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Darwin Award contender (breaks his Enzo in half)
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Posted by: Mr. P

Here a Cal Trans worker pours sand on the oil around the engine of the million dollar Enzo, note the front part of the car off in the distance.

The engine ended up in the middle of the road, sheesh!

Took out at least one pole along the way, no telling how high off the ground the car was when it hit the pole.

Apparently there were two people in this car, both apparently survived. The owner claims he was a passenger, lol, but nobody seems to know where the driver is??

And here’s the lucky boy, Swedish millionaire Stefan Eriksson, 44, of Bel-Air, talks to a deputy after his Ferrari crashed.

And there he goes, walking to the ambulance? Bruised egos and bank accounts can make your legs weak.

Get a load of this story too, ha ha. The guy claims he was a passenger, har har, but I bet they'll bring in a forensic expert and find he soiled the seat on the drivers side, ha ha.

Look at this dude, he's out at 6AM in a pajamas outfit, or is that a smoking jacket, hell I'm from Tennessee and I don't think I'd want to be caught dead out in public dressed like that, ha ha. And look at that frigging GOLD WATCH blinding the camera. Maybe this idiot ought to do some time in the state pen??? No sympathy here. Hmmmm, that Mercedes he was racing must have been a fast one, eh? Whoever that driver is, he's keeping quiet, with good reason.

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Stefan Eriksson, whose $1-million car was totaled in Malibu, had been a top executive of a video game system maker that flamed out.
By Richard Winton and David Pierson, Times Staff Writers
February 23 2006

Stefan Eriksson had hoped that millions of video gamers would experience the thrill of street racing on a hand-held device he helped develop. But then Eriksson's $1-million Ferrari was totaled, an accident that gamers around the world may see as a cruel metaphor for the collapse of the portable console company.

Eriksson was a top executive for Gizmondo, a European video game system maker that two years ago garnered international headlines by challenging Sony and Nintendo with its own PSP-like device.

Eriksson received a $100,000 car allowance from the firm, according to records from the Securities and Exchange Commission, and drove in Le Mans, the famous French motor race, in a Ferrari plastered with Gizmondo signs.

The game company launched last year with a gala in London that included a performance by the pop star Sting. One of the firm's games, Chicane, involved exotic car racing.

But on the eve of Gizmondo's U.S. launch last fall, Eriksson resigned from the firm while in Los Angeles to market the device. His resignation came days before a Swedish newspaper alleged that Eriksson had been convicted of counterfeiting in the Scandinavian country in the early 1990s.

The company quickly collapsed, unable to sell enough devices to justify to game makers that they should supply more titles for the Gizmondo format. Loans could not be repaid, and the company incurred net losses exceeding $100 million, according to the SEC records.

The company's name is now a synonym for hubris in the game world, which was enrapt Wednesday with the news that Eriksson's lavish Italian sports car had been wrecked.

"The Gizmondo was bad enough but now this?" wrote one reader on the electronic game website gamespot.com.

"And you wonder why they went bankrupt," another gamer wrote.

Eriksson, 44, declined to be interviewed Wednesday, according to a security officer posted in front of his gated Bel-Air mansion.

But he had told authorities that he was a passenger in the car driven by a mysterious German man whom he knew only as Dietrich when the Ferrari Enzo lost control and crashed Tuesday on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu. He said Dietrich fled on foot up a canyon and disappeared.

But detectives are skeptical of that explanation and said Wednesday that they were going to re-interview Eriksson. Witnesses told detectives the Ferrari was drag racing with a Mercedes-Benz SLR.

"His story has inconsistencies that need to be cleared up," Sheriff's Sgt. Phillip Brooks said.

The investigation has also centered on exactly how the Enzo got into the United States and how Eriksson came to possess it, Brooks said.

"We have quite a few new leads on that," Brooks said, but he declined to elaborate.

The crash occurred about 6 a.m. west of Decker Road when the Ferrari, traveling at 120 mph in the northbound lane, crested a hill and slammed into a power pole.

The car split in two, sending the engine flying and creating a 1,200-foot trail of debris, sheriff's deputies said.

The power pole was snapped about halfway up and suspended by power lines like a half-chopped corn stalk.

The Enzo is one of the most exclusive cars in the world, with only 400 ever made. Eriksson, who suffered only a bloody face and was seen walking about after the crash, was probably saved by the car's tough carbon composite compartment and seat that were designed to keep occupants in place. The compartment is also designed to absorb the impact of a crash to protect the occupants.

The accident comes amid a tough period for Gizmondo. This fall, a court in London ordered its parent company, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based Tiger Telematics, to liquidate its assets in Europe. Calls to Tiger Telematics were not returned.

Posted by: The OLE MAN

Only in California.....................

Never ceases to amaze me

The OLE MAN

Posted by: MikeT

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Originally Posted by The OLE MAN


	Never ceases to amaze me

So that was YOU he was racing? I guess you won eh.

Posted by: Mr. P

8-Ball in the side pocket, lol

What a DORKWOOD !

No I wasn't the guy he was racing. I'm kind of glad I wasn't, because the dumb SOB may have taken me out with his car.

Dorkwood Alert !!!!

Dorkwood Alert !!!!

Dorkwood Alert !!!!

Dorkwood Alert !!!!

Posted by: The OLE MAN

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Originally Posted by MikeT


	So that was YOU he was racing? I guess you won eh.

I don't think so................ Don't travel up around PCH much in that area. To many RICH PRICKS............... who can't drive the car they have the money to buy, butt, not the brians to go with it.

The OLE MAN

Posted by: Grape Ape

I think it's safe to say that one's totalled. :biods:

399 to go... or something' like that. Does that mean the value on the rest increases?

Posted by: skeezix

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Originally Posted by The OLE MAN


	I don't think so................ Don't travel up around PCH much in that area. To many RICH PRICKS............... who can't drive the car they have the money to buy, butt, not the brians to go with it. The OLE MAN

Yeah, but that'd be too funny tho' ole man. Seeing a half-million dollar euro-bomb getting wasted by a mid-60's big block plymouth!

Posted by: Grape Ape

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Originally Posted by skeezix


	Yeah, but that'd be too funny tho' ole man. Seeing a half-million dollar euro-bomb getting wasted by a mid-60's big block plymouth!

Not to knock the Ole Man's ride but... If you're starting from 60+mph and the Ferarri(or SLR) doesn't crash, that old Plymouth will get SMOKED on a long straight or windy road.

Heck, they're all over the thing from ZERO, let alone high speed, where either will see at least near 200mph. That's part of why they cost so darned much. It's also part of why we LOL when we see one totally destroyed.

Posted by: Mr. P

In the right hands, that will buff out.

lol

Mr. P

Posted by: LS1JAY

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Originally Posted by Mr. P


	In the right hands, that will buff out. lol Mr. P

Along with a little bondo and a wheel alignment!

Posted by: No Rice Allowed

Why didn't he cut out the middle man and buy an ambulance?

Posted by: Grape Ape

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Originally Posted by No Rice Allowed


	Why didn't he cut out the middle man and buy an ambulance?

Posted by: The OLE MAN

Quote:

Originally Posted by Grape Ape


	Not to knock the Ole Man's ride but... If you're starting from 60+mph and the Ferarri(or SLR) doesn't crash, that old Plymouth will get SMOKED on a long straight or windy road. Heck, they're all over the thing from ZERO, let alone high speed, where either will see at least near 200mph. That's part of why they cost so darned much. It's also part of why we LOL when we see one totally destroyed.

Hey GRAPE,

I agree........ not alot of top end on the OLE PLYMOUTH. Runs out of air at about 125 or so. Not what it was built for. It would however SMOKE him in the first 1/8th maybe even 1/4 mile. Either way, I'd give it a go

The OLE MAN

Posted by: GMR

Here another one.....

Guy buys Ford GT, after only 2 days in his possesion and 9 miles on the odometer, guy slams it into a pole. He should of bought some driving skill along with that car eh.

LS

Heres another one I witnessed myself yesterday(I wish I had my camera on me). Driving down a residential street after a class, I see cops blocking off the road Im driving on. As I drive by, I see a Caddy XLR-V halfway into a brick fence of a home. Guess the 440 HP was a little much for the old guy driving it.

LS

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