Don't Film Your Crimes and Upload Them to YouTube

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[hanthonyc]

"The faster you go through a school zone, the less time spent potentially hitting children"

[michaelbailey]

Crimes not even withstanding I'd be absolutely pissed if I was the sponsor. "Here, use this camera to film your cool brand-safe actions" "Okay so crimes"

[meganrogers]

My brother was hit by a car once, and thankfully the driver was going the speed limit in a 35mph zone. He was taken unconscious to the hospital where he spent several days, spent several days in the hospital, spent some time in a wheelchair while recovering, and now permanently has metal rods in his body.

Hitting someone while driving 90+ mph wouldn't lead to an injury — that's a fatality.

[crabman]

If you want to drive your sportscar super fast, either find a highway with a speed limit that high (Which likely doesn't exist, I think I-95 tops out at 70 MPH) or book some time at whatever race track you have access to. Or do like the Mythbusters did and use a decommissioned runway or something.

There's a quote I heard at an auto shop; "Doesn't matter what engine you have in there, that fancy car goes as fast as anything else on the road in downtown traffic."

[Ixonyard]

Honest mistake? Really? If he had been doing 45 in a 35 zone, that would have been a "mistake". Where I live, that "mistake" would have landed him in jail for 1 year.

[sneakersnake]

Counter-argument: Film your crimes, upload them to YouTube, and be punished for them, so Justice is done.

[SekateStudio]

"Honest mistake" is one hell of an understatement. Motor vehicle fatalities number in the tens of thousands in the USA alone, speed limits are some of the most important baseline concepts of knowing how to drive, and literally everyone constantly hears about the dangers of reckless driving from the day they can understand language.

Deliberately pulling off a stunt like this as a flex shows blatant disregard for road safety (and by extension the safekeeping of human lives) and an extended suspension of his driver's license should be the absolute bare minimum punishment. The justice system is honestly far too nice with dangerous drivers.

[FaynarsSaiqo]

I wouldn't call choosing to go 60mph over the limit for fun an honest mistake, especially since he was filming and probably planned to do that in advance

[billyccall]

If you have Lambo money then you have track money. No excuses.

[TheEDFLegacy]

The fact that this video needs to exist is terrifying. You'd think this is common sense, but common sense is uncommon.

[ThePartyKnife]

In Denmark, if you are caught driving faster than 100%+ over the speed limit, they would have confiscated his car and sold it at auction, taken away his drivers licence for several years, and he would have received an absolutely massive fine... xD

[Brickzie]

On his podcast he just said "so some people are mad about it but..." he's trying to justify his mistake as just a mistake, but guy lost all my respect.

[TNGMug]

New Jersey... incidentally where NHL star Johnny Gaudreau was killed by a reckless driver only a few months ago.

[ergergzbhzefer]

I love that you use this to raise awareness about the horror that is car centric society

[GSBarlev]

My main takeaway from this is that Marques is *darn lucky* he didn't do this in Virginia. The Editor in Chief of _Jalopnik, _ back in 2014, spent *three nights in jail* for going ~30mph over the speed limit on an unpopulated rural straightaway while doing a car review of the (then-)new Chevy Camaro.

[PatNeedhamUSA]

If only MKBHD could throw a Frisbee at 96mph

[Jeff]

Quite the intuitive leap there: I like MKBHD, therefore, he learned his lesson and won't do it again.

[Omlett_E]

If i had a nickel for every time a youtuber committed a crime for a sponsor and uploaded it to youtube i could sponsor a youtuber on my own

[tarredion]

Everything I hear about this makes me angrier and angrier *sigh*
Reckless driving is just … as someone who was hit by a car that wasn’t even speeding, just started relatively slowly driving across a crosswalk before they were supposed to (to clarify, I was supposed to and allowed to be crossing and I was right behind some people, like within a meter, the car driver wasn’t meant to start yet alone drive yet)…
Yeah, no. It’s indefensible to speed, let alone in a school zone, or zone w kids

[debries]

Here in Europe-Land, if you drive ~30 mph over the speed limit and you're caught, you instantly lose your driver's license for 2 months.

At Marques's speed, he'd have lost it for half a year.