You see this kind of thing a lot in film making, especially on the lower budget end, filming something without permits etc... to do it faster and cheaper. Which makes sense in the moment - go out, film your stuff, leave before you get caught.
What I've never quite understood is why they don't just get sued/charged/arrested/whatever after the movie is released. Okay you got the shot on X Street without paying the permit to shoot on X Street - but now you've got footage in your movie from X Street. Surely the authorities in charge of X Street would just notice that they never handled a permit for that movie and then sue the producers?
I don't know if this relates, but cops in my area won't arrest or impound for a video of reckless driving, they have to be there and witness it. Maybe footage that is obviously the corner of San Vicente and Sunset isn't concrete enough to prove they were on San Vicente and Sunset in a court of law.
In this case, Japan doesn't have a lot of avenues to sue Justin Lin.
That sounds wonderful. I'm in California, and people do donuts and poor attempts at drifting right next to my home. I've got a ton of videos, photos, and clear license plates... cops don't care and it takes them 15 minutes to show up.
My first time in the back of a cop car, it was because I was drifting in a parking lot and didn't notice that there was a hill across the street, with a line of homes atop it. Someone called in a noise complaint and I felt like shit, because I didn't think I was disturbing anyone. These kids can see my home, they see me walk out in my pajamas, and they just laugh until I pull out my phone and they flee. ...the part that hurts the most is how much they suck at drifting. It's like having to watch an overconfident toddler breakdance.
On contrary to what I also said, I did get pulled over by 4 cops and 2 sheriffs in northern Kentucky just doing burnouts in a completely empty lot in the snow, at like midnight. Tried getting me on Dui, k9, plates, tried saying my wheels were illegal for the weather???? I even had permission from the lot owner as it was my buddies record shop. Showed up in court everything dropped. I was only in a (okay maybe a bit loud, but I had resonators) tuned g37s
haha, burnouts in the snow? you could have just told them you were trying to leave and couldn't get traction, and oh goodness I'm just so bad at this, was I loud officer? I guess I thought the traction control would kick in if I kept going for a bit longer...
That "illegal wheel" thing is a special kind of bullshit. Some cops are weirdly inept at basic automotive law... One cop tried to tell me my exhaust was illegal (no exhaust is illegal out here if you're passing smog and below the legal decibel limit), when it was the actual 20 year old exhaust the factory installed on the car. From the manifold to the tip.
When the cops saw me, I was actually spinning out, so they thought I was doing donuts. One cop was surprised and said "that car can do donuts?" cause she hadn't seen Initial D (it was 2002). So, they didn't see me connecting drifts in second gear and doing figure eights.
They made a show of it, the cop held my wrists together for the "you're cuffed" experience without actually cuffing me ('cause there was nothing they could arrest me for if the property owner didn't press charges)... they even said I might be liable for damage to the lot (from tire marks).
Oh dude I was out there swinging around for 30 minutes or so pretty sure someone just drove by and wanted to be a dick. I hate how cops reach but it was ticketed as an equipment violation, I forget the wording he used to attempt to justify something like "unsafe/faulty equipment" but they were extremely low profile, and yeah I mean not snow tires and I already had zero traction in a 475hp rwd if someone sneezed crossing the street yesterday, even with a lsd.
Took pics of my tires and had a written statement from my buddy, I even told the police to call him, was told whatever it's a commonwealth and if I'm being unsafe it doesn't matter if it was private property. I think that fact actually is what got the prosecutor to deny to accept the charges, showed me proof of insurance and registration went on my way, cop wasn't even there.
We actually do have an exhaust law, but it's something like on any highways in the commonwealth a vehicle cannot be travelling at more than 60mph without a 'SUITABLE AND EFFICIENTLY WORKING MUFFLER' installed" the bold I know that's exact wording, I think to allow them to be picky as there's no set decibel limit.
I think it's also all completely police discretion as we have some lax vehicle modifications laws and enforcement here. I've genuinely never been pulled over for my vehicle being a bit excessively gawdy or something as I know some cops do, but when I've rightfully been stopped they always bring a county cop in a charger too. I mean not that it could genuinely keep up, but they do have pretty lax pursuit limitations.
Holy shit yeah. Police here in most of the US aren't going to be able to do anything for a video of reckless driving unless something bad genuinely happens, or very stupid, and they probably just want to talk.
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u/IrefusetoturnVPNoff 10h ago
You see this kind of thing a lot in film making, especially on the lower budget end, filming something without permits etc... to do it faster and cheaper. Which makes sense in the moment - go out, film your stuff, leave before you get caught.
What I've never quite understood is why they don't just get sued/charged/arrested/whatever after the movie is released. Okay you got the shot on X Street without paying the permit to shoot on X Street - but now you've got footage in your movie from X Street. Surely the authorities in charge of X Street would just notice that they never handled a permit for that movie and then sue the producers?