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Pelican Wrecks Million Dollar Bugatti
News Type: Event — Seeded on Thu Nov 12, 2009 5:12 PM EST
Article Source: The New York Timesadvertisement
LA MARQUE, Texas (AP) -- 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.
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{"commentId":10647093,"authorDomain":"tydicea"}
Blame it on the pelican....he was probably texting.
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- 8 votes
#1 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 6:12 PM EST{"commentId":10647282,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}
If I was driving a million dollar car a pelican doing the hula would not get my attention...
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- 8 votes
{"commentId":10647948,"authorDomain":"kimmy123"}
If I was driving a million dollar car, I would have both hands on the wheel and clenched for dear life. If I am doing over 20 mph, my teeth would be clenched on the wheel too.
A case of too much money, no problems, too lackadaisical, and daddy's insurance will take care of it.
Why do you think your insurance is so high?
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":10648018,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}
Blame it on the pelican....he was probably texting.
Even if the pelican was texting I woudn't have driven into a swamp.
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":10648304,"authorDomain":"desertjeeper49"}
Here is the recovery video
http://videos.streetfire.net/video/Bugatti-Veyron-Goes-in_719002.htm
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- 6 votes
{"commentId":10649134,"authorDomain":"kimmy123"}
The rear wings were raised. They only cone up at a high rate of speed. That should tell you something.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10650062,"authorDomain":"rdonaldsnyder"}
If I was driving a million dollar car my wife would file for divorce and demand possession of it.
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10650230,"authorDomain":"littlereddog"}
What?!!!, RDS. If I had a husband driving a million dollar car, I'd sure as hell stick around. Sugar Daddy!
{"commentId":10650230,"threadId":"723085","contentId":"3495166","authorDomain":"littlereddog"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":10650282,"authorDomain":"rdonaldsnyder"}
I can't afford a million dollar car, so she'd divorce me for hiding money from her and then take half of it as a community property settlement. (sigh)
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- 4 votes
{"commentId":10650576,"authorDomain":"v-shious"}
Thank goodness the pelican's OK. It would be a shame if an upper-class twit were to harm such a noble beast.
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- 5 votes
{"commentId":10650627,"authorDomain":"bonosrama"}
r. Donald, I wouldn't divorce you over a million dollar car. Maybe a two million dollar one.
;)
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10650741,"authorDomain":"rdonaldsnyder"}
Thanks.....I think?
;-)
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10652096,"authorDomain":"boofat1"}
Wonder if he'll take $80k for it now?
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10648149,"authorDomain":"TR966"}
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- 2 votes
#2 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:09 PM EST{"commentId":10648178,"authorDomain":"Hardyman1966"}
What on EARTH is a Bugatti doing in Texas?
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- 3 votes
#3 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:11 PM EST{"commentId":10650904,"authorDomain":"TR966"}
Long, straight, flat, roads. Hwy 45 north out of Houston, you can open it up and fly. (Not that I have ever done such a thing ;) )
{"commentId":10650904,"threadId":"723085","contentId":"3495166","authorDomain":"TR966"}
- 3 votes
{"commentId":10650928,"authorDomain":"TR966"}
Or if you are talking about the price, there is a lot of people in Texas with a lot of money, and I mean a lot of money.
{"commentId":10650928,"threadId":"723085","contentId":"3495166","authorDomain":"TR966"}
- 2 votes
{"commentId":10652783,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}
"What on EARTH is a Bugatti doing in Texas?"
Sounds like part of Texas is now in the Bugatti.
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- 2 votes
{"commentId":10648546,"authorDomain":"kikaiju"}
Loss of a great car :(
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- 3 votes
#4 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 7:32 PM EST{"commentId":10649157,"authorDomain":"mstanley2265"}
must have lotsa oil money.,...
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- 4 votes
#5 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:05 PM EST{"commentId":10649390,"authorDomain":"jbfarleft"}
Sounds fishy to me... I hope the insurance company investigates.
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- 3 votes
#6 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:19 PM EST{"commentId":10649922,"authorDomain":"Pro-American"}
Idiots that can afford a million dollar automobile have to extra be ordinarily cautious around Pelicans. Those endangered birds are out to get you!!!!!!!!!!!
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- 5 votes
#7 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:53 PM EST{"commentId":10649974,"authorDomain":"Pro-American"}
Rich idiots that can afford one million dollar automobiles should know that those Pelicans are out to get you!!!!!!!
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- 4 votes
#8 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 8:57 PM EST{"commentId":10650329,"authorDomain":"blayde"}
Screw it, I live in Nebraska, I fear deer, I drive with so much reverence for nature every morning, I drive a Yaris, I have a conscience.
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- 2 votes
#9 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 9:26 PM EST{"commentId":10651845,"authorDomain":"jeffreysmith-1"}
And they just took the brown pelican off the endangered species list!! Unfortunately idiot drivers like this are not on the endangered species list. Does anyone really buy the pelican story. The guy was probably going way too fast and lost control of the car - look at the configuration of the automatic adjusting rear wing for confirmation of this.
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- 3 votes
#10 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:21 PM EST{"commentId":10652055,"authorDomain":"scm80005"}
If I were driving that car one of the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz, on fire doing the hula and juggling on the hood of my car would not distract me.
Shame about the car...
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- 2 votes
#11 - Thu Nov 12, 2009 11:41 PM EST{"commentId":10652800,"authorDomain":"luckydog"}
If I were driving that car one of the flying monkeys from the Wizard of Oz, on fire doing the hula and juggling on the hood of my car
I think I was at that party...
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- 3 votes
{"commentId":10653061,"authorDomain":"piletre"}
Tsk Tsk.. turn off the phone, stupid..
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- 2 votes
#12 - Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:51 AM EST{"commentId":10653075,"authorDomain":"piletre"}
(deleting my double post...)
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#13 - Fri Nov 13, 2009 1:52 AM EST{"commentId":10654247,"authorDomain":"Pvt-Public"}
Actually, drives into marsh while retrieving dropped cellphone. Refuses to accept responsibility so he blames a low flying bird. Any one want to bet he continues to phone/text while driving, because after all it was the birds fault, wasn't it?
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- 4 votes
#14 - Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:53 AM EST{"commentId":10656994,"authorDomain":"jbfarleft"}
Seriously, who would drive a multi-million dollar vehicle that sits a few inches from the road in this country? You hit one pot hole or bump going 70/80 mph and you and the car are toast. To drive a Bugatti Veyron at top speed, it requires two keys and you should be on a race track. I have yet to find any roads that are smooth enough and straight enough to go 250+ mph. Plus the road would need to have no traffic...NONE.
He was trying to sell it for 1.25 million. That dude wanted to collect some insurance money. The insurance company should investigate. Smells like fraud.
What a waste of a great car.
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- 2 votes
#15 - Fri Nov 13, 2009 10:37 AM EST{"commentId":10675065,"authorDomain":"pazalea"}
If I had a million dollar Bugatti, I'd also have a driver thus enabling me to observe Pelicans doing any number of things: swooping, diving, opening their enormous bills to consume whatever it is they intend to gobble up. Perhaps the Bugatti owner feared being eaten and chose to preserve himself in a saltwater marsh.
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