Random Ridiculously Stupid Plot Holes in Fast and Furious Movies (17 items)

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  (#13) How Do You Smuggle 20,000 Gallons of Gas Off an Island?

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  It’s fairly obvious Fast & Furious was a shot of adrenaline straight to the heart of the franchise. It was the perfect melting pot of old faces and new, and literally jumped straight into the action with a high-speed fuel tanker heist in the opening scene. Dom and his crew are so quick on the draw, stealing tankers of gasoline, they never stopped to ask, “what are we going to do with it?” They're in the Dominican Republic, which together with Haiti makes up an island nearly nine times smaller than Texas. Word probably gets around fast about a heist like this. 

  The same night partygoers pump stolen gas directly from the tankers to their trademarked cars, Han tells Dom the cops are hot on their tails. So how do you transport, sell, or hide 20,000 gallons of stolen gas? Dom didn’t know, so he ran away.
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  (#12) There's a New Real Estate Developer in Town

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  If you lived in Shangri-La Estates, you’d be home by now. Actually you wouldn’t, because you can’t even tour a model home in Shangri-La Estates until the entire development is finished. Apparently, the investors aren't interested in filling homes with hardworking middle-class families. In Tokyo Drift, our man Sean Boswell races against the formidable Clay for the ultimate prize.

  Thankfully, Shangri-La Estates is close by the high school, and conveniently abandoned in the middle of a perfect-weather weekday. All it takes is a pair of bolt cutters for half the high school to cruise down an empty street adorned with dozens of houses in the exact same stage of construction.
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  (#5) A Yakuza Boss Takes Input from an American Teenager

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  Yakuza is a flexible term used to reference members of one of several Japanese crime families that came to prominence after WWII. Those gangs try to mask their origins behind legitimate businesses, but they are largely still involved in serious, criminal activities ranging from extortion to drug trafficking and prostitution. Some members apologize to their leaders by amputating their own fingers.

  You have to wonder why, in Tokyo Drift, Sean Boswell is able to waltz into a private club and directly approach a yakuza boss, in order to apologize for causing business losses, and explain that he plans to make up for it by racing the boss’s screw-up nephew, DK. After all, what better way to catapult a yakuza crime family into the 21st century than to let an American kid in high school tell you how to run your business?

  There's also that scene in Tokyo Drift where Sean gets thrown around by a fat dude in a bathhouse. 
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  (#1) Deckard Shaw Wins for Most Frequent Flyer Miles

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  Deckard Shaw is one hell of a super villain in Furious 7. Motivated, ruthless, impossible to harm, and able to jet around the globe as he pleases without the cumbersome burdens of long flights. You see Shaw in London, Los Angeles, Tokyo, back to Los Angeles, in the Caucasus Mountains of Georgia, and finally in Dubai, in the first half of the movie. For anyone keeping score, that's about flight 31,000 miles, and doesn't take into account time required for customs and ground transportation (Tokyo's airport, for instance, is about 40 miles from the center of the city). 

  One more note: Shaw engages in nothing short of terrorism in every location, but seems to have no trouble traveling internationally, at his leisure. He's either got the most reliable private jet service in existence, or his face is just too jacked up to register on any facial recognition software in any airport on earth.
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  (#3) Why Not Take Just the Radio?

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  Fast Five followed the newfound tradition of starting hard and fast. Dom, Brian, Mia, and even Vince join a crew of Brazilian gangsters to steal a handful of exotic cars off a fast-moving train. The twist? Dom and Brian don’t know the other gang’s lead man Zizi is after only a microchip hidden inside the radio of the Ford GT40 they’re after. Their collective plan is to cut off an entire side panel of the train with blowtorches, then wench each car to a flatbed ramp, and reverse them to freedom. All for a data chip inside one car’s radio. Everything is going smoothly, until it’s not, and the ensuing commotion garners the unwanted attention of some DEA agents onboard. Why not just send one guy on the train to steal the GT40’s radio? Without, you know, blowtorching the train while it's moving? 
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  (#8) There's Good, and There's Ludacris Good

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  Tej has worn many hats over the years. We first got to know him in Miami, where he spent his days organizing and taking bets on jet ski races by day and illegal street races by night. He even had Jimmy at his garage to help customize electrical systems on cars. Eight years later, in Fast Five, Tej was born again, capable of hacking practically anyone and anything, customizing car builds, and even cracking an industrial safe fit for a bank.

  By Furious 7, Tej was unstoppable. Not only did his hacking skills increase exponentially, so did his mechanical engineering prowess. The day before Dom, Tej, and the gang head to the Caucasus Mountains at the behest of Mr. Nobody, Tej completely deconstructed two existing vehicles and built an entirely new car Dom desperately needed for the mission. He also had just enough time to outfit the other cars with parachute rigs synchronized with GPS that perfectly integrated to their needs. That one-night timeline would’ve been impossible for a lesser man, but not for Tej.

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