For all of you who live outside Houston and didn’t see this on the front page of the local daily, a local rich guy drove a $1.5 million Bugatti Veyron off the road the other day. Initially blaming the crash on a low-flying pelican and, later, his cell phone, the driver plowed into a lagoon alongside the I-45 where salt water quickly worked its way through the 16-cylinder, 1,001-horsepower engine that helps make the Veyron the fastest car in the world.
Even more remarkable, the owner of the purchased toy repairs wrecked exotic cars for a living.
This has my vote for the “Hey, Mable!” story (as we endangered newspaper types call them) of the year.
