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Former Dentist Owns YouTube Lamborghini
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POSTED: 9:42 pm MST November 28,
2007
UPDATED: 11:14 am MST November 29,
2007
PHOENIX -- A Lamborghini Murcielago seen in a YouTube video allegedly going 219 mph on the Red Mountain Freeway in east Mesa is owned by a former Phoenix dentist.Robert Simyar now runs an Internet porn site for which some of the models pose on the same car featured in the video.Arizona Department of Public Safety officials called the freeway incident an "extreme violation of the posted speed 65 mph speed limit" and said they have opened a criminal investigation.The video, which was pulled from YouTube, shows the driver attempting to break the car's previous top speed of 171 mph on a freeway traveled by hundreds of thousands of motorists every day.
Video Shows Lamborghini Drivers Hitting 219 MPH"To do it in the middle of the city at 220 miles an hour -- that's crazy in my opinion," said Brian Kern, a Phoenix resident.The driver's face is never seen in the video. But he describes how he could have gone faster if there hadn't been other cars in the way."I travel this very stretch of freeway daily and many times late at night just at the times this clown is racing and what if it was me that he didn't see?" said a CBS 5 viewer e-mail. "I don't really want to die."Near the end of the clip, the driver challenges someone to top his record, a statement that produces chills for one Phoenix motorist."I take my son to day care and we have to drive over that way," said Kimberly Green.CBS 5 News tried tracking down Simyar at his Phoenix mountain home without any luck. E-mails and phone calls went unanswered.CBS 5 did locate one of the people associated with the video -- an Arizona State University student named Aaron, who didn't give his last name. He also refused to talk about the video.After letting him know the incident was under investigation, the video disappeared from YouTube.ELSEWHERE ON KPHO.COM: A New York judge who jailed a courtroom full of people over a ringing cell phone is off the bench. CLICK HERE for details. MORE SLIDESHOWS: From the bizarre to the tragic to late-breaking news, visit the KPHO.com slideshow section and click away! CLICK HERE for images.
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Video Shows Lamborghini Drivers Hitting 219 MPH"To do it in the middle of the city at 220 miles an hour -- that's crazy in my opinion," said Brian Kern, a Phoenix resident.The driver's face is never seen in the video. But he describes how he could have gone faster if there hadn't been other cars in the way."I travel this very stretch of freeway daily and many times late at night just at the times this clown is racing and what if it was me that he didn't see?" said a CBS 5 viewer e-mail. "I don't really want to die."Near the end of the clip, the driver challenges someone to top his record, a statement that produces chills for one Phoenix motorist."I take my son to day care and we have to drive over that way," said Kimberly Green.CBS 5 News tried tracking down Simyar at his Phoenix mountain home without any luck. E-mails and phone calls went unanswered.CBS 5 did locate one of the people associated with the video -- an Arizona State University student named Aaron, who didn't give his last name. He also refused to talk about the video.After letting him know the incident was under investigation, the video disappeared from YouTube.Copyright 2008 by KPHO.com. All rights reserved.
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