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Police Don't Like It When You Drive 88 MPH in Your DeLorean

A 55-year-old man was arrested for taking his gull-winged whip up to time-travel speeds last weekend.

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Last weekend, police arrested a 55-year-old man after they clocked him driving 88 MPH in his DeLorean outside of London, the Guardian reports.

Nigel Mills copped the iconic time-traveling whip of Back to the Future fame for £22,000 [$29,000], presumably in some midlife crisis-induced attempt to turn the clock back on his life. Unfortunately, the used car didn't come with a flux capacitor, and when he brought it up to 88 MPH on a public road last Sunday, all he wound up with was trouble from the cops.

"I wasn't trying to time travel," he told the Guardian. "It was at 11 AM on Sunday and the road was completely clear," which sounds exactly like the kind of thing someone trying to time travel would say.

Mills admits that he doesn't drive the car very often and really only took it out for a bit of a "run around" before he was pulled over and arrested. Luckily for him, his case was thrown out when the cops who arrested him didn't even bother to show up to court, so Mills can get back to work installing a Mr. Fusion or whatever.

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