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WHEW! Just a Ferrari!

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Could have been an MG!
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A Fort Smith family had their home remodeled, unintentionally, after a pickup truck landed in their garage on top of a 2000 Ferrari.

The accident happened just before four Sunday evening on Jenny Lind Road in Fianna Hills. According to the police report, the teenage driver reached for a cell phone and ran off the road and became airborne. He caused about two hundred thousand dollars worth of damage to the garage, the Ferrari, a PT Cruiser as well as 2 motorcycles.

The speed limit is posted at 30 miles per hour, but the owner of the damaged home as well as neighbors say there have been plenty of problems in the past. It's been nonstop traffic for the neighborhood with a steady stream of cars driving by to get a view of a flattened Ferrari and devastated garage.

Owner Steve Marts wasn't home at the time of the accident, but got the bad news over the phone. "I was just numb, just real numb," Marts said.
 
Whew.... that coulda been an LBC... that was close
 
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damage to the garage, the Ferrari, a PT Cruiser as well as 2 motorcycles.

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PTC must've been parked in the ferrari's glove box.
 
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Man,I hate it when someone runs into my Ferrari!

- Doug

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Yeah, boy if I had a nickle for every time that's happened to me...I'd still be broke /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cryin.gif
 
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jaybird, at least he missed the beer cooler! (lower left). /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/grin.gif

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Nah, that's just where the Kid in the truck carefully placed it before the police arrived
 
That just goes to show... if you aren't at home, you should be IN your ferrari!
 
If that were here and I lost that kind of property the "kid" would be a "ward of the state" and Mommy and Daddy wouldn't be able to make the "monthlies" for a LOOOONG time. Oh, and I'd have another piece of real-estate in my name. That is about as blatant an example of irresponsibility (individual and parental) as I've seen in a while. He should have been in nothing more advanced/powerful than a '67 Dodge Dart slant-six. And don't even get me goin' with regard to kids being issued/allowed cellphones...
 
Rick - I looked...don't think they're Alabama plates...not enough numbers/letters
 
Fort Smith Arkansas, summer 2005 I think?
 
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If that were here and I lost that kind of property the "kid" would be a "ward of the state" and Mommy and Daddy wouldn't be able to make the "monthlies" for a LOOOONG time. Oh, and I'd have another piece of real-estate in my name. That is about as blatant an example of irresponsibility (individual and parental) as I've seen in a while. He should have been in nothing more advanced/powerful than a '67 Dodge Dart slant-six. And don't even get me goin' with regard to kids being issued/allowed cellphones...

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Amen, amen, amen brother Entropy!!

I'm here trying to defend the swarm of complete morons that want to stop me from flying over their houses, towns, and cities because of the accident in NYC - yet people will continue to not only put up with accidents like the one with this pickup truck, but they continually add to the problem.

People have to start realizing their vehicles aren't a Disneyland ride, they're several thousand pounds of guided weapon that can kill people and destroy property.
 
General Aviation has always been in the "cross-hairs" of "The Great Unwashed"... I think it's jealousy, myself. Most have NO idea about GA safety records, what it takes to get a Private ticket, the stringent FAA requirements on the equipment, etc... We should adopt similar requirements for drivers' licensing, and automobile registration IMO!!!


Driving Instructor: "Okay, Ms Midriff/Mr Mook... Open the hood, check the oil... point out the alternator... Then I want to see you change the right rear tire with the spare in the trunk, please.... and while you're there, check the tire pressures all around."


That would fix a BUNCH of the problems.
 
And as I understand it the guy had less than 100 hours... but enough money to acquire a craft with capabilities (fully aerobatic) far beyond his skill as a pilot... not that that's a bad thing, but it can promote a false sense of security. I've friends who fly... one in a soarplane... he bugged me to go up with him until I said something like: "After you've had to put down a couple times in an alternate or a pasture I may chance it." --- I think he was insulted...

Then he put the Blanik into some woods a little while later. Wax one Blanik. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/devilgrin.gif

I've been around this stuff too long to be excited over it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
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