Zillionaires getting profiled???

Ferrari driver offers $10,000 for assistant chief to take lie detector test.

The disparities in the number of motorists stopped by police based on race, or racial profiling as it’s called, is a controversial subject.

If you’re an inner-city kid from a low income family you may feel, rightly or wrongly, that the way you look, the color of your skin or the neighborhood you live was the only reason you were stopped and questioned by the cops. But there’s an even more controversial form of profiling getting some media attention recently: Aspen, Colorado police are profiling Ferrari owners.

According to at least one part-time Aspen resident, the Aspen PD has it in for those driving the legendary Italian sports cars. They charge that the police are discriminating against that type of car owner and pulling them over more compared to the average motorist says Marc Ostrofsky. He’s a multi-millionaire Internet entrepreneur. He whined to reporters recently after appearing in Aspen municipal court for a speeding ticket.

“I’ve asked other Ferrari owners in this town,” Ostrofsky said when asked about his contention.

Assistant Police Chief Bill Linn pulled over Ostrofsky, 51, around 5:30 p.m. last August. Ostrofsky says he was cited for going 34 a 25-mph zone in his 2010 red Ferrari, though Ostrofsky said Linn told him that he had actually been going 49.

“Then why write a ticket for 34?” Ostrofsky asked.

He was trying to throw you a break dumbass – that’s why.

Aspen Police Chief Richard Pryor told reporters his officers routinely write the citation for less than what the actual speed was, so as to make it less onerous in terms of fines.

Ostrofsky denies speeding at all, and he told Judge Brooke Peterson of municipal court that he would put up $10,000 to have Linn take a lie-detector test. That’s cute. But the judge wasn’t amused.

“That’s not going to happen,” Peterson said. “It’s not how my system works.”

“I’m a citizen of this town, and I don’t like how this is being handled,” Ostrofsky said. “It’s not you, it’s the system.”

Sometimes you really have to marvel at the arrogance of people unfamiliar with the criminal justice system.

Ostrofsky wound up pleading no-contest because the court could not accommodate his personal schedu
e. He will now suffer the ultimate humiliation of having to take a safe driving course.
But he’s not giving up the fight. Ostrofsky knows that the real victims of police profiling are Ferrari owning million and billionaires.

He’s consulted with an attorney about exacting some kind of revenge. The lawyer advised him to get all the other Ferrari owners in Aspen — he estimated there are six or so — to come to court and speak about “how they’re targeted.”

Ostrofsky said that was too much work.

Like many other myth fans, Ostrofsky seems to believe cops target red sports cars specifically. ‘Online police statistics’ show that “a red sports car is the No. 1 car that cops go after,” he said. “And so when you drive a red sports car in this town and you live here, you drive very slowly.”

According to snopes.com, a website that explores urban myths, that “premise is flawed as it does not appear that red cars get cited for speeding more often than they statistically should.”

The truth is that the rich and powerful just can’t stomach the idea that, at least on the roads, they’re just like everyone else.