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

There is a picture if anyone can post it

Was the bird O K ?? I hope so.

You own a Bugatti, but you don't have blue-tooth?

More money than sense

To each his own I guess. I'm told one of our hands owns a Lamborghini. Not much else, but he does own the Lamboghini.

I understand why the man was afraid of the pelican. My wife and I were walking in Curacao one time and I saw this line of pelicans lazily approaching at a height of about fifteen feet with wings set. I thought what a great place, vacation, setting, whereupon he dropped a half pint of shit across my head and shirt. I won't hesitate to go for a salt marsh should I see a similar scenario developing.

www.jalopnik.com has shown photos of many high performance autos that have been crashed .Lots of performance driven by the brainless !

Since when does being rich have anything to do with intelligence?

here the video.
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/articles/041.shtml

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Originally posted by Woodrow S:
Since when does being rich have anything to do with intelligence?

Excellant point.