Not exactly a hairy supercar moment but many many years ago, I was in France at Eurodisney with the family.
On the last day, while being in the park with the wife and kids, someone tried to steal our Cayenne Turbo in the Eurodisney parking lot. The car was parked around 50 meters from a major bus station but apparently nobody cared.
The thieves drilled the driver side lock (no other damage but I wasn't able to close the door anymore) and tried to steal the car but the alarm system was set to a different setting (now not possible anymore), so the honk/siren worked longer than the legal limit of 30 seconds. My luck.
Eurodisney couldn't care less about our situation, so we drove to the next police station, a pretty big one right next to Eurodisney. This was at around 5 pm.
We arrived at that big police station, fully fenced, huge building. After going inside, they first basically ignored us for half an hour (keep in mind we had two small kids with us and there was nobody else waiting). All police officers were of foreign descent, either Arabs or from African countries. Why I mention this? Well: They talked in Arabic or some African language with each other, which was quite weird for a police station.
Then, an officer came and of course...he didn't speak English. Thank god my wife speaks French fluently, I only understand it well and speak a few words. We explained our situation, the officer wrote everything down, no emotion, no smile for the kids, nothing. We then waited another two hours(!) for the officer to finish the report (required for the German insurance). During this time, we saw several police officers running around with many boxes of fresh pizza but do you think someone offered even a glass water to the kids?! Nope.
After the report was finished, I asked if I can leave my car overnight at the police station because the lock was not working. The officer said no. The parking lot of the (fenced) police station had around 20 or more free lots in front of the main building but they said it is not possible. Makes sense. There was another car with German plates parked there and I asked about that car and they said this car was confiscated.
I begged the officer, explained the situation with the small kids and the hotel but he couldn't care less.
A friend of a friend (I made some calls) working at the German Paris embassy at that time offered to bring the car to the embassy and park it there. The embassy was over an hour (one-way) away from Disneyland Paris, so not really an option. Our experience with French police wasn't new for him. Intervening was no option, "they just don't care".
I was so pissed at French police, so I decided to leave for Germany. We drove back to the hotel, packed our luggage and at around 10 pm, we were on our way back to Germany. It was November and pretty cold, I just wanted to go home. Wife was very angry as well, kids were sad.
In my frustration about French police, I was driving pretty fast that night. Safe (for me) but fast.
During that night driving back home to Germany, I think I triggered all available stationary radar traps in France on the way to the German border. I'm not kidding, I think I saw at least a dozen of flashes. I just didn't care. I was sure I will never return back to France, the experience with the French police was worst police experience I ever had (and I had to deal with real weirdos in various police forces ).
It took me around 10 hours to drive from my hometown to Paris for slightly over 800 km. On our way back, it took me 7 hours to get back home.
I never received a ticket or anything from France but I also knew that it would be too risky to go back in the same car.
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