Only in Texas - Man distracted by pelican drives Bugatti in marsh - Toyota Yaris Forums

MadMax · 11-12-2009, 09:04 PM

Typical Texan...go big, or go home!

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Man Distracted by Pelican Drives Bugatti in Marsh

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.

squall_x · 11-12-2009, 09:26 PM

FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

custom Lftback · 11-12-2009, 09:44 PM

what....a....moron...

TinyGiant · 11-12-2009, 09:44 PM

can you say insurance fraud?

AzNguy · 11-12-2009, 09:50 PM

there goes one of the best cars...

TLyttle · 11-12-2009, 10:12 PM

Too much money, too little intelligence. How did he make the money to afford that car in the first place?????

TinyGiant · 11-12-2009, 10:15 PM

prolly came from daddy

PETERPOOP · 11-12-2009, 10:16 PM

YEEHAW!

minired5stby · 11-12-2009, 10:30 PM

Yeah he looks like a spoiled dork. If there was a small caption below the pic it would read: I might as well fish a little while I'm out here.

*tomato* · 11-12-2009, 10:47 PM

sure, blame the pelican!

Shroomster · 11-12-2009, 11:17 PM

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Originally Posted by minired5stby

Yeah he looks like a spoiled dork. If there was a small caption below the pic it would read: I might as well fish a little while I'm out here.

that pic is probably of the tow truck driver, too fat to actually get in there anyway

TinyGiant · 11-12-2009, 11:19 PM

theres probably a hooker in the trunk

SilverBack · 11-13-2009, 12:21 AM

Because to them a brain costs too much, so the next best thing is a supercar to compensate

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

Yeah I bet

yaris-me · 11-13-2009, 02:52 AM

If it wasn't a Veyron, it wouldn't make the news. Poor idiots don't make the news.

slothman86 · 11-13-2009, 09:43 AM

maybe it was one of those runaway cars we keep hearing about

gokartride · 11-13-2009, 01:10 PM

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Originally Posted by yaris-me

Poor idiots don't make the news.

Unfortunately, we have lots of those here in Texas, too!!!

KCALB SIRAY · 11-13-2009, 02:24 PM

Look at the picture and look at the spoiler. It is extended in the up position. Two reasons it would be up would be that it was traveling faster than 130mph or remaining up after a hard run to cool the engine. Bird my ass....BUSTED!!!

why? · 11-13-2009, 06:40 PM

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Originally Posted by KCALB SIRAY

Look at the picture and look at the spoiler. It is extended in the up position. Two reasons it would be up would be that it was traveling faster than 130mph or remaining up after a hard run to cool the engine. Bird my ass....BUSTED!!!

Yup. That is prolly the excuse for most of these supercar accidents. Blame anything so that you don't get busted for tripling the speed limit.

11-12-2009, 09:44 PM	#4
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11-12-2009, 10:47 PM	#10
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squall_x Drives: '07 M&M LB Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: San Diego Posts: 39	FAIL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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TLyttle Drives: 07 Yaris sedan Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Keremeos BC Posts: 986	Too much money, too little intelligence. How did he make the money to afford that car in the first place?????

11-12-2009, 10:16 PM	#8
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minired5stby View User's Garage Drives: Yaris S liftback Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: San Diego Posts: 759	Yeah he looks like a spoiled dork. If there was a small caption below the pic it would read: I might as well fish a little while I'm out here.

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yaris-me Learn to Relax Drives: 2007, Meteorite, LB Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Anaheim, CA Posts: 2,070	If it wasn't a Veyron, it wouldn't make the news. Poor idiots don't make the news.

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