he refused to pay it
and instead he writes, not a four page,
but a 10 page explanation saying that he couldn't pay
his ticket because, according to his calculations
the world was going to end that year.
- In 2012, that's when the world ended.
- It takes 10 pages to explain that the world is gonna end,
and that the ticket is pointless.
Of course it also is a good argument
for just paying the ticket, because the world is gonna end,
but I'm just gonna spend my money
on bacon cheeseburgers and skydiving.
- Yeah, why waste your time getting out of a ticket,
if the worlds ending?
- Exactly, that did not work however,
and then he proceeded with plan B,
which was visiting the court every single day
with drawings and graphs trying to prove
that the world was going to end.
- Did this work?
- No, it didn't work.
And then he said, "Well if everyone forgives their debts,
"maybe the world won't end after all"
- Okay, that's a nice back pocket thing.
- And that was his argument, which because we're all
still here, thank you Mister Russian Traffic Violator.
- You saved the world! - He saved the world!
- Okay, from Russia to England, Dale Lyle 21 year old
from Bristol received a speeding in the mail,
apparently that's how they do it over there.
- Non confrontational.
- Claimed that he'd been going 98 miles per hour
in a 70 mile per hour zone.
Just one problem, Dale was driving a tiny Honda Civic
that he described as a glorified Japanese shopping trolley.
Apparently that just means it's almost like a shopping cart,
very very slow, meaning no way this thing can go
98 miles per hour, so he spends the next year
of his life trying to prove it.
He hires an independent specialist, pays him 600 pounds,
that's $750 approximately, gets this guy to drive
around a two mile track, proving that the top speed
of his Civic is 85 miles per hour.
Apparently he also hired
a glamor shots photographer, because...
- Whoa, he's good lookin'. - Look at this.
- [Rhett] He really wanted to pose for this thing.
- [Link] Driving while dreamy.
- I know what you ladies are thinking, I'd let Dale
drive 98 in my 70 mile per hour zone.
- [Link] Look at those sleeves, even his sleeves are sexy.
- And this worked, I don't know if he submitted the
picture along with his explanation, but this did work.
But I don't know how much the ticket was for.
I think he probably paid more for the specialist
than the ticket, so he's currently trying to talk to
the court to try and get his money back.
And then he can take somebody out on a date,
but he drives apparently in the passenger's seat.
- He could be a host.
- I know it's England actually, that's where the
driver is, sits in it.
- He could be a host of a reality show in America,
or a game show, we'll take them in droves.
- Okay Dale, we'll look into that.
- Do it man, thank you for liking, commenting, and
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