Car show scene is dangerous, man

Full details have yet to be released, but according to the OC Register (photos courtesy of them too) Benjamin Nolasco was arrested for robbing a bank in broad daylight. He escaped, but not before an undercover officer intercepted a transmission for officers to be on the lookout for a "white sports car with the bumper missing". Turns out Benjamin was using a JZA80 Supra Turbo as his escape vehicle. Shortly afterwards, authorities stopped him in Irvine but before they could get to him, he tried to slit his own throat using a box cutter.


Another reason why this is interesting, is because apparently Benjamin was part of the ever so popular "Team Hybrid" car show crew, as exemplified by the lanyard below. Now I'm not sure if they give those things out to every idiot at car shows, and its just a coincidence that he has one, or if he indeed is/was part of the crew. One can only speculate that the passion to pay someone to mold bodykits to your car and spend thousands upon thousands of dollars to install parts to impress onlookers forced him to rob a bank so he could beat somebody else at a car show.

This is an EPIC FAIL for several reasons:

1) When you're going to rob a bank, perhaps you should use an inconspicuous car, or something that blends in and will be difficult to pick out. NOT A WHITE SUPRA, WITH A FRONT MOUNT INTERCOOLER, AND MISSING BUMPER.

2) If you must use a white Supra Turbo with a front mount intercooler and no front bumper, MAKE SURE ITS NOT A SHOW CAR, REALLY DOES HAVE 800HP AND CAN REALLY SMOKE COPS. The cops aren't going to let you go because you won "Best JDM" at China town showoff in '99.

3) If you decide that after getting caught after robbing a bank, in broad daylight, driving a white Supra Turbo with no front bumper and front mount intercooler, that its time to end your life, don't fail to kill yourself. Since he did indeed fail at ending his own life, he has the rest of his life to look forward to as the idiot who tried to rob a bank in Brian Earl Spilner's car.

Friends don't let friends join show crews.