Skateboarder wins this round

[rusnak]

On further review, I'm going with Motion's theory that it is staged. The whole thing just does not seem right.

[Norm K]

Originally Posted by vash

and i bet that passenger lost a few valuable seconds getting the fancy door opened. regular door that kid might have been caught.

Originally Posted by rusnak

On further review, I'm going with Motion's theory that it is staged. The whole thing just does not seem right.

I'm kinda leaning in the staged direction too, in part because of how quickly the passenger was able to unbuckle, get that fancy door opened and begin his pursuit - almost as though he was expecting something to happen.

Add to that the previous observation that the guy videoing somehow managed to avoid showing the complete altercation: he was clearly tracking the car, but for some reason failed to pan when the action started.

Wouldn't surprise me to learn that the windshield had a crack and/or rock chip and that this is a case of some sort of insurance fraud.

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[Gogar]

It's real.

There's not very many orange MP4s in Denver. Maybe only one.

The passenger (and subsequently the driver) caught the kid down the street. Apparently, they were not very kind to him, and now the kid is likely to come out on top. Minus the cost of the windshield, I hope.

[McLovin]

Originally Posted by motion

I smell something fishy.... the video may have been staged. Expensive, I concur, but people have done stupider things.

1) Why didn't the guy filming pan to the right and capture what really happened?

2) Why did the driver take off without waiting for his passenger?

1) Because even in 2016, the majority of people still haven't figured out to turn the camera sideways for video.

2) Prob went to go look for the pass and the kid, or at least get out of the crosswalk and away from the scene. It would be embarassing to just sit there like an idiot in front of all those spectators.

[rusnak]

I started looking for news from Denver about it. Eyewitnesses say the kid was almost hit, and then walked around the McLaren to smash the passenger side of the windshield. He knew to use the wheels to crack the glass.

[Tobra]

Everybody knows you swing a skateboard and hit with the trucks/wheels.

[look 171]

Maybe kid as his ear phones with music blasting screwing off on the crosswalk. Drivers wakes his up and he did like it and goes and smashes his window. Today's kids have the right to to that you know. Too tired to make the last sentence green.

[Jeff Higgins]

Virtually every insurance company replaces windshield for free, waving the deductible.

So, would the kid have smashed the windshield if it was some old beater Chevy or something?

I'll tell you what, if I were standing in that crowd and saw that kid do that, I would have... stood there and hollered obscenities at him.

I'm too old and fat to chase him.

[rusnak]

Originally Posted by Tobra

Everybody knows you swing a skateboard and hit with the trucks/wheels.

Not me. I'd have hit the windshield with the flat part of the board, have it vibrate out of my hands and hit me in the face, then try to run away with my shoelaces untied. I'd be the worst rookie scofflaw menace evarrr.

[Baz]

For those who are saying it was staged......why then have the driver run the stop sign, which is against the law, if you want it on video?

[sc_rufctr]

Originally Posted by Gogar

It's real.

There's not very many orange MP4s in Denver. Maybe only one.

The passenger (and subsequently the driver) caught the kid down the street. Apparently, they were not very kind to him, and now the kid is likely to come out on top. Minus the cost of the windshield, I hope.

I always find it disturbing how quickly people go violent with stuff like this. They got the kid... Let the cops deal with him.

[Porsche-O-Phile]

Bet he doesn't run any stop signs anymore though.

[tcar]

The car is an 'exotic drives' car.
The owner is probably the guy in the passenger seat that chased the boarder.
The guy that 'rented' time in the car ran the sign.

[Gogar]

Originally Posted by tcar

The car is an 'exotic drives' car.
The owner is probably the guy in the passenger seat that chased the boarder.
The guy that 'rented' time in the car ran the sign.

Nah. I emailed the video to my buddy and he telephoned the owner of the car and they apparently chatted about it for a bit.

I think Exotic Drives used to have a McLaren but they don't list one anymore. Maybe it's the one they used to list.

[tcar]

Originally Posted by Gogar

Nah. I emailed the video to my buddy and he telephoned the owner of the car and they apparently chatted about it for a bit.

I think Exotic Drives used to have a McLaren but they don't list one anymore. Maybe it's the one they used to list.

OK... I just saw a local 'news item' that said it was an exotic rentals car.

[Gogar]

Maybe so then! Or maybe this is the one that used to be listed on there.

[tcar]

OK, here's the article I saw here:

Skater Bashes Exotic Car’s Windshield After Collision « CBS Denver

"Mile Hi Drives" here in Denver.

[Gogar]

I guess you're right! Maybe I'm confusing exoticdrivesdenver.com with milehidrives.com.

[tcar]

I shouldn't have used the phrase 'exotic drives'... I meant it generically as one of those companies.

[masraum]

So, the windshield of the McLaren gets dinged. Driver doesn't want to pay for dinged windshield, and fakes this video so his insurance company will pay for the windshield?

Or maybe he'll post here in a day or two with a link to his gofundme site asking for money.