Great Scott! DeLorean Owner Ticketed for Travelling 88 MPH

Everyone knows that if you own a DeLorean, you’re allowed to go 88 mph, regardless of the speed limit for everyone else. In fact, you have to.

Well, apparently everyone doesn’t know, as DeLorean owner Nigel Mills found out the hard way when he was pulled over by Essex police after being clocked driving his steel stallion at 88 miles per hour.

If you’ll recall, that’s the speed Doc Brown’s DeLorean had to hit in order to commence time travel. And if you don’t remember, I’m disappointed in you. (Either way, feel free to refresh your memory in the clip below, but careful, there’s a swear word or two.)

When Mills maxed out at 89 mph, police must have realized the DeLorean wasn’t going to eradicate the space time continuum, so they went ahead and ticketed him.

“I wasn’t trying to time travel,” Mills told The Guardian. “It was at 11am on Sunday and the road was completely clear.”

Fortunately, justice is not blind, and the two officers who ticketed Mills neglected to show up for the court date, so the case got thrown out. And Mills and his time machine were free to make like a tree and get out of there.

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Via [The Guardian]