Former NASCAR Driver Applies Trade To Real-Life Scenario
I first assumed this washed up NASCAR racer was one of the guys in BoDeans. Maybe Malcolm McDowell. Either way, I wondered why his mugshot looked the way the sad trombone sounds.
The reason?
He turned a simple traffic stop for missing his front license plate into a 140 mph chase that lasted over 50 miles.
James Neal, 56, was signaled to pull over his 2003 Corvette but opted instead to stomp on the only pedal NASCAR drivers need worry about. Fifty miles (and 20 minutes) later, his ‘vette’s engine blew up and the cops arrested him without a struggle.
Before his car asploded, Neal had more or less escaped the police. The sheriff’s department said that because the license plate crime was so minor and the old spikey-haired man was driving like a … well, like an old man with spiked hair, the Highway Patrol stopped its pursuit in hopes that he’d slow down and not kill anyone. They planned to head him off at the pass, which in this case was Interstate 5 outside of La Jolla.
Neal faces a month in jail. But because he never won a national race, that probably doesn’t bother you as much as the fact that a Corvette can’t open up to 130 mph for half and hour without needing a pit stop.
That shatters a lot of my dreams, man.
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Photo courtesy of Yahoo! Sports via the AP
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