That’s certainly true - it obviously was planned and everyone knew what was going to happen (and exactly who was driving). But it doesn’t change the driver’s lack of visibility with their dangerous stunt - they knew there were a bunch of people at the top filming them, but couldn’t see them clearly, much less anything else.
Given that they were apparently inspired by a similar stunt by a different Youtubing a-hole on that same street, I’m guessing it’s going to disproportionately be the people who live on there…
People are idiots. But I do wonder if this was rented in their real name or whether is was rented with a stolen credit card and fake or stolen ID?
Either way, Any hit to the Tesla battery pack could total the car. It seems ridiculous that the LAPD is calling it misdemeanor hit and run given the other damages.
A few years ago on a trip to the RTP area Enterprise tried really hard to get me to upgrade to an SUV. I told them no; I didn’t need one and I’d be perfectly happy with whatever crappy sedan they had. (I’d really prefer not to rent a car at all, but for a variety of reasons it wasn’t practical on this trip.)
Turns out they were out of the crappy sedans I’d expected and I ended up with a Dodge Challenger. Not quite the same as that Shelby Mustang, but still a bit more car than I had intended.
So although it was a rented car, and said driver somehow assembled an audience of cell phone cameraman before the stunt, the LAPD was unable to identify him?
Super weird that LAPD claims to be unable to track this person down for all the reasons stated above.
However, the rental company’s insurance company sure as hell will. They ain’t gonna let themselves be on the hook for that nonsense and you better believe a civil suit is coming from them.
Just a teeny bit when I went out to get dinner. Because of the timing of the trip, I did most of my driving in rush hour traffic so there wasn’t much of a point to it.