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I smell insurance fraud. No pelican, survivable "crash", left engine running for 15 minutes until it died on its own to properly corrode all the expensive bits.
I'm just curious in a $1.5 Million dollar car which bits would be the cheap bits as opposed to the expensive ones.
Not a big fan of the Veyron's body style, personally think its a butt ugly car, but that W16 engine is awesome.
Back to a 2009 thread with that ^^ trial update from 2012...
Latest from Jalopnik.com: the pelican was framed!
Originally Posted by bbs993tt
I smell insurance fraud. No pelican, survivable "crash", left engine running for 15 minutes until it died on its own to properly corrode all the expensive bits.
Kudos to Brian: he called it ^^ , & to Jason for the tip.
House purchased the Veyron in 2009 for $1 million and subsequently had it insured for $2.2 million. On November 11 of that year, he drove the Bugatti into Gulf Bay outside of La Marque, Texas, to avoid a low flying pelican. Unfortunately for House, the crash was caught on video with no sign of aviary intervention.
House later claimed that he dropped his phone, causing him to lose control, but according to information presented in court, House purposefully ran the Veyron into the water and left the motor running, resulting in a total loss of the supercar.
Philadelphia Insurance later sued Mr. House for insurance fraud, and the lawsuit also claimed he attempted to bribe someone to steal the car and torch it to collect the insurance money. The fraud trial was postponed in October of 2012 for unknown reasons.
Today's guilty plea by House has him facing up to 20 years in federal prison, although a sentencing date hasn't been set.
Finally after all these years that poor innocent pelican is off the hook.
11-27-2009, 12:35 AM
The truth is out there:
, & to Jason for the tip.
