Saturday, November 14, 2009

Ah, Yes. The Old "A Pelican Distracted Me" Story

Police on Friday identified a Lufkin man who accidentally drove a $2 million Bugatti Veyron, a rare automobile that is perhaps the world’s fastest, into a saltwater lagoon [off Galveston Island].

Andy Lee House, 34, owner of Performance Auto Sales, told The Daily News on Wednesday that a low-flying pelican distracted him, causing him to jerk the steering wheel a bit — and he then dropped his cell phone.

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The crash, however, was captured by someone filming the car as it traveled on the northbound frontage road of Interstate 45 about 3 p.m. Wednesday.

The man filming was traveling north on I-45. No pelican was visible in the video, which shows the car veering from the road and splashing in the lagoon.

  Galveston County Daily News

Actually, he only mentioned the pelican to the police, not the cell phone.


....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.


3 comments:

  1. The pelican distracted him by calling him on his cell phone. Obviously.

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  2. we do have clever pelicans here.

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  3. i wonder how long it will sit on his car lot with the sign: deal of the century: barely used bugatti, slight exposure to salt water.

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