[Greimann]

Some drama from Socal this morning. Insurance man is going have a conniption.

The sports car went airborne and struck a power pole 5 to 10 feet off the ground, Brooks said. The car was demolished, but two air bags deployed.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-02210...-home-headlines

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[chris]

I watched the vid of the news report. Didn't know there were pics.



I like how they guy claims he was the passanger...lol

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[ether_joe]

oooh what a doozie of a picture.



Didn't they make only 399 of these? Man to lose just one!

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[GuardsRedCoupe]

He says he was the passenger.... yeah right!! <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/laugh.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/laugh.gif" class="smilie" alt="" /> <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/laugh.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[94SilverCab]

Probably claims that Britney Spears was driving...she was distracted by the baby in her lap... <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/biggrin.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />

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[ds968]

oh, pity the driver.. he ( she ? ) is now forced to take the GT, or even the spouse's Bentley turbo to work today, instead.. <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/dry.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



BTW, IF the driver was DUI, fleeing the scene is probably the wisest choice - the penalty is incomparably lighter.. besides, a decent attorney can always explain that the driver panicked, and simply lacked good judgement under the trying circumstances.. far better without the chance to prove and convict a DUI violation unless they track him down right away..

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[flash]

actually, if there were no injuries, a DUI can be charged as a lesser offense than fleeing the scene of an accident, and less than racing at that speed (reckless endangerment) - fleeing can be charged as a felony



this is the problem with society today - it haas become all about what you can get away with, and not what you are responsible for

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[GuardsRedCoupe]

I guess he should have stuck to Need for Speed!





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Swedish games mogul smashes million dollar Ferrari



Published: 22nd February 2006 10:28 CET



A rare one-million-dollar Ferrari sports car belonging to a Swedish game industry mogul slammed into a pole during a high-speed street race on Tuesday, reducing it to scrap metal, US police said.



Police in the plush Los Angeles district of Malibu said the 2003 Ferrari Enzo, only 399 of which were ever made, was owned by Stefan Eriksson, 44, a controversial former executive of the failed handheld gaming company Gizmondo.



The driver lost control of the Ferrari at around dawn when it careened up an embankment, probably became airborne and then slammed into a pole, slicing the vehicle in half, police said.



Eriksson, who was slightly injured in the crash, told police he was a passenger in the vehicle and that the driver was a German man called Dietrich who had fled the scene, Los Angeles Sheriff's Department Sergeant Philip Brooks told AFP.



"Whoever was driving the Ferrari and a Mercedes came out to Malibu for a little race," Sheriff's Department Sergeant Philip Brooks said. "The other car racing was a (500,000-dollar) SLR Mercedes," he said.



Eriksson had a blood-alcohol level of 0.09, which is above the legal limit, Brooks said, adding that nobody had been arrested in connection with the crash but that officers were still seeking to identify the driver of the car.



"He's still considered as the passenger," Brooks said of Eriksson. "We're continuing our investigation. He's not in custody."



The red Ferrari Enzo, other examples of which are owned by such high-flyers as Oscar-winning movie star Nicolas Cage and US fashion designer Tommy Hilfiger, was speeding are more than 192 kilometers an hour (120 mph) when the crash occurred, Brooks said.



The impact sheared the red Italian sports car in two, separating the entire front section from the rest of the vehicle. The 650 horsepower car had a top speed of more than 360 kilometers (225 miles) per hour.



"For a million dollars, you get a very good passenger-safety system, and apparently, in this case, it did work," Brooks said.



Police determined that Eriksson was once an executive of the video game industry firm Gizmondo.



"He told us he is or was the head of Gizmondo," Brooks said, adding also that Eriksson had previously professionally raced Ferraris in Europe.



Internet records show that Eriksson was the executive officer of Gizmondo Europe -- a unit of a US company Tiger Telematics -- which developed games and a high-tech gaming console.



British press reports said Eriksson resigned in October last year after a Swedish newspaper claimed he was convicted in Sweden in the early 1990s for alleged involvement with a Swedish mafia outfit.



The company filed for bankruptcy in Britain last month after reporting a net loss of 140 million pounds (225 million dollars) for the third quarter of 2005 on sales of 1.4 million pounds.

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[Harvey]

Greimann, your humor is unparalleled. "Half Off Sale" I'm still laughing. Can't stop. Someone, PLEASE help me stop laughing!



Harvey

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[Greimann]

The wreck of the Enzo Ferrari just gets better!

investigating officers revealed some startling new details on the wreck. Not only has the suspected speed of the crash been upped to 162 MPH, but it turns out the car is possibly stolen property, exported unlawfully to the US and driven illegally on the roads of California.



“It looks as though the car lifted up and left the highway,” Sgt. Phil Brooks of Malibu Sheriff's Department explained. “That's what caused him to lose it. We're looking at the distances travelled, the wreckage and all of that and we've upped the speed to 162 MPH.”

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big road they call pac coast highway

The road, it is said, never gives up her dead

When the skies of November turn gloomy.



The driver wired in he had booze coming in

And the good ship and crew was in peril

And later that night when his lights went out of sight

Came the wreck of the Enzo Ferrari

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[ds968]

Yuk, yuk, Gordave Greimfoot ..



As brilliantly funny as that was, I'm not laughing too hard because it just reminded me how OLD I am... nearly 20. ( uh, when that song came out, that is.. ) <img src="/forum/images/smilies/968/sad.gif" class="smilie" alt="" />



Thinking though, given the Swedish connection, if this guy wasn't singing along to his to his ABBA cd and not paying attention to the road:



We are closer now, my Enzo

Every hour every minute seem to last eternally

I am so afraid, my Enzo

We're young and full of life and not prepared to die

And I'm not ashamed to say

This coastal highway almost makes me cry



There is something IN THE AIR today, Ferrari !

And it's clearly you my friend, Ferrari

I see police lights for you and me

I can kiss off my liberty, my Enzo

Though I never thought that we could lose

If I had to do the same again

I would, my friend, my Enzo



( BTW, 1/2 of the song is missing )





on a different note, 162 mph is more like it, darn it ! That's almost a respectable speed, not the sissy 120 reported earlier..

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[GuardsRedCoupe]

This story continues to develop:



"Prosecutors contend that Dietrich never existed and that Eriksson was behind the wheel with a blood-alcohol level above the legal limit. The charges were filed after officials received results of a DNA test of blood found on the vehicle's driver-side air bag.



They charged Eriksson with three counts each of embezzlement and grand theft for allegedly bringing two Enzos and a Mercedes McLaren SLR - altogether worth an estimated $3.8 million - into the United States even though he had only leased them from British financial institutions."



Full Story

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