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Oh the humanity!!!

http://www.nbcsandiego.com/traffic/7298 ... o&psp=news

And more detail here:

http://cbs2.com/topstories/local_story_052110615.html

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Mark O'Dell
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www.grandamadventure.com

Ok, wait for the punch line....



No, no, officer, it wasn't ME driving. I am drunk. Wouldn't be me driving at all. It was this big rabbit you see, he was driving. I said "Your going way too fast!!". But you know how rabbits are, they never listen. He ran from the car after we crashed.


Seriously the guy is lucky to be alive.

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Richard Casto
1972 Porsche 914
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Money can't buy happiness, but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.

A big RABBIT!!!!!!!!

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Todd Breakey
STS 42 - 1992 Sunburst Miata
Dammit!
"You souldn't play leap frog with a porcupine. You might get hurt." - Eliza

damn, built "Ferrari Tough". what a lucky dumb-ass.

I always wondered what happened to Harvey after his movie career.

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Martyn Wheeler
AXing Kit's '05 Mazda 3, #29 HStock
(when The Gonzo Symphonic allows)

Now you see, there's proof that those Fe-or-ries are just cheap Fiat s-boxes. One little little telephone pole, and it's cooked.

In the original "Gone in Sixty Seconds" movie, the '73 Mustang (Eleanor) took out a steel lamppost on the freeway and <suspend disbelief> after a little behind the scenes repair work </suspend disbelief> continued on for the next 20 minutes of the final chase scene.

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?secti ... id=3927255

Here's a video I found saying the "driver" was legally drunk and claims the real driver took off running. LOL!!!

Ok, this continues to be mildly interesting as apparently nobody was hurt and the facts continue to get weirder. Don't know if this is true, but what is being reported is...

* Owner of car is a Swedish national named Stefan Erikssen. He is a former Gizmondo (some type of failed gaming system in Europe) executive and reputed Swedish mobster.
* He claims he was the passenger of the car. Apparently his blood alcohol level was over the legal limit.
* According to Errikssen, the driver was a German known as "Dietrich" who fled the scene.
* Both airbags deployed. Supposedly there was some blood on the driver air bag but none on the passenger bag. Car owner and "passenger" Erikssen had some minor facial cuts. This leads to the theory that Erikssen really was the driver and that "Dietrich" is a fabrication.
* Supposedly it was a street race with a Mercedes SLR after a party that didn't work out so well.

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Richard Casto
1972 Porsche 914
2013 Honda Fit Sport
2015 Honda Fit EX
http://motorsport.zyyz.com
Money can't buy happiness, but somehow it's more comfortable to cry in a Porsche than a Kia.

Wait, there is Erikssen, a passenger and the runaway Dieter?

Is it just me or does the claim that three people were in the car lack some credibility?

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Rich
http://www.v8mongrel.com/

Whatyoutalkin'bout willis??



The owner (Erikssen) claims he was letting his (imaginary) "friend", who he only knew as a German guy named Dietrich, drive his Enzo and he (the drunk Swede) was the passenger. Once the elusive and mysterious Dietrich wrecked the car, he ran off into the hills, leaving Erikssen holding the carbon-fiber bag. I think I saw one report where there was a second shooter, they're still trying to confirm that last I heard.


Got it?





Bret.

maybe Dietrich is the alter ego. this is a ferrari after all.

or maybe a case of split personality, "the many faces of eriksson"

I was going to say that he could use the insurance money to by a used, fly yellow Enzo thats for sale ($950K) at the Ferrari showroom at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas, but apparently the car he wrecked was about to be repo'd. Roger Penzke's Enzo is on display there too, but not for sale.

Just happen to catch this online... http://www.leftlanenews.com/2006/03/28/ ... other-car/

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Dan Bishop
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On AP today.

LOS ANGELES (AP) - The Swedish video game entrepreneur involved in the 162-mph crash of a Ferrari has been arrested, accused of grand theft for an unauthorized collection of exotic cars, authorities said.

Detectives concluded that the wrecked Enzo Ferrari - one of only 400 made - along with a Mercedes and another Enzo Ferrari in Stefan Eriksson's collection were actually owned by British financial institutions, said Sheriff's spokesman Steve Whitmore.

Eriksson apparently brought the cars to Los Angeles when he moved from Britain last year, but the financial institutions that held the titles said his payments had lapsed. Authorities have said the $600,000 Mercedes had been reported stolen to London's Scotland Yard. The Ferrari was worth more than $1 million.

All three cars have been confiscated, and Eriksson, 44, was arrested at his Bel-Air home Saturday, Whitmore said.

He is being held without bail because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement put a hold him, the Los Angeles Times reported Monday.

The Ferrari crash spun into a web of mystery when Eriksson told authorities he was only a passenger in the car and that the driver was a German acquaintance he knew only as Dietrich. He said Dietrich ran into the hills, but a search by deputies turned up no one.

Officials have questioned Eriksson's story, noting that only the driver's side air bag had blood on it and Eriksson had a cut lip. The front of the red Ferrari crumpled when it slammed into a poll on the Pacific Coast Highway on Feb. 21.

Eriksson was an executive with Gizmondo, a European video game company that filed for bankruptcy.

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