A bird in hand may be worth two in the bush, as the old maxim goes, but it turns out that a bird on the wing is worth a Bugatti Veyron. The driver of one of the few of those incredible performance machines to be sold in North America ran his $2 million Bugatti Veyron into a salt water lagoon near Galveston, Texas, earlier this week after he was startled by a passing pelican, dropped his cell phone in his lap and jerked the wheel. The report from the Galveston County Daily News says the unidentified driver walked away unharmed but left the drowning Bugatti, its quatro-turbo engine burbling away like a motorboat, sitting in two feet of salt water. The crashed Veyron's engine idled for 15 minutes before the salt water finally drowned it, the newspaper reported. And the reason we bring you this as a green car report? Well, it's funny – if you aren't the Bugatti driver – and laughter helps the environment (helps our environment, anyhow). And there's this: the soggy Bugatti quite likely did its bit to help pollute the lagoon by dumping a fair amount of oil and gasoline into the water, but the accident may have spared the life of a pelican. And, we can't help but point out,
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