NEWT
2011-12-06 15:24:38 UTC
With an admitted net worth of no less than $260 million, Mitt is
trying to hide his riches from voters as he makes another presidential
run.
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"Eight Ferraris crash at ‘gathering of narcissists’ in Japan"
By Cheng Herng Shinn
December 5, 2011
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Eight Ferraris and a Lamborghini were part of a
14-car crash in Japan yesterday that wrecked more than a million
dollars worth of vehicles.
“The accident occurred when the driver of a red Ferrari was switching
from the right lane to the left and skidded,” said Mitsuyoshi Isejima,
executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Expressway Traffic Police
unit. “It was a gathering of narcissists.” The drivers were aged
between 37 and 60 years old, he said.
The accident, at 10:16 a.m. on the rain-soaked Chugoku Expressway in
Yamaguchi Prefecture at the western tip of Japan’s main island of
Honshu, also involved three Mercedes Benz vehicles and two Toyotas,
police said. The convoy was heading from Kyushu to Hiroshima when the
accident occurred. No fatalities were reported and 10 people sustained
bruising and minor injuries.
The person suspected of causing the accident, a 60-year-old self-
employed man from Fukuoka prefecture, may face up to three months in
jail or a fine of as much as 100,000 yen ($1,280), said Isejima. The
accident included a Ferrari F-360 that costs more than 18 million yen.
It took longer than six hours to clear the highway of wreckage,
Isejima said.
TV footage showed a Ferrari that had plowed into the outer guard rail,
while another one had its engine bonnet almost ripped off.
Ferrari SpA, a unit of Fiat SpA, sold 493 cars in Japan last year,
down from 548 in 2009, according to the website of the Japan
Automobile Importers Association. All eight Ferraris involved in the
accident were registered in Kyushu, police said. Miki Kataoka, a
spokeswoman for Ferrari in Japan, declined to comment on the crash.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/eight-ferraris-crash-at-gathering-of-narcissists-in-japan/2011/12/05/gIQAmyS9XO_story.html
trying to hide his riches from voters as he makes another presidential
run.
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"Eight Ferraris crash at ‘gathering of narcissists’ in Japan"
By Cheng Herng Shinn
December 5, 2011
Dec. 5 (Bloomberg) -- Eight Ferraris and a Lamborghini were part of a
14-car crash in Japan yesterday that wrecked more than a million
dollars worth of vehicles.
“The accident occurred when the driver of a red Ferrari was switching
from the right lane to the left and skidded,” said Mitsuyoshi Isejima,
executive officer for Yamaguchi Prefecture’s Expressway Traffic Police
unit. “It was a gathering of narcissists.” The drivers were aged
between 37 and 60 years old, he said.
The accident, at 10:16 a.m. on the rain-soaked Chugoku Expressway in
Yamaguchi Prefecture at the western tip of Japan’s main island of
Honshu, also involved three Mercedes Benz vehicles and two Toyotas,
police said. The convoy was heading from Kyushu to Hiroshima when the
accident occurred. No fatalities were reported and 10 people sustained
bruising and minor injuries.
The person suspected of causing the accident, a 60-year-old self-
employed man from Fukuoka prefecture, may face up to three months in
jail or a fine of as much as 100,000 yen ($1,280), said Isejima. The
accident included a Ferrari F-360 that costs more than 18 million yen.
It took longer than six hours to clear the highway of wreckage,
Isejima said.
TV footage showed a Ferrari that had plowed into the outer guard rail,
while another one had its engine bonnet almost ripped off.
Ferrari SpA, a unit of Fiat SpA, sold 493 cars in Japan last year,
down from 548 in 2009, according to the website of the Japan
Automobile Importers Association. All eight Ferraris involved in the
accident were registered in Kyushu, police said. Miki Kataoka, a
spokeswoman for Ferrari in Japan, declined to comment on the crash.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/eight-ferraris-crash-at-gathering-of-narcissists-in-japan/2011/12/05/gIQAmyS9XO_story.html