Malibu Mystery Races Away With Buzz

Yahoo ^ | Mar. 2, 2006

[KittyKares]

I don't see anything after the URL, so I am having difficulty making the connection.

[nuconvert]

"Update: Feb 23 - 7:30 PM EST - It appears Mr Eriksson may have destroyed a car which didn't belong to him. Police said the car was the property of the Bank of Scotland and was in the process of being repossessed at the time of the crash. The word on the street is the Ferrari was obtained through fraudulent financing along with a Mercedes SLR. When the bank found out, Eriksson simply shipped the Ferrari to the United State. The car had a European registration and nothing had been done to make it street legal in California.
Police have calculated the official speed of impact at 162 MPH."

[steve86]

Eriksson simply shipped the Ferrari to the United State.

I guess this was one of those containers that didn't get inspected. Normally. the EPA wouldn't allow a non-certified car in (ask Bill Gates -- Porsche 959). You supposedly can get a "track-only exemption.

[KittyKares]

Thank you. That link really goes into detail.

[zbigreddogz]

I' going to graduate school at Pepperdine University, just a few miles from there.

I'll tell you this much: It sure screwed up traffic that day.

[Colorado Doug]

I thought California was being annexed by Mexico, not the UK...

There you go again Decal, you are not thinking Global enough. Ginsberg will insist that Italian law will apply because our living Constitution could not have envisioned a Ferrari traveling at those speed.

[Colorado Doug]

I thought California was being annexed by Mexico, not the UK...

There you go again Decal, you are not thinking Global enough. Ginsberg will insist that Italian law will apply because our living Constitution could not have envisioned a Ferrari traveling at that speed.

[Ben Hecks]

This incident is interestingly similar to one in Crighton's book State of Fear.

[nuconvert]

Nice school

[durasell]

Swedish mafia?




Cross them and you'll sleep with the swedish fishes...

(had to be said, sorry).

[tubebender]

There were a few Swedish girls I would have like to sleep with but then I got older... and older... and older... and suddenly I was old...

[Lunatic Fringe]

The car's owner, a former video game executive from Sweden, told Los Angeles County sheriff's deputies at the scene of the Feb. 21 accident in Malibu that he was deputy commissioner of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority's police anti-terrorism unit, detectives said Thursday.

Hey, I know that guy! He drives a Ferrari and claims to be a part of some "top secret multi-jurisdictional federal-local police task force."

Put an APB out for this guy:

[GovernmentShrinker]

And there was never any "Dietrich".

The whole thing is really bizarre. Why did he tell the silly "Dietrich" story, when the most cursory investigation would show that "Dietrich" didn't exist. I mean this guy claimed to not even know "Dietrich"'s last name. Who lets a complete stranger take their million dollar sports car out for a 162 mile an hour spin?