Justin Bieber was apparently involved in a 100mph chase in LA as he tried to get away from paparazzi.
The teenage heart-throb was given a speeding ticket by police at about 10.45am yesterday but insisted he was being chased by five or six other cars.
The claim of a chase is backed by a local councillor called Dennis Zine, who called authorities after seeing Bieber's distinctive chrome Fisker Karma being chased.
Mr Zine, who was a Los Angeles police officer for 33 years, reckons that the chase exceeded 100mph as paparazzi engaged in wild manoeuvres to keep up with Bieber, including driving on the hard shoulder and cutting up other vehicles.
Mr Zine said he saw Bieber's car drive up behind him and zoom around him, weaving wildly in and out of traffic while the other cars gave chase.
Bieber was breaking the law by driving recklessly and speeding and the paparazzi were breaking the la w by hounding him, he claimed.
"This was very bizarre, very outrageous and showed a total disregard for life and property," Mr Zine said.
Zine, a witness to countless crashes and fatalities during his police career, said he was surprised no-one crashed.
"The way (Bieber) was driving was totally reckless, I would have arrested him if I had pulled him over," he said. "I wouldn't have given him a ticket and let him go."
Yesterday's incident is not the only conflict between the floppy-haired singer and the paparazzi.
In May, a photographer called authorities, complaining he was roughed up by the star in The Commons at Calabasas shopping centre.
Authorities said the scuffle happened when a photographer tried to take photos of Bieber and his girlfriend Selena Gomez.
Last April Bieber called off a meeting with the Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, saying he had cancelled partly because he did not want to face the country's notoriously aggressive paparazzi.
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