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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 for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. (AP Photo/The Galveston County Daily News, Chris Paschenko)

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[flash]

i think he misunderestimated things there

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[94SilverCab]

I saw this elsewhere. Apparently, the wing deploys at 137 MPH...anything could be distracting at that speed.

BTW the car was for sale...Texas Lightninig maybe?

Jay

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[ebarone968]

Which was it ? The pelican, the phone, or both ? Did the phone drop first, then he looked up and saw a pelican ? Or did he see the pelican and drop the phone because the pelican scared the bejesus out of him. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/rolleyes.gif[/img]

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[flash]

i'm guessing it was that he dropped his beer when he was calling his buddy to tell him he was about to shoot a pelican while driving

it was texas after all

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[rxter]

Maybe taking a picture whilst passing the pelican at 137?

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[ds968]

it was KARMA that caused this.. for being on his cell phone while driving

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[rhudeboye]

Who talks on the cell at speeds upwards of 100mph? Got what he had coming.

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[ds968]

what got me on this was the " dropped his cell phone " remark. let me see, the car is around $ 1.5 million but it does not come with built-in bluetooth ? [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/ohmy.gif[/img] or, perhaps that was an extra option and at somewhere around $ 300 the owner thought it's just too expensive to indulge in [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/tongue.gif[/img]

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[flash]

yeah - it cracks me up how many people are too cheap to get bluetooth in their car - here in california there are a number of insurance companies who will ding you up to $1000 a year for 3 years in rate increases for a cell phone violation, even though the ticket itself is only about $150 all in, and doesn't go on your driving record - they are using it as an indicator of reckless behavior, just like being 25 in a sports car - that's a pretty big roll of the dice versus just getting the danged gadget

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