This has got to suck!!
Sat Nov 14, 2009 12:44 pm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_ ... on_bugatti
LA MARQUE, Texas – A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.
The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist. The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered off the road and into the salt marsh. The car was half-submerged in the brine about 20 feet from the road when police arrived.
Gilchrist said he doesn't know if the car was salvageable, but in his words, "Salt water isn't good for anything." He says the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was not injured.
A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million.
LA MARQUE, Texas – A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 p.m. Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston.
The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. Greg Gilchrist. The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered off the road and into the salt marsh. The car was half-submerged in the brine about 20 feet from the road when police arrived.
Gilchrist said he doesn't know if the car was salvageable, but in his words, "Salt water isn't good for anything." He says the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was not injured.
A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million.
Re: This has got to suck!!
Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:40 pm
ouch. wonder if he had insurance, would really suck if he didn't 
Re: This has got to suck!!
Sat Nov 14, 2009 5:55 pm
serves him right for being such a pretencious prat
Re: This has got to suck!!
Sat Nov 14, 2009 8:07 pm
Poyda wrote:serves him right for being such a pretencious prat
Well, personally, I reckon good luck to anyone who can afford any sort of dream car worth millions! Let me tell ya for nothing, if I ever get to the point where I can afford one, then call me pretentious!!!
Re: This has got to suck!!
Sun Nov 15, 2009 9:05 am
Re: This has got to suck!!
Mon Nov 16, 2009 9:36 pm
Reedy wrote:ouch. wonder if he had insurance, would really suck if he didn't
when they did a test on topgear, they tried to see how much insurance would be and the insurance company said they couldnt insure it.