If you’ve ever had a passenger tell you to slow down and you actually listened, congratulations. You’re already doing better than this guy.

Just before 3 a.m. on a Tuesday in Tampa, Florida Highway Patrol troopers spotted a white Nissan rolling eastbound on Interstate 4 at a cool 85 mph in a 55 mph zone. The driver, 18-year-old Steven J. Lazaro-Ocampo, apparently mistook a Florida highway for a personal racetrack. A sergeant confirmed the speed on radar and pulled out to stop the vehicle, which is when things got a lot more interesting and a lot more stupid.

Rather than pulling over like a normal human being, Lazaro-Ocampo cut off another car, exited at Orient Road, and bolted once the sergeant lit up his emergency lights and sirens. What followed was a textbook “how not to drive” tutorial: running red lights, hopping back onto I-4, and eventually merging south onto I-75, all while five passengers sat in the car wondering what life choices led them to this moment.

The Passengers Knew What Time It Was

Here is where the story takes a genuinely wild turn. As the trooper closed in and prepared a PIT maneuver, multiple hands started waving out of the passenger windows. Not in a “we’re having fun” kind of way. In a “please, we are begging you, stop this car” kind of way.

According to FHP, all five passengers were pleading with Lazaro-Ocampo to pull over and let them out. He refused. Eventually, he did stop, but only after veering onto the right shoulder and rolling into the grass. Then he jumped out and ran. Into the bushes. Along the side of I-75. At 3 a.m.

Troopers found him shortly after, because shrubbery is not actually a great hiding spot from law enforcement.

The Charges Piled Up Fast

Lazaro-Ocampo now faces aggravated fleeing to elude, false imprisonment, possession of a controlled substance without a prescription, and resisting without violence. He also had an active robbery warrant out of Polk County and, perhaps unsurprisingly, had fled from troopers in that same county just months earlier in January. No vehicles were damaged and no one was injured, which, given the circumstances, is nothing short of miraculous.

The five passengers cooperated fully with troopers. Their Yelp review of the ride has not been published, but one can imagine it would not be five stars.