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Swedish businessman pleads not guilty in LA ~ Crashed Ferrari ~ bail set at $5.5 million
CBS2 ^
| April 17, 2006
| CHRISTINA ALMEIDA
Associated Press Writer
Posted on 04/17/2006 11:26:00 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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To: BurbankKarl; bd476; Brad's Gramma
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Having 'stolen' Enzo Ferraris and Mercedes-McLaren SLR is like having a neon calling card chasing your hind end. Although it must have been good while it lasted.
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posted on
04/17/2006 11:44:18 PM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Before crash pic and link to interesting site ... ;-)
Ferrari Enzo
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posted on
04/17/2006 11:49:17 PM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I've been following this - and watch way too many spy shows, so my imagination goes wild on this one. I have noticed the fake homeland security badges are not being reported in the follow up stories.
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posted on
04/17/2006 11:52:26 PM PDT
by
justche
("Art,, like morality, consists of drawing a line somewhere." G. K. Chesterton)
To: justche; Tunehead54; spetznaz
What I want to know...... how do you survive a crash on a public road at 160+ miles per hour?
He did have a cut lip...
To: All
Maybe this is the answer.
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Don't drunk people usually survive car crashes?
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posted on
04/18/2006 12:13:49 AM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(A nation without borders is not a nation." --President Reagan)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
You can thank the amazing build structure of current supercars. Those things will take amazing damage in a crash, but the 'cockpit' (and in many ways it is one) will be largely untouched. The way modern sportscars, especially the supercars, are built is really amazing. A Bugatti could probably protect its driver at 190mph better than a Corvette could at 90, then again you are paying over 1.1 million dollars more for the Bugatti Veyron than you would for the 2006 C6 Corvette. The makers of such cars have a vested interest in keeping their clients whole and hearty.
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posted on
04/18/2006 12:14:21 AM PDT
by
spetznaz
(Nuclear-tipped Ballistic Missiles: The Ultimate Phallic Symbol)
To: Pro-Bush
"Don't drunk people usually survive car crashes?" Yes, but not at 162 MPH.
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posted on
04/18/2006 12:26:50 AM PDT
by
skimask
(People who care what you do don't matter.......People who matter don't care what you do.)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yes that is it
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posted on
04/18/2006 12:27:23 AM PDT
by
RunningWolf
(Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
To: skimask
True. I remember Ferrari touting there engineering, design, etc. to the survival to this Swede!
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posted on
04/18/2006 12:47:15 AM PDT
by
Pro-Bush
(A nation without borders is not a nation." --President Reagan)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I know someone that survived a crash on a public road at 170 mph and it was on a motorcycle, the Suzuki Hayabusa. This was the summer of 2004.
I saw him at the hospital about 30 hours after it happened. He was in a coma and it looked like he would not make it. Then it looked like he would be brain damaged forever, he could not remember anything for more than 30 seconds. But after a few weeks he started coming around.
I went and saw the crash site. He had failed to negotiate a uphill turn at that speed and left the road, his crash path paralleled an exit lane leading up to a T stop. The length of the crash path was 270ft/approx> It was all in grass etc., although the first part of the path went thru the carved ravine off the freeway shoulder.
You could see where the front wheel exploded and the forks gouged in, then about every 35 ft or so the turf would be torn up where the tumbling bike impacted, ending finally with one long gouge.
Fortunately no one else was hurt.
What was left of the machine looked like a crumpled up soda can.
W.
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posted on
04/18/2006 12:51:26 AM PDT
by
RunningWolf
(Vet US Army Air Cav 1975)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
Sometimes I wonder why I bother ... ;-)
From the link:
Chassis
The chassis was built entirely of carbon fibre and aluminium honeycomb sandwich panels, which made it possible to meet demands for outstanding rigidity, lightness and safety.
As noted its an interesting link. ;-)
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posted on
04/18/2006 1:16:14 AM PDT
by
Tunehead54
(Nothing funny here ;-)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach; SmithL
To: martin_fierro
To: RunningWolf
"I know someone that survived a crash on a public road at 170 mph and it was on a motorcycle, the Suzuki Hayabusa. This was the summer of 2004."
I screwed my Ducati into the center of the Earth at 155 mph in
Pocono's a few years back.
looked like a yard sale.
Not fun.
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posted on
04/18/2006 2:35:11 AM PDT
by
taxed2death
(A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
To: taxed2death
To: Pro-Bush
Dietrich not only survived, but ran up a hill and evaded authorities too!
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posted on
04/18/2006 4:48:17 AM PDT
by
RazzPutin
("You have told us more than you can possibly know." -- Niels Bohr)
To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
I can't imagine going 162 mph on PCH, which is usually choked with traffic.
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