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Dumbass Award
« on: December 21, 2011, 11:31:08 PM »
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2011, 01:01:20 AM »
It says he plans to sell it to pay off bills & get his wife another car.
Now I wonder how much he might get for a slightly used, wrecked & repaired Lamborghini?
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 01:21:59 AM »
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Now I wonder how much he might get for a slightly used, wrecked & repaired Lamborghini?

He could probably buy his wife a new car and get a new house for the cost of the repairs. Numbnuts.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 01:40:11 AM »
So, he gets to pay a massive income tax bill on a car that now has to be repaired before it is even driveable?  :facepalm:
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2011, 01:45:42 AM »
It's not quite the same thing, but I wanted a Jag XKE ever since they came out in '61. In 1969, one of the kids from the wealthy part of our suburb got a new XKE for graduation. He got drunk and wrapped it around a tree within a week.

I hated that kid.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2011, 08:43:45 AM »
Fed taxes on a $380,000 Lambo will probably be something over $100k - and he's going to have to pay them on the new-car value; it's probably irrelevant to the taxman that he banged it up a couple of hours later. (He thinks a holed oil pan and a few wrinkled fenders will be cheap to repair . . . on a Lamborghini? Done right, I'll guess at a minumum it will run well into 5 figures. Wonder if he had arranged for insurance . . . )

Had I won the car, I would've tried to provide for its sale before I took delivery.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #6 on: December 22, 2011, 09:51:04 AM »
Quote from: HankB on December 22, 2011, 08:43:45 AM
Had I won the car, I would've tried to provide for its sale before I took delivery.

True dat.  This story reminds me of the depressingly common stories in our local media: young service member returns from sea or land deployment, goes to local motorcycle dealer and buys a 1-2 liter sportbike, having never ridden before, and wraps it around a light pole about two miles away from the dealer.  This is why all of our local military commands have started requiring completion of a MSF course before you can ride your bike onto base.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #7 on: December 22, 2011, 10:33:16 AM »
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He said he was taking friends and family on joy rides that evening on the outskirts of town. He said he took a curve at 40 or 50 mph when the vehicle hit ice or loose gravel and started spinning.

Given this vehicle's stellar reputation for handling, this guy was plain stoopid.
What a tool!
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #8 on: December 22, 2011, 12:06:19 PM »
Wait. All this time I've gone unrecognized, and there's an award for being dumb?

I've been working pro bonehead.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #9 on: December 22, 2011, 12:27:37 PM »
Quote from: fistful on December 22, 2011, 12:06:19 PM
pro bonehead.

That just means you're getting paid for it.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #10 on: December 22, 2011, 09:32:28 PM »
Hey! Lighten up! After all, a lambo handles a little diferently than an F-250 w/12" lift & mudders!
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #11 on: December 22, 2011, 10:23:03 PM »
Especially with Italian nitrogen in the tires.  One might have blown up.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #12 on: December 22, 2011, 10:58:50 PM »
Quote from: Lee on December 22, 2011, 10:23:03 PM
Especially with Italian nitrogen in the tires.  One might have blown up.

I thought it was German nitrogen.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #13 on: December 22, 2011, 11:33:03 PM »
German nitrogen is heavier. Everything German is heavier because of the beer.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #14 on: December 23, 2011, 12:07:15 AM »
Quote from: Monkeyleg on December 22, 2011, 11:33:03 PM
German nitrogen is heavier. Everything German is heavier because of the beer.

Germans put beer in their nitrogen??   [tinfoil] :O
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #15 on: December 23, 2011, 12:14:31 AM »
Quote from: TommyGunn on December 23, 2011, 12:07:15 AM
Germans put beer in their nitrogen??   [tinfoil] :O

Well, the Irish put nitrogen in their beer...
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #16 on: December 23, 2011, 09:14:18 AM »
IMO, he is a dumbass for not setting up the sale before he even took ownership.  You could buy 2 or 3 really nicely decked out new cars and a house for the price of that thing.  

However, there was this little tidbit.  
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The vehicle is insured.
If it is fully insured, he might come out of this okay.  I was wondering about insurance when I started reading the thread.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #17 on: December 23, 2011, 01:47:38 PM »
Quote from: Jamie B on December 22, 2011, 10:33:16 AM
Given this vehicle's stellar reputation for handling, this guy was plain stoopid.
What a tool!

No gravel, he stepped on the gas in the turn. All well and good as long as you know what 600hp and RWD is going to do when you gas it up with the car out of line. He found out.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #18 on: December 23, 2011, 02:41:31 PM »
Quote from: French G. on December 23, 2011, 01:47:38 PM
No gravel, he stepped on the gas in the turn. All well and good as long as you know what 600hp and RWD is going to do when you gas it up with the car out of line. He found out.
Sounds like that is the kind of performance car you really need some training on before you take it on the road.  Sort of like some of those motorcycles.
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #19 on: December 23, 2011, 06:35:35 PM »
Fortunately for him, the article says "The vehicle is insured."
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Re: Dumbass Award
« Reply #20 on: December 24, 2011, 12:45:00 PM »
Quote from: BryanP on December 23, 2011, 06:35:35 PM
Fortunately for him, the article says "The vehicle is insured."

I'd guess that the annual premium could buy you a pretty nice car.
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