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Daredevil Ties Wakeboard To Ferrari And Films Stunt; Cops Take Notice

Daredevil Ties Wakeboard To Ferrari And Films Stunt; Cops Take Notice
Carla Herreria Russo
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Senior Editor, HuffPost

If you ever happen to have both a Ferrari and a wakeboard sitting around, we beg you to not try this at home.

While holding a rope tied to the spoiler of a Ferrari F50, Jorge Gill -- a 19-year-old professional wakeboarder from London -- was towed down a rural roadside waterway at top speeds reported at 84 mph, according to the Lincolnshire Echo, a local paper for the county where the stunt took place.

Gill's ride ends when he appears to hit a muddy bump, causing him to skid across the shallow water. A camera attached to his person captures the sound of him giggling underwater, which makes the wipeout seem a little less painful.

The stunt, filmed by Tax the Rich, a YouTube channel that produces "supercar footage in the most unlikely manner," caught the attention of the Lincolnshire police in England, where the filming took place. The video, according to a police spokesperson, is currently being investigated by a traffic sergeant. "This is not something we can look at and make an immediate decision," the spokesperson told the Echo.

With everything that could've gone wrong, we're glad to see that the world champion wakeboarder walked away from the high-speed stunt relatively unscathed. He even posted this awesome photo to his Instagram:

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H/T Daily Mail

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The Ferrari was built in 2001 by Livio De Marchi, an artist living in the canal-covered city of Venice Italy.
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"[De Marchi] always wanted a Ferrari and this was the only way he could have one and still get around Venice," Terry Brennan, curator of the San Diego Air & Space Museum, told The Huffington Post.
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The boat has been owned by Ripley's Believe It Or Not! since 2009, but has been housed at the Museum for nearly two years as part of a traveling exhibition.
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But what fun is a Ferrari boat that is just dry docked? Not much.Ripley's decided to get it in the water for the first time since Carnaval was held in Venice in 2002 as part of the San Diego Bayfair, held this past weekend.
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Getting the boat ready after 12 years out of the briny blue wasn't easy, according to Brennan.
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"It had dried up quite a bit over the period of time it was out of the water," he said. "We thought we'd be able to season the hull like you would any wooden boat, but we found some cracks that were as much as half-an-inch wide. We had to recaulk a lot of the bottom.."
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The maiden voyage took place early Saturday morning with HuffPost Weird News staff writer David Moye as the first passenger. Ripley's Vice President Patrick Hartle admitted earlier he wasn't sure how that ride would be."I hope it goes better than the 3-hour tour on 'Gilligan's Isle,'" he said.
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Here's the bottom line: There are few things cooler than getting into a boat that looks like a sportscar and there are few things slower."Yeah, it doesn't match the performance of a real Ferrari," Hartle admitted.
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