A Ferrari driver tried several arguments after an officer told him he had been clocked well above the speed limit.
Then he played the birthday card.
The clip now circulating on Facebook is not a new traffic stop. The encounter happened in Vaughan, Ontario, in October 2024, and York Regional Police released the footage publicly in August 2025.
That has not stopped the exchange — particularly the driver’s increasingly desperate pleas to the officer — from getting another run online.
Birthday Detour
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York Regional Police said the Ferrari was clocked at 130 km/h in a 70 km/h zone on Highway 27.
The video begins after the stop, with the officer asking whether the driver knows why he was pulled over.
The driver mentions that he is headed to his birthday party and says he has not driven the Ferrari in a while.
When the officer tells him the recorded speed was 130 km/h, the driver disputes it and asks how the officer could have measured his speed.
The officer tells him the cruiser has radar and then shows him the reading.
“That’s me?” the driver asks.
“That’s you,” the officer replies.
No Birthday Pass
Once the driver realizes what comes next, the conversation changes quickly.
He repeatedly asks the officer for a break, bringing up his birthday again and asking whether he can simply receive a ticket.
The officer tells him the matter is stunt driving.
That distinction carried immediate consequences. Under Ontario law, driving at least 40 km/h above the limit on a road where the posted limit is below 80 km/h falls within the province’s stunt-driving rules.
Those rules call for an immediate 30-day driver’s licence suspension and a 14-day vehicle impoundment at the roadside.
The Ferrari was loaded onto a tow truck.
Call The Parents
That left the driver needing another way to his birthday celebration.
“I’m going to have my mother and father come pick me up,” he tells the officer in the video.
Moments later, with the Ferrari being taken away, he can be heard making the call.
York Regional Police leaned into the birthday theme when it originally released the footage, asking whether the driver’s parents still let him have cake and presents.
The agency’s message underneath the joke was more straightforward: a birthday did not provide an exception to the stunt-driving rules.
The driver was charged with stunt driving. A charge is an allegation and does not establish guilt.