{"id":257196,"date":"2020-04-10T09:42:36","date_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/?p=257196"},"modified":"2020-04-10T09:42:36","modified_gmt":"2020-04-10T04:42:36","slug":"driver-caught-speeding-tells-police-he-did-it-to-avoid-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/driver-caught-speeding-tells-police-he-did-it-to-avoid-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Driver Caught Speeding Tells Police He Did It To Avoid Coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is shocking to see how little people know about the coronavirus or COVID-19. The only thing we do know for certain and which the WHO has begged people to understand is to stay home, wash your hands, maintain social distancing and avoid traveling. One genius in Surrey, England found a loophole around these precautions \u2013 by trying to outrun the coronavirus in a car, Fast &amp; Furious style!<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">An officer stopped a driver who was speeding on the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/M25?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#M25<\/a> at 130mph. His reply to why he was speeding was \u201cI THOUGHT THE FASTER I WENT THE LESS CHANCE I WOULD CATCH  CORONA VIRUS\u201d.  Driver reported to court. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/slowdown?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#slowdown<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Snp6JEYpHf\">pic.twitter.com\/Snp6JEYpHf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Roads Policing &#8211; Surrey Police &#8211; UK (@SurreyRoadCops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SurreyRoadCops\/status\/1247643116821188609?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Recently, a driver was caught doing 130mph on the M25 by Surrey Police. The officer stopped the motorist and asked why he was speeding. According to the police officer, the driver claimed that he was trying to avoid the coronavirus.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I thought the faster I went the less chance I would catch coronavirus,&#8221; the driver said in his defense.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This sounds more like a potential plot for a future <strong>Fast &amp; Furious <\/strong>story! Imagine Dominic Toretto (aka Vin Diesel) outrunning in a cloud of deadly coronavirus gas, in a Toyota Corona! To all the Hollywood executives reading this, make it happen!<\/p>\n<p>But all jokes aside, we shouldn\u2019t be surprised at how ridiculous this is. After all, there are people who still believe that coronavirus can be contracted by things with a name \u2018corona\u2019 on it. Don\u2019t believe this? Just ask the manufacturers of the beer brand Corona, who had to stop production of their product due to people being too afraid to buy it in stores.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Corona beer producer halts brewing due to pandemic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/d4AwWNCbKD\">https:\/\/t.co\/d4AwWNCbKD<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JDgzAucCln\">pic.twitter.com\/JDgzAucCln<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BBC News (World) (@BBCWorld) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCWorld\/status\/1246006426998386688?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The moral of the story is that you can\u2019t outrun coronavirus in a car, you can\u2019t stop it with bullets or guns like some superhero, and more importantly you can\u2019t contract coronavirus with items that have word \u2018corona\u2019 in it. Stay home, stay safe and always wash your hands.<\/p>\n<p>For more interesting stories, stay posted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is shocking to see how little people know about the coronavirus or COVID-19. The only thing we do know for certain and which the WHO has begged people to understand is to stay home, wash your hands, maintain social distancing and avoid traveling. One genius in Surrey, England found a loophole around these precautions \u2013 by trying to outrun [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/driver-caught-speeding-tells-police-he-did-it-to-avoid-coronavirus\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":257199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2374,1298,2199,1292,1291],"tags":[],"adace-sponsor":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-257196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-crime","8":"category-culture","9":"category-featured","10":"category-humor","11":"category-social-media"},"wps_subtitle":"A novel excuse for a novel virus.","img_urls":{"thumbnail":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-penalties-for-speeding-drivers-364x205.jpg",364,205,true],"medium":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-penalties-for-speeding-drivers-758x472.jpg",758,472,true],"full":["https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/New-penalties-for-speeding-drivers.jpg",1440,897,false]},"author_name":"Sher Alam","categories_name":["Crime","Culture","Featured","Humor","Social Media"],"title_text":"Driver Caught Speeding Tells Police He Did It To Avoid Coronavirus","related_stories":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts?filter&per_page=4&categories=2374,1298,2199,1292,1291&exclude=257196","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257199"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257196"},{"taxonomy":"adace-sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/propakistani.pk\/lens\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/adace-sponsor?post=257196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}