Million-Dollar Fender Bender

[Blue_Tires]

Nothing in Monte Carlo is understated, from the baubles to the yachts to the bank accounts. Now add traffic pile-ups to that list.

The Hope Diamond of fender benders unfolded yesterday in possibly the most conspicuous stretch of asphalt in the .75-square-mile principality — the round-about in front of the James Bond-worthy casino — when three blondes in a jelly-bean blue Bentley Azure ($363,000) scraped the rear of a white Mercedes-Benz S-Class (a paltry $91,000). And that was merely the appetizer.

Served up for the main course were a hapless black Ferrari F430 ($186,000), which was hit nose-first by the 2.7-ton Bentley. Then, like two tankers mashing in the fog, a four-door Aston Martin Rapide ($228,000) crunched into the Azure’s passenger door. The cherry on this metal, plastic and carbon-fiber shattering souffle: a stray Porsche 911 ($77,000).

In all, a Titanic mess in mere moments, involving nearly a million dollars of primo automotive machinery. How did this happen? A quick photo-based forensics of the scene based on knowledge of the Place du Casino offers many clues.

http://autos.yahoo.com/news/million-dollar-fender-bender.html

The comments section is a goldmine of trophy wife/blonde jokes...

[NV Whino]

1. The comments are hilarious

[petronius]

2. This is piss-poor journalism: the back-seat passenger in the Bentley

is clearly not blonde...

[Iggo]

3. This guy.

[madrchsod]

4. the comments are great!

[FloridaJudy]

5. I'm feeling a touch of schadenfreude here

"Nice wheels!" Screech...Crash...Crunch.

[MerryBlooms]

6. The moral of this story -

poor people drive Mercedes...

[Orrex]

7. That'll buff right out.