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Ferrari Enzo "Accident" Goes to Trial

10/24/2006 9:44 AM

Ah, one of my favorite stories of the year has resurfaced. I've been chronicling the tale of Bo Eriksson and the destruction of a $1 million dollar Ferrari Enzo that he may or may not have owned.

For those who aren't up-to-date, the basic story is as follows (from a previous post of mine from early March):, ..."an ultra rare Ferrari Enzo was destroyed in an alcohol fueled racing accident on the Pacific Coast Highway outside of Malibu. The $1 million dollar Enzo, one of only 400 in existence, is believed to have been traveling at over 160 MPH, when it went airborne, crashed into a power pole and split in half. Amazingly, the (possible) owner and (possible) driver (you really have to read the story and watch the video news report) walked away with very minor injuries."

Eriksson, once the head of video game developer Gizmondo Europe, is on trial for the accident and embezzlement related to $4 million dollars worth of stolen sports cars.

Maybe we'll get all the questions answered, like:

Who is Dietrich? (or more to the point, was there a Dietrich?)
Who was driving?
Was there another car?
Were they actually going 160 MPH?
How could you be so freakin stupid to destroy a beautiful car like that?

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Re: Ferrari Enzo "Accident" Goes to Trial

10/24/2006 12:24 PM

"Wired" magazine recently had an article about this story and it is tangled and ugly.

Once interesting issue it raised: these guys got the right to be their own legal "police force" by convincing a tiny bus company to let them be their security team (like a campus police force). This in turn gave them an official affiliation (of sorts) with Homeland Security; they bought/forced their way into DHS status so easily that we should all be worried.

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10/25/2006 3:08 AM

Forgetting the legal wrangles for a minute, how do you crash a Ferrari? I've had the pleasure of driving one (Mmmmmmmm) and being a passenger in one around a race track (petrol head heaven!) One thing I can guarantee is that the level of road holding these things have makes them quite hard to crash.

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Re: Ferrari Enzo "Accident" Goes to Trial

02/15/2007 5:00 AM

Like this:

Nothing is impossible....

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10/25/2006 1:25 PM

I would imagine it is easy to crash one when one is drunk!!! He exceeded his ability to control the vehicle...even though the ability of the car is in question as well....it seems the car lost it's grip and went airborne....

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