Move over, Fast and Furious franchise — there’s a new street racing legend in town, and he almost certainly has a AARP card in his wallet.
Authorities in Memphis, Tennessee got quite the surprise recently when they clocked an 85-year-old driver absolutely *sending it* down the road at a blistering 110 miles per hour. For context, that’s not a typo. That’s one-hundred-and-ten miles per hour. In a car. Driven by a man who has been alive since 1940.
The octogenarian speed demon wasn’t just caught speeding, mind you — he was accused of actual street racing, which means there was apparently another vehicle involved in this geriatric Grand Prix. Somewhere out there is a second driver who looked over at their competition, saw a man old enough to have watched the original release of Casablanca in theaters, and still thought, “yeah, this is gonna be a fair race.”
Police pulled over the world’s least expected street racer, presumably after recovering from their collective disbelief. The man reportedly makes most 20-year-old gearheads look like they’re driving through a school zone by comparison.
Now, we’re not here to suggest that senior citizens can’t live life to the fullest. Eighty-five is just a number, dreams don’t have expiration dates, and frankly, the sheer audacity of this man is something most of us could only aspire to. But perhaps — *perhaps* — the appropriate venue for this particular need for speed is a racetrack, and not a public road where other humans are attempting to exist peacefully.
On the bright side, he definitely doesn’t need to worry about his driving being described as “slow and cautious” at his next family gathering.
No word yet on whether his car had one of those “I’d Rather Be Racing” bumper stickers, but honestly, at this point, we’d be disappointed if it didn’t.
*Source: Action News 5 Memphis, via Reddit r/offbeat*
Original story via Reddit Offbeat
