Sean Connery's Speeding Ticket
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Doctor Shatterhand
, Dec 29 2009 07:33 PM
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 07:33 PM
While doing some research in an archive of the Washington Post newspaper, I came across this small incident involving Sean Connery, months after his release of You Only Live Twice. The article is dated October 26, 1967.
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 07:35 PM
LOL
very cool finding!
very cool finding!
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 08:11 PM
Shame no photo exists of this guy.
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 08:15 PM
How extraordinary.
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 08:22 PM
Funny little tidbit; surprised it isn't better known, though...
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 08:36 PM
Wow, incredible story and funny. 
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 10:26 PM
It might be enough to humble one...
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 10:29 PM
Its almost like it was ment to happen
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 10:30 PM
As if he was called James Bond, too much of a coincidence.
Cool article though.
Cool article though.
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 11:14 PM
Well it was known at the time (I had it down as 1969) in the UK - my Daily Express clipping (sorry about the colours, but it has been glued, taped and transferred a number of times into various scrap books over the years).
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 11:43 PM
This is too funny! Thanks for sharing, guys.
Thanks for sharing, guys.
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Posted 29 December 2009 - 11:49 PM
Ditto what everyone else said already.
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Posted 30 December 2009 - 03:46 AM
Certainly makes for an amusing read.
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Posted 30 December 2009 - 07:29 AM
Sean Connery is hooning up the road and is pulled over by James Bond. Now that is one hilariously massive coincidence.
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Posted 30 December 2009 - 10:46 PM
It says he was pestered by film people and publicity people, so why wasn't this more well known?
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Posted 31 December 2009 - 12:29 AM
It says he was pestered by film people and publicity people, so why wasn't this more well known?
As I mentioned above, it probably was at the time, depends on your age as to whether you remember it. When the first post was made, I new that I had a larger press cutting about it, remembering it from over 40 years ago. I think the answer is, that you need to be an old f art like me (who collected press cuttings at the time) who needs his memory nudging occasionally.