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Offline vanillagorilla

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More money than sense!
« on: November 12, 2009, 06:29:45 PM »
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti
What an idiot! Spend a million dollars on a car just to drive it into a marsh!!! Just think how many cool bikes you could have bought with that kind of cash! Boo this man, BOOOOOOO!!!!
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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2009, 06:57:38 PM »
See....that is just natures way of seperating the clueless from the toy that probably would have helped him lean the gene pool of himself. ;D
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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #2 on: November 12, 2009, 08:09:18 PM »
Maybe he saw one of the James Bond movies where the dude
has a car that can go underwater. ::)
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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2009, 10:22:45 PM »
Probably the best way he could find to get his money back. Insurance scam perhaps?
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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #4 on: November 13, 2009, 04:01:47 PM »
Well, I noticed that his spoiler is stuck at the full open position. That doesn't happen until AFTER 120mph if I am not mistaken(maybe even higher). So this idiot was going WAY fast when he "dropped his cell phone and was distracted by a pelican"! Worst of all he lives about 30min from me. If I ever see that car, I swear to God, I will follow it and slap him for being so dumb!!!
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« Reply #5 on: November 13, 2009, 04:14:35 PM »
Well, I noticed that his spoiler is stuck at the full open position. That doesn't happen until AFTER 120mph if I am not mistaken(maybe even higher).

Not that this guy isn't a complete douche, but in his defense I imagine it would be difficult to drive that car at anything even resembling normal speeds.  120 probably feels like you're just idling through a school zone. ;D

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« Reply #6 on: November 13, 2009, 04:39:07 PM »
Oh god, I'm going to be sick. Low flying bird and a cell phone... must. kick. this. guy. in. the. balls.


Maybe I'd have some sympathy if it wasn't a perfectly STRAIGHT stretch of road.

The rest of the story:
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/11/13/2006-bugatti-veyron-crashes-on-video-posted-to-facebook/#right


You might have something there with the insurance scam...

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« Reply #7 on: November 13, 2009, 04:55:36 PM »
Yea....NEVER saw a pelican (which is a pretty big bird)  has to be a scam
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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #8 on: November 13, 2009, 05:02:44 PM »
Huh, spoiler electrical must have fritzed out in the water, he wasnt doing more than 80... Funny video. "I think its a lambo, dude...", I would hope most men know a Veyron when they see one. Maybe its just me...
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« Reply #9 on: November 13, 2009, 05:07:53 PM »
They claim 40MPH - they had to slow down to keep him in frame supposedly.


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« Reply #10 on: November 13, 2009, 05:14:25 PM »
The fact that this video even exists is amazing!  This is one of the rarest production cars on the road, it happens to get crashed into a lagoon in Texas, and somebody gets the whole thing on video?   

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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #11 on: November 13, 2009, 05:24:30 PM »
and it may end up screwing his insurance claim scam too.
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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #12 on: November 13, 2009, 05:49:56 PM »
I, for one, believe the pelican theory.  I can't drive mine without those damn pelicans attacking.
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« Reply #13 on: November 13, 2009, 05:52:26 PM »
Looks to me like he just fell asleep at the wheel.  Probably doesn't want to admit it, so he made up that lame story that still doesn't get him off the hook for being at fault. 

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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #14 on: November 13, 2009, 05:59:53 PM »
I think that the person taking the video must be a part of the scam

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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #15 on: November 13, 2009, 06:03:25 PM »
He does appear to drive over a fair distance of bumpy (and from the other video muddy) grass/dirt before hitting the water. Now this is a sports car so it is low and has to be somewhat stiff, so you would think that would be teeth chartering. Now it may just be the camera angle but it doesn't even look like he spins the wheel to get it back on the road, just drives on straight into the water. It also doesn't look like the airbag deployed.

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« Reply #16 on: November 14, 2009, 09:33:34 AM »
I don't think it is an insurance scam. Why risking your life? Just go to the wrong part of the city and park the car on a desert, dark street. It won't be there when you are back, go to the police office and report the steal. After all, you can park where you want, don't you?

To me it looks more like a jealous wife/husband. The important question here is: was the driver the owner of the car?


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Re: More money than sense!
« Reply #17 on: November 14, 2009, 01:56:45 PM »
Maybe he saw one of the James Bond movies where the dude
has a car that can go underwater. ::)

Come on, everybody knows only Aston Martins can drive underwater.
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