UK - Glee of passers-by as seized £300,000 Lamborghini is displayed

[dipsydoodle]

A sports car valued at around £300,000 has been put on display outside Scotland Yard after being seized by police because the driver allegedly had no insurance.

The 'glow in the dark' purple Lamborghini Aventador, rumoured to be owned by a wealthy Arab, could be sent to the crusher after it was removed from a Knightsbridge street.

Police have put the car on display outside their HQ while they consider what action to take against the driver.

A passer-by said : “I was walking past when it was craned in to the Scotland Yard forecourt and a huge crowd had gathered on the pavement behind the police tape. You've never seen so many smiling faces on a central London crowd of workers out at lunchtime. It made everyone's day.”

The car could yet find itself suffering a similar fate to the scores of old bangers already seized by police - crushed - if the owner decides not to pay a fine and provide details of up to date insurance.

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/it-made-everyones-day-glee-of-passersby-as-seized-300000-lamborghini-is-displayed-8686045.html

[In_The_Wind]

1. Oh FFS!

[jakeXT]

2. Could they use it for themselves?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/motoring/9986411/Dubais-new-police-car-a-360000-Lamborghini-Aventador.html

[cyberswede]

3. I'm surprised they don't sell seized vehicles at auction.

Gotta be better than crushing them.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

5. It would get a good price, after a paint job.

He should have put the money into insurance, not into "improving" the paint.

[AsahinaKimi]

6. agreed, it shoud be auctioned..

such a waste to crush a car like that.

[RILib]

4. ugly beyond what I could imagine, no taste whatsoever

[LeftinOH]

7. That's about $456,000. I could pay off my mortgage with it, a few times

over. The very existence of this vehicle is offensive -the hideous design and color scheme notwithstanding.