Rule of thumb: if your day takes a horrible turn for the worst, blame the pelican.
That’s just what a man in Texas did after rocketing his $1.3 million-dollar Bugatti Veyron into two feet of water. According to the Galveston County Daily News, the man was driving through the area to look at real estate, when a low-flying pelican distracted him.
We wouldn’t be surprised if the cell phone he dropped was also a distraction, but nevertheless, he reportedly jerked the wheel in response to the bird, hit a muddy slope, and landed in the lagoon.
According to the paper, the Veyron’s 1001-hp W-16 engine “gurgled like an outboard motor” for about 15 minutes before it died. Somewhere, Ettore Bugatti is spinning in his grave. For what it's worth, I'm bawling like a Sanjaya fan...