---
title: "Police Bust Son Trying to Pull a Ferris Bueller With His Dad’s Ferrari California"
description: "Ferris would've talked his way out of that one."
date: "2017-07-26"
modified: "2017-07-26"
authors:
  - name: "Kyle Cheromcha"
    job_title: "Editor-in-Chief"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/kyle-cheromcha"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/12900/police-bust-son-trying-to-pull-a-ferris-bueller-with-his-dads-ferrari-california"
categories:
  - "Ferrari News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
tags:
  - "California"
  - "Ferrari"
  - "insurance"
  - "london"
  - "police"
---

# Police Bust Son Trying to Pull a Ferris Bueller With His Dad’s Ferrari California

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A 28-year-old is almost certainly in a world of trouble with his parents this week, after police in London caught him taking his father's prized [Ferrari California](<https://www.thedrive.com/new-cars/6240/the-2016-ferrari-california-t-is-the-rodney-dangerfield-of-ferraris>) out for a joyride while his parents were out of the country on vacation.

[According to *The Telegraph*,](<https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/26/real-life-ferris-buellers-day-son-borrowed-fathers-ferrari-sees/>) Police in the Bromley neighborhood of London spotted the man acting out his own version of *Ferris Bueller's Day Off* early Tuesday afternoon. When officers stopped to question him, he admitted that he had "borrowed" the six-figure car from his vacationing father. It should go without saying that the real Ferris Bueller would have come up with a smoother lie than that.

That itself isn't necessarily a crime, though his father might feel otherwise. No, the real issue is that when the officers checked the paperwork, they realized his father had been smart enough to leave his son off the Ferrari's insurance policy—meaning he couldn't legally drive the car. Police ticketed him for driving without insurance and seized the California, posing with it at the impound lot in a taunting tweet.

And even though the poor dad's vacation is probably ruined, there is a silver lining: Unlike the [1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder](<https://www.thedrive.com/vintage/3549/15-things-you-didnt-know-about-the-1961-ferrari-250gt-from-ferris-buellers-day-off>) that Ferris, his girlfriend Sloane, and his best friendCameron purloined for their epic day off, at least his Ferrari California's not sitting at the bottom of a ravine right now.

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## Author
Overseeing an expert staff of writers and editors from his lair in Los Angeles, Kyle shapes The Drive’s singular approach to covering the automotive industry and car culture. He’s been with the site as a writer since 2017, taking over as editor in 2019. On a daily basis, Kyle is responsible for directing The Drive's editorial news and car review content strategies, setting special coverage priorities, managing complex reporting projects, and ensuring what you read on the page meets our high internal standards for quality and trustworthiness. He is also the executive producer of The Drive's YouTube channel, which was relaunched in February 2024 to great acclaim and has accumulated over 14M new views in its first year back on the scene. He hosts a biweekly series on the channel where he breaks down fascinating and complicated stories from the automotive world.

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