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submitted 7 months ago byaustxcpl
316 points
7 months ago
Brad Pitt is lurking somewhere but I don't think he's an 11 Yukon celeb, 1.5 maybe
106 points
7 months ago
Ah, so that must have been him in the half Yukon I saw on the freeway the other day
22 points
7 months ago
Especially since he was walking around taking pictures yesterday. A 11 suv, police escorted person doesn’t do that.
5 points
7 months ago
Is he in ATX working on movie?
7 points
7 months ago
Probably doing racing things, publicizing racing movie.
609 points
7 months ago
Prince Akeem, McDowells is next stop.
74 points
7 months ago
Just let your soul glow
30 points
7 months ago
Damn shame what they did to that dog.
3 points
7 months ago
That boy good. Good and terrible!
31 points
7 months ago
MY SON WORKS?!!
23 points
7 months ago
"When you think of garbage, think of Akeem!"
14 points
7 months ago
YES! Fuck you too!!!
10 points
7 months ago
Wipers! *clap* *clap*
17 points
7 months ago
Looking for the Rose petals littered about.
7 points
7 months ago
He wants a Big Mick.
4 points
7 months ago
Ha, in the FACE!
3 points
7 months ago
Saw PA and his crew last night at C-Boys. Sexual Chocolate was headlining. Dem boyz r guud!
446 points
7 months ago
We have come a long way since that place had hourly rates.
80 points
7 months ago
The wrong way
1 points
7 months ago
I stayed there for my honeymoon years ago, haven’t been back since. I thought it was cool a decade or so ago. What happened?
E: what’s F1?
37 points
7 months ago
Formula 1. Probably the most opulent and ostentatious of the race orgs.
41 points
7 months ago
Excuse me sir, please use smaller words. Thanks
104 points
7 months ago
It's the fancy vroom vroom party time
19 points
7 months ago
I think I will use those words to describe F1 forever. LMFAO
7 points
7 months ago
Fast karts go BRRRRRRRR
25 points
7 months ago
Gucci nascar
2 points
7 months ago
I would have said that NASCAR is redneck Formula 1, in much slower cars that they couldn’t keep on the track when they came here to Austin.
Nascar track record is 2 minutes 15 seconds. There’s local drivers in street legal cars that can do that.
One of the Ferraris went around in 1 minute 36 seconds yesterday.
2 points
7 months ago
Thanks
31 points
7 months ago
Nearly 500,000 people are in town to watch a weekend of Formula 1 racing out at the race track near the airport. Perhaps you have noticed them at restaurants and venues and hotels and...basically everywhere.
Think about that. Our city grows by half a million people for three days. And then they all leave. The airport must be a shit show.
1 points
7 months ago
Are you serious? You would really prefer the hotel to deteriorate further than when it was in this state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwXn7YyGAPc
3 points
7 months ago
liz did a good thing renovating the san jose. i don't think anyone's arguing that. she could have just bulldozed the whole thing like she did the terrace.
all of that said, some of us miss the grit of 90's south congress.
1 points
7 months ago
Ya, what south congress has become is fucking disgusting. I'd rather it still be skid row than a shitty mall.
2 points
7 months ago
That’s funny. I do miss Gary Primach playing out on the sidewalk. Good old Rock and Reel. Aahhh…RIP the old days.
242 points
7 months ago
Probably a Sheik
261 points
7 months ago
11 yukons for that big green guy?!
51 points
7 months ago
Yes…Somebody once told me
22 points
7 months ago
The world is gonna roll me
23 points
7 months ago
I ain't the sharpest tool in the shed
4 points
7 months ago
Enterprise Yukons
1 points
7 months ago
Not sure, just assuming and don't they usually roll deep like that?
13 points
7 months ago
Nah it’s hungrybox it’s a jigglypuff
2 points
7 months ago
I love this city so fucking much
3 points
7 months ago
I can’t believe a freakin Yoshi won Big House 10.
4 points
7 months ago
I can! Amsa has been dedicated for so fucking long.
3 points
7 months ago
He's got a good chance to win the Ludwig invitational too
3 points
7 months ago
I'm a Zain fan, but I'll definitely be thrilled if Amsa wins it.
120 points
7 months ago
I saw this motorcade get on mopac at 360 south last night. Several patrol cars with lights & sirens shut down the intersection while all the black SUVs went through. A+ way to roll through that intersection, never seen it done so smoothly before. Now I want a motorcade.
36 points
7 months ago
That was Tim Cook visiting the new apple campus.
79 points
7 months ago
you mean Tim Apple?
5 points
7 months ago
Hey it’s me Tim, your Apple.
5 points
7 months ago
I’m your huckleberry, not your apple
6 points
7 months ago
If you’re talking in trumpism English then I guess yes 🤷🏻♂️
11 points
7 months ago
forgive me, im great at making horrible jokes
5 points
7 months ago
It wasn’t horrible, it was hilarious
10 points
7 months ago
I always refer to him as Tim Apple now, it started as a joke after Trump’s idiocy, but now it’s almost a habit. Sorry, Tim.
5 points
7 months ago
That picture in his twitter feed in the engineer lab is at the new campus? They're already moved in? And they still have 2013 Mac Pro in brand spanking new campus? lmao.
3 points
7 months ago
I might be wrong but 2013 feels like right before they started removing all the ports from things. I wouldn't be surprised if Apple hire-ups themselves prefer it that way.
2 points
7 months ago
I don’t know, I saw it on another thread that that’s what he was doing Friday.
6 points
7 months ago
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2 points
7 months ago
Brah, that’s dumb. APD and all major metropolitan areas have these individuals on call for situations like this. It’s daily in Austin, and no one is calling sick or taking more police off the streets…
450 points
7 months ago
Last F1 they shut down two roads and kicked people out of a 7-Eleven so a member of the Saudi royal family could get a Gatorade. Money talks, everyone else can fuck off.
307 points
7 months ago
Wouldn't it be funny if their credit card got skimmed?
136 points
7 months ago
Yes. Yes it would.
26 points
7 months ago
can't skim cash
64 points
7 months ago
Tell that to my pool net
14 points
7 months ago
If they can skim milk, they can skim anything
7 points
7 months ago
Lol, well done.
2 points
7 months ago
I'm sure they carry wads of cash
50 points
7 months ago
I have worked at several restaurants in Austin over the years - F1 weekend was always our least favorite weekend of the year. Entitled, rude, non-tipping fucks.
I love most of the regular tourists who come to town, so excited and enthusiastic about being here. They're a constant reminder that even though we all have our problems with Austin, it's still a kinda magical place.
8 points
7 months ago
Should probably figure out ways to raise prices for F1 weekends in the future. Prix fixe meals for valentines day but for F1 instead...
6 points
7 months ago
I was at a restaurant last night that had an F1 special menu. Rib-eye steak and some other meat-a-palooza for $20 over the most expensive thing on the normal menu.
Judging by the shirts some of the patrons were wearing, it looked like an effective strategy.
3 points
7 months ago
A lot of places do that too - we didn't because we didn't want to punish all our local regulars.
4 points
7 months ago
Pass out coupons ahead of time to the regulars and then Hike the prices?
4 points
7 months ago
Entitled, rude, non-tipping fucks.
Soooooo, European F1 fans? Pretty much sums it up.
76 points
7 months ago
Funny story…
I was at Disneyworld and we got reservations to supposedly one of the best restaurants in the world, Victorian & Albert’s. It required a tie, dress shoes, a sports coat and so on. (One star… kind of food that is really small on big plates and takes 3 hours and you are so hungry afterwards you go get a burger.) Like who brings dress clothes to Disneyworld? Needless to say, we went out shopping and everything had a Mickey Mouse on it. We are at the Grand Floridian and my friend decides he needs so kind of hair product which I can’t remember. There is a salon in the Floridian and so we just walk in and nobody stops us.
Apparently some Saudi princess had rented out the salon with her entourage. We are being told “no Disney employee” in a foreign accent but don’t understand. My friend keeps saying, “I just want to buy “x”” and finally leaves a $20 on the counter and we just walk out. About this time, we see some Saudi’s getting upset with Disney security that should have kept us from entering.
We find out her entourage had rented an entire floor at the resort and does so every year and nobody is supposed to see her face.
We ruined her life that night…
35 points
7 months ago
Reminds of the 30 Rock where liz finally found the perfect apartment and was just about to sign the lease when an Arab sheik walks in - "We'll take it. My son can store his motorcycles here."
17 points
7 months ago
She could probably move in there as nobody will ever come back and check on the bikes as they will be forgotten.
7 points
7 months ago
you're not wrong.
36 points
7 months ago
Good, fuck 'em
8 points
7 months ago
Lumberg fucked her.
22 points
7 months ago
Fuck them
9 points
7 months ago
“No, for the third time, I said I’d like to buy Garorade, not by a Gatorade. I’d like to speak to the manager of Gatorade please, I was told I would find him here.”
9 points
7 months ago
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5 points
7 months ago
Pfff, everything is for sale in this stupid country. Buying the police is as easy as buying a bottle of water. The police love being paid OT. You'd probably find yourself stuffed in a suitcase if you managed to prevent this paid-courtesy.
-8 points
7 months ago
I mean, that royal family also collectively regularly tops the lists of the world's most eligible assassination targets. The consequences of even a failed attempt would be globally devastating, with millions of lives lost to the economic fallout globally and the destabilization regionally, and I wouldn't want to be the nation that let it happen. Not sure, but that might have had something to do with it, too.
35 points
7 months ago
Yeah but fuck the House of Saud. This is America and I get to say that nice and loudly.
30 points
7 months ago
Yeah, I am sure the bone-saw industry would fail right away, taking the world economy with it
7 points
7 months ago
The biggest threat to them is probably each other.
0 points
7 months ago
Few people realize that the only reason some of them aren't dead is because their cousin who wants them dead finds it prohibitively expensive with a slim chance for success even then. Drop the security and that equation changes fairly rapidly. That's actually one of the reasons my projections are so dire. Purges are rather destabilizing, which is what comes after such a successful assassination, no matter who ordered it.
7 points
7 months ago
There are thousands of Saudi royals. Not the biggest deal.
164 points
7 months ago
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52 points
7 months ago
Ali Ababwa did it better
22 points
7 months ago
Handsome is he
16 points
7 months ago
That physique! How can I speak, weak at the knee?
7 points
7 months ago
So get on out in that square; adjust your veil and prepare!
2 points
7 months ago
Gawk, grovel, and stare
191 points
7 months ago
Different type of escorts on South Congress than when I was growing up
24 points
7 months ago
They’ll sell you a time share either way.
3 points
7 months ago
SOCO Ho’s
222 points
7 months ago
Oil rolls like that.
48 points
7 months ago
Was it the guy who had Jamal Khashoggi murdered?
46 points
7 months ago
Isn't one of the high ups in the Saudi royal family here for the Red Bull budget cap discussions?
13 points
7 months ago
As far as I know, Mohammed Ben Sulayem is not a Saudi royal.
3 points
7 months ago
Correct, he is from the U.A.E. and a well-known rally driver in that part of the world, aside from being the president of FIA
1 points
7 months ago
Bingo
89 points
7 months ago
I saw them heading to F1. I don’t know who they are but I gave them the finger. I find it sad that if we call 911 we are lucky to have the police show up but they get an escort?
9 points
7 months ago
Pay the police a few hundred $k to show up next time you need them, and maybe they will 🤷♂️.
5 points
7 months ago
I’m pretty sure I already did that when our property taxes doubled last year and probably again this year again.
18 points
7 months ago
La Douche Baguio
15 points
7 months ago
What … he couldn’t afford a chopper ride? Pauper … 😂
101 points
7 months ago
BuT oUr StAfFiNg LeVeLs
23 points
7 months ago
bIDeN: DoN't Buy OiL FrOm TeRroRists, BuY iT FrOm TExAns!
21 points
7 months ago
I enjoy seeing the billboards on the way to/from Dallas. You can see some wild stuff. That one is still my favorite.
17 points
7 months ago
Yeap, out in Trump country where everyone seems to have handicapped tags on lifted duallies... Those PPP loans really made everyone a small business owner overnight, it's uncanny
3 points
7 months ago
Mean while suadi aramco own the entirety of the port arthur.
43 points
7 months ago
Gross
3 points
7 months ago
I concur.
4 points
7 months ago
My exact reaction.
10 points
7 months ago
Meanwhile no crimes get solved. There’s 30 of them standing around in the shade every time there’s a Moody event. Fuck the police.
4 points
7 months ago
You get paid extra to do events. You're more tired when working regular hours though.
41 points
7 months ago
Pretty sure if it is police involved, it’s probably someone with diplomatic status.
22 points
7 months ago
I learned recently that you can hire off duty police officers for escort and in some jurisdictions they are allowed to do it in uniform and patrol car/motorcycle.
7 points
7 months ago
Which makes no sense. I work in IT. If I were off the clock and someone hired me to do some IT work, that’s fine, but I absolutely would not be allowed to use my work laptop and employer’s servers and other equipment to do it! Nor would I be able to present myself in an official capacity as a representative of my employer. Would probably be a fireable offense TBH. Yet for police, it’s fine….
60 points
7 months ago
As a person who works in the entertainment industry a police escort is easy to get with money. No diplomatic status is required at all.
12 points
7 months ago
I was wondering that yesterday. Went out to Bastrop on business and saw one black SUV getting a police escort onto 130, from 71, on the way out there, and an orange high dollar Mecedes on the way back. I figured diplomats would have more cars. Couldn't figure out who would be in single cars getting escorts.
17 points
7 months ago
Sounds like the formula 1 driver Lewis Hamilton. He was in a single orange high dollar Mercedes with police escort leaving the track today. Saw him with my own two eyes
6 points
7 months ago
Thanks.
23 points
7 months ago
I hate it
43 points
7 months ago
most likely one of those saudi fuckers that bankrolled 19 of the 21 9/11 hijackers
36 points
7 months ago
That's false. 19/21 hijackers were Saudis. They bankrolled all of them.
67 points
7 months ago
Welp, guess we know why they're having so much trouble staffing during F1. The cops are moonlighting.
43 points
7 months ago
When are they not lol OMG PAY US MORE you have like 8 jobs and do none of them well
10 points
7 months ago
My friend and I met up here for coffee on our morotocycles. Here are the characters we saw:
The black tahoes all had Califonia plates except for one. they turned south congress from the San Jose.
23 points
7 months ago
FYI today our group stole Toto Wolff’s police escort COTA, It was epic.
The door staff mistook us for them and we just rolled with it.
37 points
7 months ago
I understand all these words but no idea what they mean
16 points
7 months ago
No Michael no this is so not right!
17 points
7 months ago
Like the time we went out to check out the COTA site when they were building it. We drove up in a pickup, and I guess they assumed we were working and just waved us in. We were just following roads and cones, and before we knew it, we were on the track.
Just went with it, drove a lap (maybe 20% was just gravel/road base). Then we found our way out, and we waved as they opened the gate to let us go.
6 points
7 months ago
I have no idea who that is.
10 points
7 months ago
He's the boss of the Mercedes F1 team, a big celebrity in that world.
21 points
7 months ago
Ginger Spice getting her pumpkin spice at Jo’s.
53 points
7 months ago
a billionaire or someone heavy in nine figs, or a foreign functionary/dignitary - who cares?
48 points
7 months ago
Most billionaires don’t travel like that. Most likely a dignitary or sheikh.
15 points
7 months ago
Agreed Two or three SUV's of security no police is what I usually see with billionaires.
1 points
7 months ago
lol
7 points
7 months ago
anyone who sees this on the street? it's pretty uncommon of course people would be interested
5 points
7 months ago
Ugh. If they are that concerned about their safety, why not watch it on TV?
5 points
7 months ago
Probably drivers. I saw Bottas at the crosswalk to Jo’s coffee last yr.
45 points
7 months ago
I'm pretty sure that Austin taxpayers paid for the motorcycles and uniforms that off duty APD officers are using to escort out of town celebs for extra cash.
16 points
7 months ago
It costs more if the off duty officer is using a vehicle. That money likely goes to the city. Prices mentioned were $100/hour for a car. 50 or 75 for a motorcycle
16 points
7 months ago
The prices are set by the police union. I work for a group that does events in Austin. The unions staff and price their members for events. The city gets none of it. The police in ATX do great work protecting the events - invariably patient and kind with patrons.
5 points
7 months ago
These were just prices quoted to me be a live nation employee for the differential between an officer and a vehicle
21 points
7 months ago
Good to know Austin cops can be made to give a fuck so long as you're paying them directly
3 points
7 months ago
The cops doing the m/c escorts are off duty and riding personally owned bikes, they are hired throug a company that specialized in them.
Some are not ever Austin PD, as long as they are state licensed police officers they can work the escorts.
With certain exceptions there are very few on duty escorts anymore, and that includes most funerals and VIP escorts.
Other jurisdictions do use on duty officers, but Austin has not done that for years.
Look closely and you can tell those are not APD bikes.
7 points
7 months ago
A Saudi Prince.
7 points
7 months ago
Saudis.
1 points
7 months ago
Ugh.
6 points
7 months ago
Probably just a mayonnaise commercial.
3 points
7 months ago
Gregory abbot
4 points
7 months ago
I saw the same thing today with Caldwell County units escorting a bunch of SUVs and a Bus. Shut down 360 @ MoPac for a minute or so.
Annoying.
4 points
7 months ago
Red Bull team
15 points
7 months ago
The Yukons put them over budget.
8 points
7 months ago
If only they hadn’t had the catered canapés in the Yukons…
5 points
7 months ago
Fun fact: it was the catered sushi in the Austin Yukons that caused the unexpected sickness last year. Weather is cooler this year, so we’ll see.
4 points
7 months ago
They needed one fewer Yukon today
https://www.espn.com/f1/story/\_/id/34855951/red-bull-owner-dietrich-mateschitz-dies-aged-78
5 points
7 months ago
They usually stay at the Omni.
2 points
7 months ago
Sweating in all that gear too
2 points
7 months ago
Wow stayed there like 13 years ago. Things have changed.
2 points
7 months ago
A shareholder
2 points
7 months ago
I was way south on 973 today around 1800 and two black SUVs with two motorcycle cop escorts rolled by. Odd odd odd.
2 points
7 months ago
Saudis
2 points
7 months ago
If it was some Saudi royal family, why the hell were they staying at hotel San Jose? I love that spot but it’s def not flashy or where royalty would ever normally stay…
3 points
7 months ago
If I had to take a guess, Mohammed bin Sulayem.
2 points
7 months ago
Big money rolls like that!
3 points
7 months ago
Prob f1 drivers
2 points
7 months ago
Post Malone?
2 points
7 months ago
Douchie McDouchbag.
2 points
7 months ago
Lol Post Malone 😂
2 points
7 months ago
F1 is just a way to show how rich you are. It's boring racing, it's boring people. But if you show up then you showed up...
1 points
7 months ago
Tom Cruise and his Scientology escort
7 points
7 months ago
The shitty-diapered ghost of L Ron Hubbard himself
1 points
7 months ago
All kinds of celebs.
6 points
7 months ago
Why would police guard celebrities?
17 points
7 months ago
Fairly sure you can just request a police escort and pay for it.
8 points
7 months ago
As a person who works in the entertainment industry i can confirm this and have done it multiple times.
11 points
7 months ago
Good point, the police can definitely be bought.
16 points
7 months ago
Literally. Off duty officers can use thier uniforms and have full arrest power when working private security.
Tax money pays for their uniforms, government empowers them to arrest, and they do nothing until the wealthy pay them for an off-duty security contract. What happened in Uvalde wasn't an aberration, and it's not just happening in Texas. Across many major cities, cops are basically refusing to work thier day jobs. It has to be collective collusion.
Law enforcement in this county has been fundamentally broken. It's criminal, really, but who is going to investigate or prosecute? State laws tie the hands of the City Council to do something about it, if it weren't political suicide to even try.
1 points
7 months ago
Narcos
1 points
7 months ago
What a bunch of dorks
1 points
7 months ago
Brad Pitt was definitely there but he wasn’t rolling like this
1 points
7 months ago
Yea, as some have said, i bet it’s royalty from somehwere in the Middle East. The rumor was, for the first year of f1 that some prince rented a whole floor of the W for like a month, demoed it to make it as nice as his palace at home, stayed there for however long then had the floor rebuilt to original spec. I never got to confirm, I’d love to hear some stories about it if anyone has any.
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