Man Plans To Collect Every VHS Copy of Speed In The World

A man has committed his entire life to a single pursuit – collecting every VHS copy of the movie Speed in the world – reports The Daily Mirror.

Ryan Beitz, from Moscow, Idaho, wants to own every cassette copy of the 1994 classic.

‘He already owns 550 tapes of the movie, and isn’t stopping there. He’s begun a Kickstarter campaign to deck out his van like the film’s famous bus so he can travel the country to find more copies.

His obsession started when he bought six copies of the film at a pawn shop in 2006, and has raced out of control since then.’

“One time I bought 30 copies from a store,” Beitz told his local TV station KREM. “A lot of people just donate them to me, they send them from all over. I’ve got a few from Japan. I would buy them all off of Amazon, but the shipping costs $4 when the copy costs a penny. It’s ridiculous.”

Georgia Perry of Vice journeyed to Moscow, Idaho to interview Beitz about his quest:

And you’re going to collect them all.
Yeah. People always go, “Dude how many of these things are you going to get?” And I’m like, “All of them, duh.”

Isn’t that impossible?
I mean, probably, because of unknown human forces, the logistics of tracking them all down, and just the sheer expense.  I don’t want to spend money on this. If a copy’s more than $4, I’ll just steal it. But that’s not going to make me stop. That’d be the same as somebody saying like, “It’s impossible to make the world a good place, so I’m not going to try.” If the idea is awesome, I’m just going to devote myself to it regardless.

So you’d say the World Speed Project is awesome?
I think the World Speed Project is awesome in the truest sense of the word. It’s larger than life. Imagine all of them in one place! It’s uncompromising.