Veyron Crashes into Lake!!

peterattheboro · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:01

An American Bugatti Veyron owner has proved that the world's fastest supercar does not make an effective speedboat, after driving his hypercar into a sal****er lagoon near Galveston in Texas.

The owner (who apparently wished to remain anonymous - surprise, surprise) was distracted by a low-flying Pelican (we hate it when that happens) as he was heading north on Interstate 45.

As a result, the hapless fellow jerked the wheel, dropped his mobile and the car veered onto the muddy verge before plunging into the lagoon and coming to rest in approximately two feet of salty water.

The car's engine then ran for a quarter of an hour before finally dying. The man escaped with no injuries except those to his pride and, if you look at the state of the car in the video (below) after it has been removed from the water, his wallet.

I don't think gutted is the word! :eek:

Dup · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:04

hahahaha. Driver sounds like a plonker anyway.

NVP · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:04

This just makes me want to cry

TaKeN · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:05

Why did he leave the engine running? Retard.

floatindolphin · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:06

couple of hours in the airing cupboard and it'll be fine

Princey · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:07

Twonk.

flat-6 · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:10

And this is why he probably paid $50k insurance premium.

Maccy · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:10

What a fool.

Pixel · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:15

Sal****er Lagoon.

Matt82 · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:26

given the cars were all sold at a huge loss, making the sum value in parts more than the value of cars, surely the car is an instant write off in a condition like that

neoboy · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:32

I always laugh when someone with more money than sense crashes their uber expensive car, I guess I'm just evil

shauncr91 · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:44

That'll T-Cut out.

britboy4321 · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:47

I also simply can not understand why he left the engine going. If I did this, in under a second the engine would be turned off.

After that I would be getting the car dragged out of the lake as quickly as humanly possible -- even it it involved giving a farmer £200 to do it using his tractor as thats quicker than waiting for 2 hours for an official truck with winch to do it ...

If he got all that done within 30 minutes -- and then left it in a dry garage with a heater on for a week .. then paid £150 for a nice top-of-the-line valet .. I bet you'd never even know the car was in the lake at all ..

The damp only really risks rotting some parts of the interior ... what he did was nowhere NEAR as bad as hitting anything solid ....

shauncr91 · 12 Nov 2009 at 14:50

britboy4321 said:
If he got all that done within 30 minutes -- and then left it in a dry garage with a heater on for a week .. then paid £150 for a nice top-of-the-line valet .. I bet you'd never even know the car was in the lake at all ..

I'm pretty sure you would

IAmATeaf · 12 Nov 2009 at 15:00

So did the plonker drive around the lake for a quarter of a mile then?

Also is the handbrake on when they're winching it out or is the fish hook they've fixed to the rear axle stopping the wheels from turning when it's being winched out?

Dr Who · 12 Nov 2009 at 15:01

Pixel said:
Sal****er Lagoon.

Unsophisticated censor is unsophisticated

MikeHiow · 12 Nov 2009 at 15:23

IAmATeaf said:
So did the plonker drive around the lake for a quarter of a mile then?

Also is the handbrake on when they're winching it out or is the fish hook they've fixed to the rear axle stopping the wheels from turning when it's being winched out?

As far as I can see, they've got it hooked around the back wheels :eek:

Vampire · 12 Nov 2009 at 16:41

Pixel said:
Sal****er Lagoon.

Heh

I wonder if it was near S****horpe?

Gaygle · 12 Nov 2009 at 16:45

Ninja pelican? That's a new one.

Skiddley · 12 Nov 2009 at 16:51

Jesus...chain around an alloy, rubbing against the rear bumper. What a bunch of cowboys :\