Posted on 03/09/2024 7:09:04 AM PST by bitt
Angela Chao, Sen. Mitch McConnell’s billionaire sister-in-law, spent her last minutes alive frantically calling her friends for help as her Tesla slowly sank in a pond on a remote Texas ranch, according to a report.
Chao, the billionaire former CEO of dry bulk shipping giant Foremost Group, tragically died at the age of 50 on Feb. 10 after accidentally backing her car into the pond while making a three-point turn.
The driving mishap was detailed in a report by The Wall Street Journal that shed light on the chaotic rescue efforts that ultimately came up short, turning what was supposed to be a celebratory weekend with friends into a nightmare.
Chao invited several of her girlfriends from Harvard Business School to spend the weekend on a gorgeous, sprawling 900-acre private property in Texas’ Hill Country, that included horse stables, a swimming pool and a 10-bedroom guesthouse, the Journal reported.
After eating dinner together and celebrating the Chinese New Year on Friday night, Chao left the guesthouse around 11:30 p.m. to head back to the main house, where her son was sleeping. It was cold out, so she decided to take her Tesla Model X SUV for the four-minute drive rather than walk.
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Sandwiched between The Old Stupid Traitorous Fart retiring, and the discovery of WiFi on shipping cranes from chi-nuh
Is this still under criminal investigation ?
Lol
With Chynah Mitch stepping aside, who’s the new Big Dog on the ChiCom payroll running our US Senate?
Something smells bad in Texas.
>>Actually, an Asian friend of my wife, who was born in Taiwan, says Asian women are the worst drivers and don’t care what they do to others. I guess it is the culture, which basically sucks.<<
My wife, who is Filipina, says Chinese woman drivers in Manila are notorious for being awful drivers. Usually they kill Filipino pedestrians instead of themselves.
Most ‘unintended accelerations’ come from ‘foot on the wrong pedal, the accelerator pedal, not the brake pedal. This is particularly common in vehicles the driver is unaccustomed to.
“Message in a bottle…”
The Police
“Did someone else “drive” the Tesla into reverse at high speed?”
Not according to Angela.
Is anyone else concerned that Mitch has a sister-in-law who was so deeply connected with the CCP? Then there was Nancy Pelosi who hired a Chinese man from Communist China as a chauffeur. There have been other lovers and close biasness associates deeply connected with the CCP and other lawmakers. I can tell you that when I had a Top Secret, if anyone in my family was married to or had a business connection to Russia or the CCP that would be the end of my access to anything sensitive. But our superiors? Rules don’t apply.
Sending a message to a family member perhaps?
So you are a billionaire, so you have a car, so you are a female asian driver, so it is dark, so you are in an unfamiliar area, so you have been drinking, so there is a lake nearby. Why didn’t she have a driver and so forth? Maybe she was a friend of obamas’ private chef?
One, Asian women can’t drive. Two, she should’ve stayed in China. Three, hard to gin up a lot of sympathy for a Harvard dumb ass having a Harvard reunion of dumbasses.
They are ruining Texas. What kind of idiot drives off into a stock tank? And all my time in Texas I’ve never heard of that happening even once.
Our betters…
While I have no formal study to back this up, my theory is that in the US, motor vehicles were first introduced as a luxury for a select few, then something of a more utilitarian necessity, and over time became the widespread everyday, taken for granted phenomenon it is today. Thus, our culture has had over a century to evolve customs and courtesies of the road, traffic laws driver's ed programs, etc. Kids grew up as passengers with mom or dad driving and learned some of this by osmosis, and over time, road networks, gas stations, and other infrastructure grew in concert with motor vehicle usage.
In Korea, and presumably some other Asian countries, motor vehicles remained toys of the wealthy for a long time until sudden burgeoning economies in the 80s led to the immediate widespread availability of cars without any slow evolution or inculcation of driving culture, or the opportunity to build supporting road networks. You had young adults as new car buyers who came from house holds that rode trains, busses or in rural areas, ox carts all through their childhood. Without learning or developing good driving habits, they merely reinforced bad habits every time they got behind the wheel...and now they're teaching the next generations to drive.
Just my theory....
“I can see how a distracted, older person might get it wrong.”
That is what Angela said she did. OTOH, I am 77. From this side, 50 is young!
Not sure about Asian woman drivers but I can say from experience that you will never fear for your life as much as when you drive in Mexico City. Traffic laws are considered to be ‘suggestions’ if they are considered at all. Lane changing has only one rule - if your front bumper is 1mm in front of mine, you have the right of way ... time for me to stand on the brakes ‘cause that car is coming over!
Frikkin’ lunacy down there.
Yeah, this could’ve been you or me. I mean, who among us hasn’t driven their car backwards into a stock tank in Texas *on their own property* and not have the sense to open the door or drop a window?
++++ Oriental women can’t drive ++++
Agree .. everyone should carry a glass breaker in their vehicle.
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