{"id":6904,"date":"2015-10-20T12:19:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-20T19:19:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6904"},"modified":"2015-10-22T12:23:54","modified_gmt":"2015-10-22T19:23:54","slug":"those-motherf%e2%80%a0ckers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/10\/20\/those-motherf%e2%80%a0ckers\/","title":{"rendered":"“Those MotherF\u2020ckers!”"},"content":{"rendered":"

from The Daily Beast<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

Street-Racing Arab Playboys Tear Up L.A.<\/h1>\n

by\u00a0M.L. Nestel<\/a>
\n\"\"Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof\/The Daily Beast<\/em><\/p>\n

The Qatari sheikh who staged an illegal street race through Beverly Hills is just one of a cohort of rich, car-obsessed Arabs who are eyeing L.A. as their new favorite vacation spot.<\/p>\n

The speed-freak Qatari sheikh who\u00a0fled<\/a>\u00a0the U.S. after running into trouble with cops\u2014for allegedly staging a private Grand Prix in Beverly Hills\u2014was living the high life in California, renting a palatial abode for $55,000 a month, The Daily Beast has learned.<\/p>\n

Cops suspect that\u00a0Sheikh Khalid bin Hamad al-Thani<\/a>\u00a0was behind the wheel of an unregistered Giallo Modena yellow Ferrari LaFerrari that street-raced another driver (in a Porsche GT3) for over 30 minutes on September 12, and \u201calmost killed someone\u201d as throngs of neighborhood kids gawked on the sidewalks.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a source who had been shadowing al-Thani said that his brother arrived in L.A. also sporting multimillion-dollar wheels\u2014a satin white LaFerrari\u2014and that his car magically \u201chad a California plate on it within a day of arrival.\u201d<\/p>\n

Several kids in the neighborhood claimed to have seen the race. \u201cI was by the house and watched as they sped by my house and they woke up my parents, who were sleeping,\u201d said one 10-year-old. \u201cNext day, [the sheikh\u2019s family] were gone.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another 10-year-old boy was revved up over the Ferrari festivities. \u201cIt was really loud,\u201d he said, smiling, as his mother looked on disapprovingly. \u201cI was playing in the alley and the car started smoking,\u201d he said. (The smoking, a source with knowledge of autos said, \u201cwas caused by dumb driving… [the sheikh] drove the car when it was cold and the oil wasn\u2019t properly warmed up.\u201d)<\/p>\n

The mother of the boy admitted the illegal event \u201cwas exciting for the kids\u201d but she remains \u201creally pissed.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThey think they can come here and do whatever they want,\u201d she said. After the roadsters roared by the family\u2019s home multiple times, she said her husband shouted: \u201cThose motherfuckers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Other neighbors (most of them parents) had seen the cars go by before but on this particular weekend, one mother said, \u201cthey let it rip.\u201d<\/p>\n

[ click to read full article at The Daily Beast<\/a> |<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

from The Daily Beast Street-Racing Arab Playboys Tear Up L.A. by\u00a0M.L. Nestel Photo Illustration by Emil Lendof\/The Daily Beast The Qatari sheikh who staged an illegal street race through Beverly Hills is just one of a cohort of rich, car-obsessed Arabs who are eyeing L.A. as their new favorite vacation spot. The speed-freak Qatari sheikh […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mirth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}