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Billionaire drives too fast on his private island and gets a warning
Larry Ellison in his sports car. A police officer warned him after speeding.
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Having your own private island can feel like a completely self-determined zone. A US billionaire had to learn that this is not the case.
A lot of money in the account, your own private island – what should happen to you there, thought US billionaire Larry Ellison and went with him his sports car on his Island too fast and then ignored a stop sign. What he didn’t notice: The responsible police department on the Hawaiian island does not yet belong to him – and an officer took on Ellison directly.
According to “Hawaii News Now”, the police officer stopped the currently sixth richest person in the world and accused him of his crimes: “The reason I stopped you is that you ran over the stop sign and drove a little too fast there.” Ellison reportedly said he wanted to “come home for dinner with my kids,” but also apologized for the mistakes.
Doubly embarrassing: the billionaire didn’t have a driver’s license with him on the trip with his Corvette. According to US media, he is said to have received a penalty on the spot for the offenses collected. “Some communities, as we all know, have let the elite run wild,” Maui City Councilman Gabe Johnson, who lives on the island, told Hawaii News Now. “That one of our own police officers actually treated him as an equal, as everyone should be treated equally before the law – I’m proud to say: Good job MPD!”
Incidentally, for Ellison it is not the first adversity on the island, which he owns 98 percent of: He had previously had trouble with the local community because his company had the only beach on the island closed to the public – a process , which not only met with little understanding, but also violates applicable law in Hawaii.
Sources:“New York Post”, “SF Gate”“Hawaii News Now”