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    Man distracted by bird drives Bugatti into marsh - Yahoo! News

    The birds! They are out to get us! One supercar driving, cell-phone dropping multimillionaire at a time!


    Oh, wait, maybe it's not the bird's fault. No...wait, it totally was. So, I was talking on my cell driving my million dollar quad-turbo, when this damn pelican distracted me so bad I dropped my phone! I bent over to get it, swerved, and drove into a canal. Yeah....totally the damn bird's fault.

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    Blaming a bird and a phone, on being a lame driver...
    Good for him he did not get into an accident and kill people.
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    If anyone is in the market I know where you can get a Bugatti Veyron cheap.
    Be careful how you treat people on your way up, you may meet them again on your way back down.

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    And you KNOW he's going to make an inusrance claim. Being rich and in Florida, is it safe to assume he was doing 23 miles an hour?

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    Quote Originally Posted by smokelaw1 View Post
    And you KNOW he's going to make an inusrance claim. Being rich and in Florida, is it safe to assume he was doing 23 miles an hour?
    He was in La Marque, Texas according to the byline in the article you linked. Here in Florida we just run into the pelicans. They are no longer on the endangered species list.

    Edit; for any bleeding hearts .... I'm only kidding, I love pelicans and would drive off a cliff rather than harm a feather on their lovable heads.
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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    He was in La Marque, Texas according to the byline in the article you linked. Here in Florida we just run into the pelicans. They are no longer on the endangered species list.

    Edit; for any bleeding hearts .... I'm only kidding, I love pelicans and would drive off a cliff rather than harm a feather on their lovable heads.
    Damn...my reading comprehension really has been awful lately. I need to start paying attention before I write! I guess I was thinking of my granfather. Weatlhy and old, legally blind (white cane and all!) got pulled over DRIVING HOME from his lighthouse (organization for the blind). Handed the cop his license, and his vision was so bad that he didn't even know that my father had taped a note to it, asking for professional courtesy (ex LEO) to get him home safe and call my dad.

    But would you drive into a marsh in your Bugatti? Because if I was in that car, I think I might drive through a flock of spotted owls, over the last Dodo, and crush a Komodo dragon or two before swerving. And I AM a bleeding heart...but I'm also a car nut.
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    Thats not Gary/Traveler is it?
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    What a plum.

    The fact that he ended up 20ft away from the road does suggest to me that it was the guy driving like a berk rather than some sort of pelican related incident!

    Lets face it, if you were driving sensibly you'd probably have been able to stop safely with the brakes on a car like that, not end up in a lake!

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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyHAD View Post
    .... I'm only kidding, I love pelicans and would drive off a cliff rather than harm a feather on their lovable heads.
    Bet you wouldn't in your Veyron!

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    Not just a canal but a salt marsh!

    I don't think Bugattis are stainless. are they???

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