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2009/11/13-30 [Consumer/CellPhone] UID:53524 Activity:nil

11/13   "Man distracted by bird drives Bugatti into marsh"
        http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugatti
        Holding a cell phone while driving.  Yup, he deserves this.  I wonder
        if holding a cell phone while driving is illegal in TX.
        \_ "Who's the U-Boat commander?"

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news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091113/ap_on_fe_st/us_odd_lagoon_bugattiAP 2 hrs 47 mins ago LA MARQUE, Texas - A man blamed a low-flying pelican and a dropped cell phone for his veering his million-dollar sports car off a road and into a salt marsh near Galveston. The accident happened about 3 pm Wednesday on the frontage road of Interstate 45 northbound in La Marque, about 35 miles southeast of Houston. The Lufkin, Texas, man told of driving his luxury, French-built Bugatti Veyron when the bird distracted him, said La Marque police Lt. The motorist dropped his cell phone, reached to pick it up and veered off the road and into the salt marsh. The car was half-submerged in the brine about 20 feet from the road when police arrived. Gilchrist said he doesn't know if the car was salvageable, but in his words, "Salt water isn't good for anything." He says the man, whose identity hasn't been released, was not injured. The information contained in the AP News report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without the prior written authority of The Associated Press.