editor Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Someone plowed a $2,000,000 Bugatti Veyron into Omega Bay. Nice. http://www.galvestondailynews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=792e1da427373dfb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Yep. Here's the Youtube.http://www.youtube.c...h?v=32yyvmlGOdo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ricco67 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Suddenly, my week doesn't seem so bad! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I love how the tow trucker driver ever so delicately washes his muddy hands in muddy water... before touching the car's leather-wrapped steering wheel (2:40). This video: I also find it hard to believe that a pelican is to blame for this incident... actually... looking at the crash video... I don't see any pelicans even near the car! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Highway6 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 That is painful but hilarious... what are the chances that got caught on video. Unbelievable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 That is painful but hilarious... what are the chances that got caught on video. Unbelievable.The chances are extremely good, read the thread and you can watch it go down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I love how the tow trucker driver ever so delicately washes his muddy hands in muddy water... before touching the car's leather-wrapped steering wheel (2:40). This video: I also find it hard to believe that a pelican is to blame for this incident... actually... looking at the crash video... I don't see any pelicans even near the car! Pretty sure that video eliminates the poor pelican as the culprit. No bird seen in video, plus the car drifts to the right rather than jerks, as the driver claims to have done. I believe the cell phone has now become culprit number one as the cause of this car's demise. Love it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieEric Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Pretty sure that video eliminates the poor pelican as the culprit. No bird seen in video, plus the car drifts to the right rather than jerks, as the driver claims to have done. I believe the cell phone has now become culprit number one as the cause of this car's demise.Love it.I didn't see a pelican, either. Seemed like a rather smooth ride into the water. Still seems odd that someone actually has a video of it...Bugatti or not, that's pretty random!Either way, if you can afford a $2 million car then you probably aren't too shaken up about driving one into the water...well, except for making the news. I wonder how insurance works when you get to a vehicle of that value? I also don't understand why you'd let the engine run submerged until it died Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Pretty sure that video eliminates the poor pelican as the culprit. No bird seen in video, plus the car drifts to the right rather than jerks, as the driver claims to have done. I believe the cell phone has now become culprit number one as the cause of this car's demise.Love it.Actually... looking at the crash video... He appears to simply have missed his turn. He's traveling on the freeway... veers right onto an access road... and then veers right again - into the water. The little jut of land may have confused him. Because just a few seconds later in the video - you see the road you could have turned onto. He probably knows the area, knew he had to make a right turn - but just wasn't watching closely enough.No pelican. No cell phone. JUST A DUMB ARSE. I checked wikipedia to see if there was reference to this humorously tragic incident, surely there would be. There was no mention! So I added an entry. I am no longer a wikipedia virgin!http://en.wikipedia....hicle_IncidentsNotable Vehicle IncidentsOn November 11, 2009, the owner of a 2006 Veyron inadvertently drove his vehicle into a salt water lagoon, near Omega Bay, in La Marque, Texas. The vehicle was submerged in approximately two feet of water before it was retrieved. This particular vehicle was one of only 15 in the United States.[32] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Actually... looking at the crash video... He appears to simply have missed his turn. He's traveling on the freeway... veers right onto an access road... and then veers right again - into the water. The little jut of land may have confused him. Because just a few seconds later in the video - you see the road you could have turned onto. He probably knows the area, knew he had to make a right turn - but just wasn't watching closely enough.No pelican. No cell phone. JUST A DUMB ARSE. We must be looking at different videos. The one I watched, he was on the feeder in the right lane the entire time...until he drifts off the road into the lagoon.The cell phone reference comes from the driver, who claimed his cell phone fell onto the floorboard and he reached to pick it up. He then claims that as he looked back up the pelican swooped in and he jerked to miss it. I think the first part is true, but not the second. I think that when he reached down to pick up the phone, he pulled over to the right slightly and caught the grass. Once that wheel caught the grass, it pulled the vehicle harder to the right and he was unable to correct in time to avoid the water. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 We must be looking at different videos. The one I watched, he was on the feeder in the right lane the entire time...until he drifts off the road into the lagoon.The cell phone reference comes from the driver, who claimed his cell phone fell onto the floorboard and he reached to pick it up. He then claims that as he looked back up the pelican swooped in and he jerked to miss it. I think the first part is true, but not the second. I think that when he reached down to pick up the phone, he pulled over to the right slightly and caught the grass. Once that wheel caught the grass, it pulled the vehicle harder to the right and he was unable to correct in time to avoid the water.There is an approaching on-ramp (making it look like he was veering right - nevermind that)... so yes, he was on the feeder the whole time...The article says:"The man jerked the wheel [after claiming to see a pelican], dropped his cell phone [because he jerked the steering wheel], and the car’s front tire left the frontage road and entered a muddy patch, which foiled his attempt to maneuver away from the lagoon."Where are you getting your details?It still looks like a controlled, smooth turn, right into the water. He might have been distracted by the cell phone conversation he was having... enough to make him think he was about to turn onto solid land vs. water.My favorite part:"A Daily News reporter arrived at the scene about 15 minutes after the car entered the water just in time to see the gurgling exhaust stop bubbling like an outboard motor as the 1001 horsepower engine died." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedScare Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Sorry, I got it from the Chronicle version.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6718117.htmlFrankly, I kinda doubt that the phone suddenly slipped off the center console, either, but giving the guy the benefit of the doubt, if he reached for the floorboard while still holding the steering wheel, he could have inadvertantly pulled it to the right. But, the pelican story is still bogus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
musicman Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 i missed the supposed pelican too. he just drove off the feeder into the agua. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 On I-45? More like I-FortyFAIL for him. Lame, I know. I remember when these cars first came out, they said they wouldn't sell them to rappers because that wasn't the image Bugatti wanted. I guess they want the image of bad drivers who plow in saltwater instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I am beginning to think this might be fraud?"Andy Lee House" ... of Lufkin, TX.Lufkin is in Angelina county.According to tax records... Mr. House owns two proprieties:A home built in 2003 valued at 147K.A commercial building of some sort, 1200 sq ft and 1600 sq ft on .72 acres valued at 48K.Yet, he was the driver and owner of a 1.25 to $2 million automobile?How does a 34 year old who lives in Lufkin, TX, who lives in a modest 147K home, come up with that kind of money for a car? Or... maybe he bought the car when the economy was good, but needs to sell it... except, the economy is bad... and well... it is insured.Problems with the storyThe pelican was a lie.He's 34.He's from Lufkin.Arnold Schwarzenegger called him to console him on the loss (per the truck driver - who knows).Drove off the road in a fairly controlled manner.Intentionally left the engine running - for 15 minutes - until the car died.Was completely calm after the event....and it just so happens that two guys with a camera got a picture perfect video capture of the event. And just so happened to catch a 1 in 15 type of car, driving down the road - just moments before it went into the water. Does he know these men?His company web site: http://www.performan...ld.com/about_us"The leader in salvage rebuilders"Really? Hmmm... Let's see... the insurance company totals out the car, paying you the value of the vehicle before the wreck... you can buy it back from them for salvage (maybe 20K?) - fix it up... and then resell $$$$. Double dip!Something doesn't add up here...Or maybe he just drove off the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 I was thinking maybe he was noticing the people with the video camera and gloating. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TJones Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Let's see here. I got a $1.4 million car I can't pay for anymore. I need to downgrade for that Enzo I have had my eye on. Hmmmmm, look at all that ugly brown water. That would RUIN this car. Time to see just how good my GEICO insurance really is. Wait............is that the googley eyed stack of money taking video of me to my left ? *SPLASH* !!!I feel the investigation on this one is gonna get weird. Perhaps the Bugatti is a rental. Perhaps this was an episode of Jackass ? Something just isn't adding up.Bryan.....just saw your website link for Mr.House. He is TOAST ! Unless the Bugatti was already had a salvaged title from a previous mishap? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OkieEric Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 This is definitely very fishy now that we have a name... Publicity stunt, perhaps? Guy with a high end auto salvage business wrecks a Bugatti into saltwater, on video, and (of course) makes national news? Seems too obvious for insurance fraud, lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLWM8609 Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 A home built in 2003 valued at 147K.A commercial building of some sort, 1200 sq ft and 1600 sq ft on .72 acres valued at 48K.Yet, he was the driver and owner of a 1.25 to $2 million automobile?How does a 34 year old who lives in Lufkin, TX, who lives in a modest 147K home, come up with that kind of money for a car?Not all rich folks need to live in $500,000+ Egg MacMegaMansions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UrbaNerd Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 This is definitely very fishy now that we have a name... Publicity stunt, perhaps? Guy with a high end auto salvage business wrecks a Bugatti into saltwater, on video, and (of course) makes national news? Seems too obvious for insurance fraud, lolMaybe he's in cahoots with balloon boy's dad. After all, THAT seemed too obvious to be a fraud as well! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Not all rich folks need to live in $500,000+ Egg MacMegaMansions.Yeah, they're called the modest wealthy. I'd be willing to bet that the typical person wanting to drive around a $2 million dollar car isn't on e of those. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Yeah, they're called the modest wealthy. I'd be willing to bet that the typical person wanting to drive around a $2 million dollar car isn't one of those.Agreed, they're not....and a typical person, with the kind of lifestyle that is demanded by having such a car... would never have any reason to be in La Marque, TX, either.Unless, perhaps, you are from East Texas, put up your entire business as collateral for an exotic car loan (which if you look at his combined "junk" inventory - he might be able to approach/scam $1M)... and have to make monthly payments... which you cannot afford.His web site: "OVERSEAS BUYERS ARE WELCOME!" ... yea... so you can RIP THEM OFF selling them totaled cars you've remade with your blow torch and welding machine, EastTex style.But I won't jump to conclusions. He may have just driven off the road, accidentally... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanS Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Let's see here. I got a $1.4 million car I can't pay for anymore. I need to downgrade for that Enzo I have had my eye on. Hmmmmm, look at all that ugly brown water. That would RUIN this car. Time to see just how good my GEICO insurance really is. Wait............is that the googley eyed stack of money taking video of me to my left ? *SPLASH* !!!I feel the investigation on this one is gonna get weird. Perhaps the Bugatti is a rental. Perhaps this was an episode of Jackass ? Something just isn't adding up.Bryan.....just saw your website link for Mr.House. He is TOAST ! Unless the Bugatti was already had a salvaged title from a previous mishap?It was believed to be purchased for $1.25M from an Arkansas dealer. These cars don't belong in Arkansas or East Texas. Who knows what the actual title history is... given where this unfortunate car has been. I can't see anyone with any real serious money and sense for these types of cars ever buying one from any place in Arkansas. And certainly not East Texas. Something is up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
citizen4rmptown Posted November 14, 2009 Share Posted November 14, 2009 Wow, when Fox 26 reported this became a youtube sensation, i didnt believe it but it has almost 235,000 views, which is a lot. But isnt that video only the towing? Almost a quarter of a million views for a towing vs the actual crash video only getting nearly 100,000 views? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevfiv Posted January 20, 2010 Share Posted January 20, 2010 HmmLUFKIN — A Texan who last year accidentally turned his Bugatti Veyron into a swamp buggy has bought another of the rare million-dollar cars.Andy House of Lufkin says he has purchased a 2008 Bugatti Veyron and will put it up for sale.http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6825886.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kylejack Posted January 21, 2010 Share Posted January 21, 2010 He's flipping it? Well, he has some experience with that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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