[VIDEO] World’s Sixth Richest Man Drives a Corvette, Gets Pulled Over On His Own Island

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[VIDEO] World's Sixth Richest Man Drives a Corvette, Gets Pulled Over On His Own Island


Owning the island still wasn’t enough to keep billionaire Larry Ellison from getting a ticket for speeding in his orange C8 Corvette convertible, according to media reports.

The co-founder of Oracle and the world’s sixth richest man with a Forbes-estimated net worth of $108.3 billion, Ellison purchased some 98 percent of the properties on the Hawaiian island of Lanai for an estimated $300 million in 2012 from fellow billionaire and Dole chairman David Murdock.

A blurred-out Ellison can be seen in the Corvette in bodycam footage obtained by Hawaii News Now explaining to an officer in October 2022 that he was just “trying to get home for dinner with my kids” when he ran a stop sign while speeding on Lanai near Manele Road.

To his credit, though, Ellison didn’t try to flaunt his wealth to get out of a ticket, telling the officer “there’s no good excuse” for what he had done.

“Okay, cool,” the officer said. “Can I see your driver’s license, registration, and insurance, please?”

Ellison looked through his belongings before finally having to tell the cop that he couldn’t find his license.

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The Maui Police Department officer then issued a citation to Ellison.

The cop’s actions earned praise from a local councilman named Gabe Johnson.

“Some communities, as we all know, have let the elites just run wild,” Johnson told Hawaii News Now. “To have one of our own police officers actually treat him like an equal just as everyone should be treated equally under the eyes of the law – I’m proud to say, ‘Nice job, MPD.'”

The real takeaway for Corvette Blogger, however, may be the fact that the world’s sixth richest man drives a C8 Corvette when he could obviously drive anything he wants!


Source:
Hawaii News Now

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  1. Has everyone figured out yet that life is a frustrating series of temptations only to be swatted away by various and sundry complications of said temptations?

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