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Every now and then, I’ll do a little bit of a cautionary tale on the blog, especially if it’s about something I have a real issue with. And today’s story is a prime example, because it’s about a real bugbear of mine; i.e. people who use their phones without a handsfree kit, while they’re driving. It really gets on my nerves, not least because I’ve nearly been wiped out twice by people doing that. However, today’s story is particularly sad, for car lovers, because according to IntoMobile, the Texan driver in question tanked his own car.
That doesn’t seem massively newsworthy, unless the car in question has a 987bhp engine, has a top speed of 253mph, costs £900,000, and is, simply, the world’s most awesome car.
Yep, as you can tell from the pic on this post, he tanked a Bugatti Veyron. Oh dear lord, that takes muppetry to an entirely new level.
Now, I appreciate that it might just be me who thinks this, but surely, if your car is worth, and I think this bears repeating, NINE-HUNDRED THOUSAND POUNDS, then surely you’d be a teeny bit careful when driving it, and not reach down to pick up your mobile phone that you’d just dropped? Call me old fashioned, but I tend to think that not having the phone to my ear in the first place, which would then lead to me dropping it and having to retrieve it, would be a better option than driving my £900,000 supercar into a lake…
For anyone not immediately au fait with the Bugatti Veyron, it, like the HTC HD2, is the most awesomely brilliant example of its species. Or, as Top Gear memorably put it, this car is our Concorde moment. Seeing one driven into a lake is therefore quite sad.
Now, there are two bits about this story that particularly gall me. One is the fact the driver claimed a low flying pelican had startled him, causing him to drop the phone. The doesn’t change the fact that: 1/ it was daft to have been using it in the first place; and 2/ er, he could’ve pulled over to pick it up. This is made even more annoying due to one other fact: er, doesn’t the Bugatti Veyron have built-in Bluetooth? And if he didn’t get it as an extra, possibly assuming he would never need it, because he’s that good a driver, then it takes the muppetry levels even higher.
Luckily for all of us in the real world, who can’t afford to drive £900,000 supercars, one lucky car full of people had their camera phones at the ready, and grabbed video of it happening (and yes, it was the passenger doing the recording, not the driver), so we can marvel at the spectacle (be warned, there is swearing in this video. If that at all offends you, do not watch it):
Utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, utter, UTTER pillock! And no, for the man doing the recording, it’s not a Lambo. But since Lamborghini and Bugatti are both owned by Volkswagen (weeeell, Lambo’s owned by Audi, part of the Volkswagen group), I’ll let you off. But don’t do it again…
So, anyway, yes. Let this be an object lesson in what I have said all along. If you use your phone, without a handsfree kit, while you’re driving (not least because it’s illegal, for a good reason, although apparently not illegal in Texas), you are very silly. I’ll say very silly, there, because it stops me from saying what I really think, which’d get this blog banned from the internet forever…
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