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Public Menace

Public Menace

Rack up $47,000 in penalties during a single story case.

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How to unlock the Public Menace achievement in L.A. Noire - Definitive Guide

Start up the traffic desk case "The Driver's Seat" as it is a very short case to complete. Once you take control of Cole Phelps, open up your map and find the location of the Phantom Corsair, a hidden vehicle that is located on the corner of Traction ave and 3rd street. It is almost at the bottom right hand side of the map near the Los Angeles River. I am adding a picture to help with locating it.

Once you get the vehicle, drive it and crash it into another vehicle at high speeds so that you can catch the engine of the vehicle on fire, effectively destroying it. Now what you want to do is travel a few blocks away from where you got the Phantom car from and then travel back to it to find that the vehicle as spawned back at the garage. Repeat the step of crashing the car and going back to the garage about 6 times, I did 8 just to be sure. After crashing the car at least 6 times, complete the case and you should unlock the achievement at the end of the case.

Note: If you destroy a Phantom and find the garage empty when you go back, have your partner drive you a few blocks away and then return.
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23 Nov 2017 19:51

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Depending on what car and how you hit it, you can get 3 Decent crashes with one car, Did this method you suggested 8 times as thats what i thought was normal and I racked up 120k in Vehicle damages xD
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By cerberus276 on 02 Jan 2018 23:48
@ x The Horrorist don't know what to say dude. Could be an xbox issue.
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By GameGod03 on 07 Jan 2018 03:08
@ x The Horrorist damn that sucks man. Give it 72 hours and it should unlock.
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By GameGod03 on 08 Jan 2018 06:34
got it thx
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By Nazule80 on 24 Jan 2019 07:10
heres a good link on how to speedrun the case after you've caused the damage

https://lanoirespeedrunning.com/any%25-the-drivers-seat.html
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By almightykonig on 04 Oct 2021 10:28
WILL USING FAST TRAVEL MESS UP GETTING THIS ACHIEVEMENT? THANKS VERY MUCH.
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By GARY4JESUS on 02 Jan 2022 19:38
DO YOU HAVE TO COMPLETE THE CASE TO GET THE ACHIEVEMENT? THANKS AGAIN FOR THE HELP
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By GARY4JESUS on 02 Jan 2022 20:26
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This is best done by replaying a case after you've completed the game. Load up the Traffic cases and choose 'The Drivers Seat'. You'll need to smash up your car and others, run over people and smash through poles, benches, lights etc to gain those penalty points. 

Once you think you've racked up enough damage points, complete the case anyway you want and the achievement will unlock. 


For the best and fasted methods of getting this achievement, please go HERE.

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This is best done by replaying a case after you've completed the game. Load up the Traffic cases and choose 'The Drivers Seat'. You'll need to smash up your car and others, run over people and smash through poles, benches, lights etc to gain those penalty points.

Once you think you've racked up enough damage points, complete the case anyway you want and the achievement will unlock.

For the best and fasted methods on getting this achievement, please go HERE.

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There are several methods that can used to obtain this trophy, The easiest is to complete it with the Rare Vehicles because they respawn instantly.

How to get the case done quickly
You can skip most of the interviews and you only have to find 3 clues to get to the end. Just get the receipt from the trunk, his address from his wallet, don't bother talking to the guy at the rail yard, go to the house, get the matchbook, ask the wife about the receipt and the matchbook then leave, and you're set from there as long as you do the Morgan interview right (get the location without having to tail him). It takes maybe 10 minutes to go through the whole case once you're satisfied with your carnage. Thanks to ReverendSID for the tip.

Method 1:
Destroying the American La France Fire Truck six times is the fastest method to rack up damage. Get the fire truck and reverse the truck into a gas station pump area. The gas station will blow up and destroy the fire truck, leaving you unharmed. Make sure you do not drive the truck into the gas pump head on, you will die and reset the whole count. You can find the truck close to the Ad Vice police station, that is located in Hollywood.

Method 2:
Play the "The Driver's Seat" case on Traffic Desk. Simply play the case until you have to go to Frank Morgan's apartment, but do not go in because it will force an auto-finish case at this point. Get the Duesenberg Walker Coupe (Rare - on the corner of Santa Monica Blvd and El Centro Ave in Hollywood). Enter a garage behind the Automobile Club of Southern California. Simply crash 7 of those cars by reaching max speed and hitting a car coming from opposite direction. You must do this until the hood of the car starts on fire and you are no longer able to drive it.

Method 3 (Three)
Find the Phantom Corsair (Rare Car). The car spawns right away once you leave the garage. The car takes about 2 to 3 full on hits to another car before it's totaled. It will take about 6 of these cars before you reach the required amount. Once you have totaled one car you can head back to the garage and get another to total to reach the required 47,000. Totaling 6 of those cars will net you over 51,000 dollars in damage. Make sure you do not die at all, dying will reset the count and leave you at zero once you start the case again. Thanks to Vuule for the info.

YouTube - L.A. Noire: Public Menace Achievement Guide

Note: If you happen to not get this trophy and you have replayed the first traffic case, just go to resume and choose the "The Driver's Seat (Replay)" case. That way you will start off right before you end the case, right before you confront the last suspect.

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For this trophy you need to finish the job and receive a total of $47,000 in damage. The damage consists of the damage that you cause to your car, the city (other people's cars, poles, etc.) and people, it is calculated very slowly (a car broken into rubbish costs around 200-300 dollars) and the worst thing is until the end of the case You can’t track him anywhere, and then it’s too late.


This trophy is considered the most tedious and time-consuming, but there is a relatively simple and quick way to do it. Let's take some simple matter, for example the very first one in the road department, “ The Driver's Seat ”. If you don’t know where the last save point is in the case, then play the case to the end (when the results are already shown). In the results window, exit the game via XMB, then launch the game again and select RESUME. We find ourselves at the last checkpoint before completing the case.


Now open the map and put a mark on Melrose street between Berendo and Vermont streets (north of the Whilshire district) and ask your partner to take you there (press and hold next to the car).





There is a fire station with an expensive fire truck. We take the fire truck and start ramming oncoming cars at full speed. It is advisable to bring the car to black smoke from under the hood, but if it starts to drive slowly, that will also do. We throw away the broken firebox and take a new one at the station. 6-7 killed fires will be enough. Then we take our squirrel and go to the switch, finish the job and look at the results. If suddenly (which is unlikely) there is not enough money, then we again exit the game via XMB, load the last checkpoint and try again, increasing the number of broken fires.
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25 May 2011 00:03

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in this same fire truck we drive along the side of the road, knocking over everything that comes our way (mailboxes, lamp posts, traffic lights, benches) it will be faster because you will spoil the car and also cause a lot of damage to the city.
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By XEPOCuMO on 25 Jul 2011 07:56
You can break up a little less fires, but try to break up the ones you meet. Having broken 8 fires and created chaos, I ended up with 90,000, which is twice as much as needed. The main thing is patience and your
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By Bloodon on 18 Jun 2012 18:32
This trophy is easily obtained when receiving the Hollywoodland trophy, the main thing is that on the way to the locations of the films, crash into another car head-on (we destroyed the car, take a new one, etc.), and at the same time sit behind the wheel of about 40-50 cars, and this will then speed up the receipt Auto Fanatic trophy
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By Free-DiverSergej on 30 Oct 2012 00:36
There is a trick to look at the money results without finishing the job. However, I realized this too late, it only works until you have completed the case first. I kept track of whether I should immediately replay the case or while the damage was minimal and I could earn 5 stars. We go to the offsite where all our statistics are there for every case. For example, the very first case in the Road Department. You can immediately start hammering everything. Further, all updates to the site occur after saving some part of the file. We broke a lot and are going to the first place, evidence, interrogations, etc. After we have finished, we save the interrogations and evidence, and statistics on the damage to the car and the city are also indicated there, then we drive around and break everything. After a while, information will be uploaded to the offsite. according to the passage." Once again, for those who do not understand, we are going through not the whole thing, but part of the thing." If you have enough and you’ve scored 47,000, then we’ll get through the process. The first case is divided into 3 Stages: “Car on the Tracks”, “House of the Missing”, “Interrogation of the type in the Bar”. After each action, statistics will be saved and sent to the website
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By selvo13 on 20 Mar 2017 12:30
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The damage that you caused to both the Cars and the City during the case is summed up.
There is a problem with statistics - until you finish the case, you will not know how much of a fine you have received. It is very advisable to do this trophy in cases that you have already completed with 5 stars and are completing again, since the game will fine you with stars for such fines!
We select a short case that has already been completed (I recommend that I already described the first case in the transport department “ Driver’s seat ” for the Interrogation with passion trophy).
As the case progresses, we go to mischief (details below), at the end of the case, the results screen appears. And if we misbehaved for the required amount ($47,000 - corresponds to the year the events of the game took place) - we immediately get silver.
Attention! If you didn’t get it and the trophy didn’t fall out, don’t press it under any circumstances. on the case results screen!!! We exit the game through the (PS) button, then turn it on again - Continue and select the file with the case that we went through. We find ourselves at the last checkpoint - we don’t go to detain the culprit, but turn around and go on to collect fines. Then we finish the job again and look at the results...
How to stuff quickly? The best way that everyone recommends is fire trucks
We sit on the fire truck and hit everything we come across - oncoming traffic, trams (I even knocked one off the rails), streetlights, traffic lights, benches. Until dark gray smoke pours out from under the hood. The car is expensive, so taking into account the damage to everything else, it turns out (checked 2 times) about $9,000 in fines for one firebox that has been trashed. We got rid of one - we're going for another.
So 6 fires until dark smoke (~$54,000 - I got that much) - and at the end of the job the trophy is deserved (and the rating is "Careless")
Where can I get a fire starter???:
1) Hollywood Police Department - in the parking lot near the police cars. Convenient - the branch is marked on the map. Sometimes the game plays a trick and doesn’t mark this compartment on the map - then on the map we focus on the intersection below the second letter “L” in the word HOLLYWOOD.
2) Fire station in the north of the Wilshire area. It is located on Melrose Ave in the middle of its intersections with Berendo and Vermont streets. A tall building with a policeman on the advertisement, a Cola-King advertisement and an inscription at the entrance to the ENGINE C"N" 32 depot.
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14 Jan 2018 05:50

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You can track damage statistics on the social club website in the game section, selecting the business in which you are doing this

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By GSan4eZz on 04 Apr 2018 09:43
It's much easier and faster to smash bonus machines into trash (?). The fire department is not always on site, at least in the initial cases
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By HappyMan on 12 Mar 2018 22:59
It’s worth combining the trophy with collecting films/records, sights and rolling 194 miles to make it more fun. I got into trouble in this way for more than $100,000
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By ACE on 29 Sep 2018 17:48
The easiest and fastest way!
Let's go to the case "Pot Madness" of the morality department.
We go to the bar, then to the address, we knock out everyone inside by going around the house on the left side and going into their back. We are looking for evidence and not going to the factory! We shorten the mission and go to the store, but before that, we go to the fire station located in Wilshere, take a fire truck there and demolish everything in our path! It is advisable to do this after complete completion, because there will be no more than one asterisk in the end. You will need to change 5 cars, kill the fire truck and go back to the depot for the next one! I killed 8 firemen, the fines at the end amounted to a tidy sum)
After you've had enough fun, we go to the store, there will be a chase after the suspect and interrogation. Immediately after this there is a factory, then another factory with shootouts and the end of the mission.
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By Miss.A.IR.T on 08 Sep 2020 21:33
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