Real live spy thriller in the works?

[dqueue]

Remember the story that broke regarding the <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=15033">Ferrari Enzo crash</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> in California? It involved Stefan Eriksson, "a Bel-Air resident who reportedly was convicted of racketeering and counterfeiting in his native Sweden 12 years ago."<br><br>Anyhow, <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2006_03/008335.php">Kevin Drum</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> reports some recent news around this story. He cites this <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-030206ferrari_lat,0,1020964.story?coll=la-home-headlines">LA Times story</a><!--EZCODE LINK END-->, which reports (in part):<br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr>Sheriff's investigators are trying to find two men claiming to be "homeland security" officers from a small San Gabriel Valley transit authority who showed up at the site of the crash last week of the $1-million Ferrari Enzo.<br><br>...<br>Eriksson survived the crash of the Ferrari, which was traveling at more than 160 mph, investigators said. When emergency workers arrived at the scene, Eriksson produced a card identifying him as "deputy commissioner" of the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority police department's antiterrorism unit, according to the Sheriff's Department.<br><br>A few minutes later, two unidentified men arrived at the crash site on Pacific Coast Highway in Malibu and flashed cards and said they were from "homeland security," according to a Sheriff's Department report.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--><br><br>Odd. <p></p><i></i>

[Floyd Smoots]

The fastest this old (5<!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8) --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/glasses.gif ALT="8)"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> guy has ever driven a car was approx. 120 mph. The fastest he has ever ridden in a car with a young (weren't we all once?) friend driving was approx. 135 mph. The fastest he has ever ridden a motorcycle was approx. 110 mph. And now, you blog in and tell me that "this" goony bird survived a crash of over 160 mph??? I'm NOT disbelieving you here, I'm saying, "And a lot of you here Still disbelieve in angels???"! <!--EZCODE EMOTICON START 8o --><img src=http://www.ezboard.com/images/emoticons/nerd.gif ALT="8o"><!--EZCODE EMOTICON END--> <br> <p></p><i></i>

[BajaSur]

From the Inquirer:<br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=29899">www.theinquirer.net/?article=29899</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br>Gizmondo man crashes Ferrari in real life<br><br>My mate Dietrich was driving, honest<br><br>By Tony Dennis: Friday 24 February 2006, 10:31<br>IT'S THE sort of thing you'd expect someone owning a games console from failed supplier, Gizmondo, to do. Crash a rare Ferrari Enzo on the costal road near Malibu, California that is. Except that Stefan Eriksson has allegedly done it in real life.<br><br>Eriksson had been a director with Gizmondo but resigned last year just before a Swedish newspaper claimed that he'd been convicted of counterfeiting. See Newspaper probes Gizmondo managers' past.<br><br>The company has gone belly up and investors are trying to get some of their money back from its parent, Tiger Telematics. The Ferrari was just one of many luxury cars which Gizmondo appears to have splashed out on.<br><br>Witnesses told detectives the Ferrari was drag racing with a Mercedes-Benz SLR, according to a report in The Los Angeles Times. However, Eriksson allegedly told police that the driver was a mysterious German he only knew as Dietrich – who'd run off once the car had crashed.<br><br>The INQ was always puzzled as to how Gizmondo expected to make serious bucks as it had struck an exclusive distribution deal with Carphone Warehouse in the UK. Carphone are good but that's an awfully narrow distribution base. µ<br>-----------------------------------------------------------------------<br><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://cache.jalopnik.com/cars/pch_enzo_2_1.jpg[/<br>img]<br><br> <br><br" style="border:0;"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br><br>This guy is a jerk, he is lucky he didn't kill anyone.<br>Connections to the Swedish Mafia and the San Gabriel Valley Transit Authority seem pretty laughable.On the other hand rich dumbasses are always connected to other rich dumbasses, so who knows where this will lead? <p></p><i>Edited by: <A HREF=http://p216.ezboard.com/brigorousintuition.showUserPublicProfile?gid=bajasur>BajaSur</A> at: 3/3/06 2:13 am<br></i>