[ST] One way to see Paris

[Steve Lawler <slawler@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

And what waits for our hero at the end of the trip makes it even more 
worthwhile.

"On an August morning in 1978, French filmmaker Claude Lelouch mounted a 
gyro-stabilized camera to the bumper of a Ferrari 275 GTB and had a 
friend, a professional Formula 1 racer, drive at breakneck speed through 
the heart of Paris. The film was limited for technical reasons to 10 
minutes; the course was from Porte Dauphine, through the Louvre, to the 
Basilica of Sacre Coeur.

No streets were closed, for Lelouch was unable to obtain a permit.

The driver completed the course in about 9 minutes, reaching nearly 140 
MPH in some stretches. The footage reveals him running real red lights, 
nearly hitting real pedestrians, and driving the wrong way up real 
one-way streets.

Upon showing the film in public for the first time, Lelouch was 
arrested. He has never revealed the identity of the driver, and the film 
went underground until a DVD release a few years ago."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2851488008488190547

-- 
Steve Lawler
Verona, NJ, USA

2001 Sprint ST "Blue Devil"

"The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level 
of stupidity attained by the bourgeois."
             -- Gustave Flaubert
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