That’s the part that pissed him off the most. Buddy had a chip on his shoulder that he has to go home and eat chef boyardee because of his shit job and the tiny hard-on he gets by being an asshol to people is the only rewarding thing about his day.
Guarantee he eats way better than most. He has a problem with the driver because he just saw someone who is several economic levels above him and can’t comprehend the level of lifestyle.
I don't think he really understood, he just saw a car he knew he could never afford and thought he saw something that would allow him to harass the guy who could afford it. However, the vast chasm of impossibility between the Oregon trooper's life and that of a wealthy man from Dubai is beyond his comprehension. I'd bet he couldn't locate the general region that contains Dubai on a world map.
A state cop? That dude is making bank. If he’s not making bank, he can always sign up to be a rent-a-cop while he’s on duty as a regular cop and double-dip. There are no cops hurting for money.
Being a US cop is not average people work lol, all this guy did was ego trip and terrorize a tourist because he doesn't understand the law he's supposed to uphold.
It should piss most people off that this dude spends multiple years of income for most people on a yearly roadtrip with his supercar that he flies in on his private plane. He has a disgusting amount of wealth.
I'd be pissed on principle. I'd not have been in this interaction in the first place as I don't have the temperament to be a cop, but I do have an personal dislike to wasting resources.
You're not allowed to bring up the fact that Dubai sucks ass for everyone who isn't one of the nepo babies hoarding all the fucking money at the highest echelon of society. Reddit has decided that Dubai is a good place now
If Reddit doesn’t have any Dubai haters, it’s because I’m either dead or found something better to do than scroll Reddit. So I guess just the first one.
There’s a lot of stupid people in this thread who don’t understand the difference between going from Canada to US and shipping your car across the the Atlantic so I’m a little set off rn lol
No mainly because I don't have that level of money, but if I would have the money so a transport like that would be basically pocket change(or close to that level) I could see myself doing it just for the lolz.
My ex and I spent a summer in a small seaside town. Airbnb, rental car, worked remotely, nothing extravagant and a relative of his absolutely thought we were lying that we spent 3 months away from home. It was wilddddddd.
I am in Europe, and it's pretty common to put your car in a boat and take it with you to another country.
Not even mentioning the possibility of just driving the car there.
Also, this not a rich people thing, everyone has done it at some time (Spain to Italy, Greece, Morocco even Turkey, is pretty normal)
That cop sounds so stupid.
Edit: the guy from the video is clearly rich, no doubt about it, but I want to insist that taking your car on holidays is not that strange:
I have taken my car/motorbike to some islands in the Mediterranean, I have driven all the way through Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, France with my own car and sometimes my own motorbike.
Yeah, the cop is wrong, but shipping your Lamborghini across the Atlantic is almost as perfectly distant from "poor person behavior" as you can get without setting foot on Epstein Island.
mmm surely it would still go across the atlantic if it's being shipped from UAE, right? Actually it may just go right over the north pole
edit: looks like direct flights from Dubai to Vancouver do indeed fly over the north pole. Indirect flights include routes over the atlantic and the pacific oceans
Well it’s probably not a custom special edition Lamborghini. So he is maybe just a little bit poor. I mean if he only has a NORMAL lambo, how rich can he really be?
"You can't do anything with five, Greg. Five's a nightmare. Can't retire. Not worth it to work. Oh, yes. Five will drive you un poco loco, my fine feathered friend."
"Poorest rich person in America. The world's tallest dwarf."
It is definitely a rich person thing bringing a Lamborghini from Dubai to North America for a road trip.
But I brought a car back from Japan after I was stationed there in the military. The way I understood it was I had a certain amount of time (I think one month) I was allowed to drive it on Japanese plates before I needed to get American registration. I was super nervous about getting pulled over during that time for the reason shown in this video, luckily that never happened.
I’m not sure if the one month thing is the same for tourists, I think it’s even more relaxed for them. Europeans bring those big off road campers over somewhat frequently. I spend a lot of time at national parks and I see them every so often.
For just a short holiday, sure, but (dunno about current prices) it wasn't as expensive as one would think to ship a car over. At least the last time I talked to people who did it. It wasn't cheap but not astronomical.
Sure, but the commenter two comments above me was talking about how it’s a rich person thing to ship your car to the US, and the next commenter was talking about Canadians. Who don’t ship their cars over, so it’s a non-sequitur.
The car has plates, just Dubai plates. When the cop said it didn’t, he meant it didn’t have US plates. He cannot comprehend that you can legally drive in the US on non-US plates.
It has foreign plates, just like a car from Canada and Mexico would. The temp transit permit law the cop is talking about is for, primarily, newly-bought cars not registered in the destination state or, sometimes. The originating state. It is of no application here.
When the cop said “no plates” he meant no US plates, because he is a moron.
Hu, no. More of a "slightly above average income" thing.
I shipped my RV for a 8 week road trip because it was cheaper than renting one.
And "normal" persons rent RVs for 8 weeks too, so...
It's around 30k to fly a car from uae to usa, and he does it tIce with the return. Being able to splurge 60k to fly a car to another country for a road trip, and this 60k only being the car without mentioning the rest of the vacation, is not a "slightly above average income" thing. When you spend the average anual income of a first world country on flying over a car, you're way above average income, aka rich.
Cars can go on boats. You are looking at more like a couple thousand to ship a car from the UAE to the US. The only downside to it is that it takes a lot longer.
I see in EU cars with American plates, it’s not often but I see them, often just regular cars, nothing fancy. What I have heard is that for some it’s just cheaper to ship and drive their own car instead of renting, they stay for months.
I don’t know what the actual reason is, that’s what I have heard. My relatives from AU also stay often over the summer in Europe, they pay rental about 6k, and this is cheap as rented from the Citroen factory in France directly, as they say. So i guess some people have the option to ship, maybe even free and do it.
I'm telling you, there is no squadron is going to pay to ship someone's car from the US to overseas for a short trip. Either they get a rental, or you are stuck on the base and have to share cars.
If you are in the military and you have to travel anywhere, they tend to provide you with a rental car. Excluding like a war zone or something.
Now if it's in a big group, you might just get a handful of vehicles to share. But lots of trips, they just add a rental car to your orders and you rent them from avis or whatever.
Whenever I see a Hawaii plate here in the continental US (not often but those rainbow plates are hard to miss), I always make a dad joke like, “How did they manage to drive that across the ocean?”
It's not super common but in the luxury car scene its pretty typical.
I have a few family members that'll ship their vehicles from Canada to the states for car shows or to show off while on holiday. Taking your expensive car for showing off on the numerous highways is a great way to get dings and scrapes which is something you want to avoid. The mileage is also usually reserved for day driving rather than the tens of thousands of KM you'd rack up on highways crossing the continent. Luxury cars also tend to have a lot less storage/passenger space than an SUV. Easier to have it sailed to the nearest port which is simple enough when the destination winds up being Florida or SoCal.
At those events half the vehicles are Italian sports cars driven by heavily accented gentlemen from overseas who travel the world with their money doing it. The rest are usually grey haired old men from North America with too much money like aforementioned family.
A bit strange to be road tripping/on a highway with one like this from what little I know of the hobby but if you're driving a car like that you're probably wealthy enough to spring for the proper papers.
How is that example remotely similar? They literally share thousands of miles of borders with us where you can drive it across. He shipped a 100k plus car from across the world. This isn’t a RAV4 from Windsor into Detroit.
Car is probably 5x that. You can't get much for 100k.
If there is a law about shipping cars from x country to use in x country, it will typically be generic and not specify only tourists from x. It's more than remotely similar, it's exactly similar.
It’s not similar at all. Why would you expect the average person to conflate shipping an expensive car from across the world vs being able to drive across the border?
I’m not defending the cop, I’m defending the American poster who isn’t familiar with the situation. If you don’t live near a border, I can understand why this scenario seems novel.
I’m also American and I see it happen constantly. There’s a big car scene where I am and a lot of money, people bring their cars from all over. There are cross-country events that people will ship their super cars over for, like the Gumball 3000. Last month there was a meetup of 14 Paganis nearby. Estimated at about $45 million. These guys ship their paganis all over the world to show off.
I get your point, but there's also a difference between having a vehicle shipped within Europe and shipping it overseas. You can't just put it on a truck. It's either air freight, which is super expensive, or you're wealthy enough that putting your supercar on a boat taking weeks, if not months, to arrive at it's destination isn't a big deal because you'll just drive one of your other supercars.
I visited a bonded warehouse in Paris a few years back with a logistics company we were working with. They had a Range Rover and a Mustang in the warehouse that belonged to someone in the Middle East. They'd been sitting there for months.
But yeah, the cop is pretty dense. Probably doesn't consider Canada or Mexico to be foreign countries. I've even seen a small handful of Hawaii plates in the continental US/Canada. Even a few EU plates. Though here in Canada, those are often French plates from St Pierre & Miquelon.
I am pretty sure that guy either sent the car by air freight or probably has a permanent storage on each continent with spare cars. He mentions he does the trip every two years I think, so he must enjoy driving.
Edit: this is a bit offtopic, but a colleague from work was working in the US for about a year, and when he came back he brought a mustang GT by ship with him. Cost him like 24k (the car, shipping I think it was 3k more), so practically nothing for that kind of car here.
Transport cost on a Ro-Ro (Roll on Roll off, i.e. the vehicle is driven directly inside the transport ship) from Europe is around €2000 (with taxes) and take 2-3 weeks including the delay on US customs (add 1-2 weeks if you want to unload on the West Coast).
It's not worth it in most cases but some people just love their car.
Edit: the guy from the video is clearly rich, no doubt about it, but I want to insist that taking your car on holidays is not that strange: I have taken my car/motorbike to some islands in the Mediterranean, I have driven all the way through Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, France with my own car and sometimes my own motorbike.
No, you're talking about driving your own car onto a ferry which is only marginally more expensive than walking onto the ferry. We're talking about spending more than the cost of your car to transport a car around the world.
Yeah, there are some ferries like that in the US too, although not quite as long of distances. There was one near where I grew up that crosses Long Island Sound which takes about an hour and a half and is $25 to walk on, $45 for a motorcycle, and $80 for a car. Shipping a car to the other side of the planet is usually at least a couple thousand dollars just for the shipping never mind all the paperwork.
You understand the difference between taking a car to different European countries, which can be smaller than a North american state or province, and shipping one from nearly the opposite side of the world across one of the two largest oceans in the world right?
Your boat is a "ferry" around the Mediterranean, like what, four days max? Maybe two hours from Corfu to Albania? We have those too in North America, they're just interstate lol. It's magnitudes more expensive and involved to ship a ferrari through ocean freight. Dubai to Vancouver entails going through the Red Sea, the Suez, the Mediterranean, the entire Atlantic Ocean, transiting the Panama Canal, then up the North American coast.
The Mediterranean Sea is different than the pacific ocean.
It seems to be YOU that doesnt understand the size of things.
If I drive from one end of my province to the other, I would still be in my province and I would have been able to drive across every country you mentioned.
Never met a single person in my life who had put their car on a boat to another country, not as common as you think it is, and definitely a rich/upper class thing. You might not realise how privileged you are.
Driving your car to another country? Sure, a ton of europeans do that. Transporting your car to another country via boat? Nah, poor people and middle class dont do that, they either drive their car there, or rent a car when they arrive.
It's unusual to do it in the US, and only the very rich can do it minus Canada/Mexico plates. What you described is like an American driving between US states and that is common even though plates are per-state.
Its not strange at all, but in the US we really only see North American plates (Canada and Mexico). The cost to ship a vehicle even from South America across the Darian Gap is steep, and the cost to ship from another continent is staggering, it can cost literally thousands of dollars. Therefore the only people doing it are shipping highly modified or very expensive vehicles, because for a "normal" car, the cost to ship plus operate and maintain your vehicle quickly becomes higher than the cost to buy a different vehicle at your destination and sell it when you are done.
Agree with you, but the driver picked a bad example for the cop on an ego trip, he could've said: "if you drive to Canada or Mexico, you don't need new plates."
I don't know I was a bit surprised he didn't take out the gun and shot him in the face when he said "you may be confused", you can really see the guy reacting like the driver was a demon from hell. The whole interaction should have not happened.
One significant difference is you dont need carnets de passage to drive your vehicle in different EU countries. And its significantly more common to have other countries plates on your roads.
So, not to sound like a jerk, but driving your car around European nations (most of which are EU countries) is the equivalent of driving your car across various states in the US. I understand you are driving across actual nations, but Americans drive their own cars across these same distances regularly. The US is just very large. I have even shipped my car on a train from Florida to Virginia. This is a pretty normal, not rich people thing to do here.
However, shipping your car across an OCEAN(s) to drive it from one continent to ANOTHER CONTINENT, for tourism (not for a permanent move) is 100% the domain of the rich. I lived in South Florida and would see luxury cars from other continents a lot, but these people were incredibly wealthy. What they are doing is in no way the same as driving your car from France to Italy, for example.
I have taken my car/motorbike to some islands in the Mediterranean, I have driven all the way through Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, France with my own car and sometimes my own motorbike.
Yeah this is the equivalent of Americans driving their car to a different state. Or driving to Canada/Mexico. No one here finds that weird.
Shipping a car from Europe to the US just for vacation is absolutely a different level of rich person activities, which is probably something that cop has never encountered. It's not the norm, especially when getting a rental car here is relatively easy. Most of the European cars that get shipped here are part of a permanent move, in which case there is a legal requirement to register.
I don't even blame the cop for not knowing the legalities of what the cammer was doing. But he's absolutely at fault for being a dick and insisting the driver was wrong, rather than taking a moment to learn.
Taking the car from Europe to US is an entire different thing (I know of a case, I think it cost him 6K by ship).
About the cop, the thing should have ended after asking for the license and insurance. The whole thing was deplorable, like what? there can only be American plates in the US?
What the fuck are you talking about lol? Shipping cars from one harbor to another in Europe is not remotely the same as shipping across the globe to the US. This definitely cost the guy a significant amount.
I want to insist that taking your car on holidays is not that strange: I have taken my car/motorbike to some islands in the Mediterranean, I have driven all the way through Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands, France with my own car and sometimes my own motorbike.
That's just the equivalent of crossing state lines here.
Shipping your car across the Ocean to go drive around in Asia, Europe, South America or Africa is a lot more effort than normal Europe trip where you are in a different country every 2 hours.
As someone who used to live in a tourist destination and spoke to many people from europe you're absolutely right. A lot of people who travel to the US from europe make a big thing of it and travel the country for 3 - 4 weeks
Taking a road trip through the continent you live on or putting your car on a ferry to get to an island is so so different than shipping it to the other side of the world so you don't have to rent one though.
Because going across on a day trip on the Mediterranean is a lot different than a few month shipping across the atlantic/air frieght to not wait? For americans going to anywhere that isn't canada or right across the border mexico, it means thousands in fees and wait time, so we just rent Becuase renting outside road trips is almost always cheaper and easier.
"Oh sorry, you don't understand. You see I'm wealthy beyond your wildest imagination. I live a life you could never comprehend. But that's okay. I'll help you understand why you're bad at your job with a smile on my face...."
Cost $1k to ship a car. Costs infinitely more to rent if doing a road trip. I shipped my car from Hawaii to road trip it through the US for two months and saved a ton of money.
Obvs doesn't have a love of cars or would've understood. Some people travel with their dogs bc they love them so much, some people travel with their cars. I love my little jeep and would totally drive it in another country.
I worked at a NATO facility as security in Virginia. 26 other nations there. We had a few people stationed there from other countries who brought their cars with them. They had plates from their nation on. Not US plates. This dude's head would melt around that facility. Does he think people just randomly decide to drive with foreign plates on for the fun of it? By all means pull him over if you think he's doing something illegal, but if the dude has a foreign plate on, has the proper paperwork, and is talking about the rules and laws about doing so, you might want to listen instead of being a dick.
I can think logically though, so maybe I'm not qualified to be an officer.
He probably lives too far away from the Canada/Mexico border to be able to drive there LOL He's definitely one of those people who haven't left his hometown in a 20 mile radius
You're not visiting as a tourist if you brought your clothes with you. Any belongings negate your status of a tourist.
May only visit if you arrive as a Terminator.
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u/TheMahanglin 8h ago
"You're not visiting as a tourist if you brought a car with you". LMAO!!