Bugatti Takes A Swim

[AutoInsane]

One expensive mistake!!

Video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhj4z1iU2QY

In this Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009, photo, wrecker driver Gilbert Harrison, with MCH Towing, attaches a towing cable to a Bugatti Veyron that was driven into the water near Omega Bay in La Marque, Texas. A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone after veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston.

[AutoInsane]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33906595/ns/us_news-weird_news/

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.

Celebrity driver
The police declined to release the driver's name, although the incident has drawn a great deal of attention on his vehicle.

The Houston Chronicle reported the Texan has become something of a celebrity. He reportedly told the Texas City wrecker driver who towed his car that California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger called him Wednesday, along with several other celebrities.

“He said he was getting so many calls that he finally stopped answering his phone,” said wrecker driver Gilbert Harrison of MCH Truck and Auto, which is storing the car.

But Harrison said the driver seemed to take his very expensive mistake in stride.

“He was calm,” Harrison told the Chronicle. “If it had been me, I'd have been cussing, but he was calm. I imagine inside he was probably pretty upset.”

The Bugatti Veyron is the fastest and most expensive production car in the world.

A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million.

[Fast67VelleN2O]

bu-yacht-ti

[ANDY M]

If the spoiler was up that far, he was going well above any posted speed limit. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif

[al8apex]

that car appears to attract those less capable of driving well

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQt8kmHBvVw&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jz9MTFYDgl0&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MMu9VOrTTQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAZ5CoQnb4E&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqVaqaooRHI&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_yN7ukCuQ4

[MR PIT PAL]

Ouch!

Jody

[Kim_Howie]

What a maroon!!! There should be a test before you can buy a car like that. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

[427TJ]

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What a maroon!!! There should be a test before you can buy a car like that. http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif

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There is and he passed it: "Do you have the money?"

[BARRY]

GOOD ONE MONEY WILL BUY ANY THING

[al8apex]

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GOOD ONE MONEY WILL BUY ANY THING

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... except brains and driving skills

[H8tulooze]

$1.6 mil.is that right? WOW!!!

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GOOD ONE MONEY WILL BUY ANY THING

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... except brains and driving skills

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yup, you can't fix stupid! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

[Kim_Howie]

No, I don't have the money!!! But I'm sure I could pass the TEST, he did, and he's STILL a maroon!!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

[SS454Elky]

Here is a video of the car actually crashing.

http://www.wreckedexotics.com/articles/041.shtml

[Late BrakeU2]

Fishing for his blackberry(or roach) in a 1.6M car http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

[Xplantdad]

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Fishing for his blackberry(or roach) in a 1.6M car http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif

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And I thought the drivers here in AZ were idiots! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/no.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[AutoInsane]

It really is amazing in this day and age that you drive your exotic car off the road into a salt marsh and within hours there are not only videos of the car being hauled out but of the actual crash!!!

What are the odds of someone digitally recording the at the precise time the car is driven off of the road?????

Hummm... if it wasn't a million dollar car I would think it is a set up!!!

[427TJ]

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No, I don't have the money!!! But I'm sure I could pass the TEST, he did, and he's STILL a maroon!!! http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/haha.gif

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You misunderstood. The question wasn't "does Kim Howie have the money," it's "does any jamoke with a pulse have the money." The dealer doesn't care who the customer is or where the money came from, just hand over the money and you can take the car. Any drug kingpin, rock star, rapper, Wall Street banker/broker can walk in and plop-down the dough and drive off in a Veyron. Business doesn't care where the money came from, just hand it over.

[JRSully]

If he had it insured correctly, he'll have another one next week

[Smokey]

The video is gone...

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The video is gone...

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they are installing the pelican for the insurance company ?

[Xplantdad]

It still works for me? http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/hmmm.gif

[Kim_Howie]

I read it again today !! I did take take it wrong.
Sorry http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif I'm bad

[JJEH]

S*it happens http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

[427TJ]

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I read it again today !! I did take take it wrong.
Sorry http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/dunno.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/flag.gif http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/beers.gif I'm bad

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[PeteLeathersac]

Multi million dollar insurance claims should flow more smoothly now that Bugatti is making their new Veyrons out of porcelain?.
Yep that's a broken one right there..

http://www.thepassinglane.ca/2011/07/bug...ters-dream.html (http://www.thepassinglane.ca/2011/07/bugatti-veyron-crafted-in-porcelain-an-insurance-adjusters-dream.html)

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~ Pete

[mockingbird812]

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: Kim_Howie</div><div class="ubbcode-body">What a maroon!!! There should be a test before you can buy a car like that. &lt;img src=&quot;http://www.yenko.net/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/rolleyes.gif&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; /&gt; </div></div>



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