$2 Million Car in Salt Marsh - youtube

OK, so it's really crazy that somebody drove a 2-million-dollar car into a salt
marsh. But there are two things that seem just as crazy to me. 1) There's a
car that costs two million dollars. 2) Somebody bought one.

Holy crap! What's it like to have that kind of dough?

what george said

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3) It counts as news.

His explanation is a bit odd -
Dodging a pelican, then reaching for a cell phone, ends in the water.

As Bugatti's go, it was kind of ugly too.

Allegedly

Reminds me of:
Playing tape, then reaching for a phone, ends with tape erasure.

Can a slow news day really be claimed as one reason this story came up? Slow and Bugatti are oxymoronic together, or at least should be.

Really great memory, George.

LUFKIN, Texas -- Police have revealed the identity of the owner and driver of a million-dollar French sports car that he accidentally veered into a salt marsh.

The Lufkin Daily News reports police records in the Gulf Coast town of La Marque, Texas, identified 34-year-old Andy House of Lufkin as the driver of the 2006 Bugatti Veyron EB. Police say the car veered off an Interstate 45 frontage road and into the marsh Wednesday afternoon, becoming half-submerged in the brine. House wasn’t injured.

The newspaper reports House owns a company that restores damaged luxury cars for resale. A 2006 Bugatti Veyron was recently offered for sale in Jonesboro, Ark., for $1.25 million.

A call and e-mail to House from The Associated Press weren’t returned Friday. However, tow truck operator Gilbert Harrison tells the Houston Chronicle that House was "getting so many calls that he finally stopped answering his phone." Among the callers were California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and several other celebrities.

The publicity may make the man even richer.

Ok, he owns a company that sells restored luxury cars... so he buys a Bugawhatever, insures it for $5mil (because it has sentimental value), damages it (without wrecking it), collects the insurance money (gives the insurance agent $.5mil not to ask questions), has his own company restore it (non-taxable income with a few tricks) and resells it for 1.5mil. Profit: $4mil (probably hidden from taxes somehow). No wonder this guy is rich.

And since the insurance industry derives its rates from actuarial tables which take such fraud into account... we paid the difference. So he stole $1 from 4million people through insurance policy rates, and nobody even noticed.

If he can afford the car, getting it cleaned will be chump change.

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Gtting a once in a lifetime shot of a rare BROWN PIXELLATED PELICAN--priceless.

Dang, we're old.

What an age we live in. Anything that happens can be recorded, it seems. The actual crash of that car is on youtube.

Did ya see the menace in that pelican's actions?

Despite this alleged coincidence of a marvel of out technical savvy ... could this whole shebang possibly some kind of staged publicity stunt?

I believe I heard on TV (I was in another room) that the car is going on the auction block.