Brazilian Lawyer Gets Fined For Driving At 4,800 km/h
A Brazilian engineer has been in the news all over the world for being punished for something impossible. Rafael de Andrade owns a 1-litre VW Gol and has been fined for driving at 880 km/h. Although the fastest cars in the world are only now reaching 400 km/h, the traffic department from Niteroi, Rio de Janeiro, refuses to cancel the fine. Andrade also refuses to pay. If it was not enough, the lawyer Jucelei Tavares Menezes has been fined for behaving even worse: in 2001, a radar caught him at 4,800 km/h!
Menezes was also driving a VW Gol, but it had a 1,6-litre engine, what would help to explain the difference in the speed, but what we really think that was the cause for the supersonic feat was the fact that Menezes’ Gol was part of a Rolling Stones limited edition. Rock and roll, baby!
The good side of the story is that the traffic department in Blumenau, the city where Menezes lives, has recognised its mistake and canceled the fine with no further discussions. Almeida, on the other hand, is still trying to argue with Niteroi’s traffic department. In Brazil, fines have a rule to be revised: the first request for canceling it is for free. If it is denied, there is still a second chance, but you have to pay the fine in the first place. If the fine is canceled, you can have your money back. Andrade has already made the first request for canceling the fine. Incredibly, the traffic department has refused it…
They know it can't go that fast. But they won't drop the charge because of the revenue it generates. Wouldn't be surprised if they "shared" the revenue earned among bureaucrats.
i think moderator said the most possible thing that may happen! anyway that story made my day... 1.0 liter Gol doing 880km/h hahahahahaha!!
That's about Mach4! BABY! Fastest artificial ROADGOING object on the earth and A human's on the board!!
Lol yeah that's like FOUR TIMES FASTER than the Thrust SSC!!!
In Australia they'd look, agree it was crazy then say you have to pay the fine and then appeal it somehow. You'd spend more on the appeal.
Yeah right, more like 4800 km/year... This is obviously a good job of one of the stupid cops, which by the way are the majority in their profession.
It says that the allowed speed is 40 km/h, so they probably meant he broke the speed limit driving 48 km/h...
almost 3000mph? was he driving something made by NASA?
Yeah! Maybe that was NASA made VW GOL! Watch out you don't see and you don't hear its coming...no chance. If you do some physics i guess you'd realise that shuld be a record for the UNIVERSE.
Was the camera spinning the opposite direction, or was he driving a land speed record car at the same time?
hey, maybe 48km/h sounds more plausible -- seeing the speed limit is 40km/h (guessing "velocidade permitida" is "velocity permitted").
And why is this news only been out 7 years later? Strange.
This is very funny :) I have a problem, what kind of camera that police have? That car was running 244m/s and i think the police camera has a maximum 30fps. The need it 2 seconds to get out of the camera sight. So i think the police needs to change their camera to get the "speedy" vehicles like this, maybe i have a car that runs with 1000Km/h :D
Government-paid scientists claim the earth moved that day so fast that the car froze in the air and the radar (attatched to the earth) caught that amazing speed.
Not funny, I know. My award for the best joke so far goes to LMS.
hehehehe, what a funny story! what kind of idiots they have there to think that this 1.0 liter Gol can reach 880 Km/h!