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Old 01-19-2011, 01:49 PM
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I knew it was only a matter of time for that one to show up here. Reminds me of a certain Spec Boxster that was purchased out of Calif and the cage literally could be shaken w/o moving the car.

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Go post that up on 6speed and see how many "awesome" "badass" replies you get and report back
LOL... they already beat you to it: http://tinyurl.com/5tnlclh. Four pages worth, in fact. In defense of 6Speed, even they hate the wheels.
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Oh my God. Now the lady that fell in the fountain is suing.
What an effing country.
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^^ I've got a shiny nickel that says a lawyer contacted her first..........

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Jenson Button's father 'forgot where he parked Ferrari'

John Button, father of the Formula One driver, told police that he feared his Ferrari 550 had been swiped from where he parked it in the town of Alassio, on the Italian Riviera.

For more than 48 hours, between Saturday and Monday, police scoured the area for the £50,000 supercar.

But it slowly dawned on Mr Button, 65, a former rally cross driver, that in fact he had confused Alassio with a neighbouring town, Laigueglia, which has an almost identical layout and lies less than a mile along the coast.

He retraced his steps and sure enough, the Ferrari was parked just where he left it.

"It's all a bit embarrassing, but the roads that lead into Alassio and Laigueglia are almost identical, even the railings look the same, and they both have a fork in them," Mr Button told The Daily Telegraph yesterday.

"The police found it quite amusing and once things had been resolved said 'Give our regards to Jenson'.

"Funnily enough it was not the loss of the car that upset me, it was the thought that I might have lost a camera with some amazing shots from a trip to Kyoto. I know I'm going to get a bit of ribbing over the whole thing."

Mr Button gave his son his start in racing after buying him a go-kart when he was eight.

He is not the only high-profile sports personality to mislay a supercar.

Footballer Jermaine Pennant was contacted this week by Real Zaragoza, his former soccer team in Spain, after his Porsche was found to have been left in a railway station car park for five months.

Pennant, who now plays for Stoke City, reportedly said he had forgotten about the vehicle.
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Oh my God. Now the lady that fell in the fountain is suing.
What an effing country.
You guys are so negative. She has a great lawsuit with multiple defendants: the cell phone company, the company that built the fountain, the water company for filling the fountain, every other person in those videos for not rushing to Bed and Bath to get towels as she dripped her way across the mall...
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Any chance for a class action?

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