Arizona authorities furious over 215 mph Bugatti video
Saturday, February 11th, 2012 at
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PHOENIX (Reuters) – Arizona police are seeing red over the driver of a Bugatti Veyron luxury car who seems to have given himself the green light to drive over 215 miles per hour on a public freeway. A roughly three-minute video that surfaced this week purports to show the mystery motorist reaching those speeds during seven adrenaline-charged runs in 2009. Bart Graves, an Arizona Department of Public Safety spokesman, said on Friday the driver would be thrown in jail if caught trying to repeat the same “incredibly stupid stunt. …
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