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The Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S. Department of Justice have landed themselves in hot water over the destruction of a Ferrari F50. According to The Detroit News, the vehicle was reported stolen from a dealership in Rosemont, Pennsylvania in 2003, and the dealer made and insurance claim for the sum of $750,000 at that time. Michigan-based Motors Insurance Corp. shelled out the cash, and in August 2008, the FBI recovered the vehicle in Kentucky. At that time, the FBI stored the vehicle while waiting to prosecute the thief, at least until someone at the bureau decided to use it for a little local arbor work.
The Ferrari F50 lost control and struck a tree with an FBI special agent behind the wheel in May of 2009, and Motors Insurance Corp. subsequently filed a claim to both the FBI and the U.S. Department of Justice for the full $750,000. Both parties rejected the claim under the pretense that the Ferrari was being detained by the FBI at the time of the incident.
The insurance company then set about submitting Freedom of Information Act requests for documents pertaining to the storage, transportation and handling of the Italian exotic, most of which were denied under federal exemptions or outright ignored. The company did manage to get a hold of one email that said that U.S. Assistant Attorney J. Hamilton Thompson rode with Special Agent Frederick C. Kingston on the day of the accident and that the vehicle fishtailed and slid sideways shortly after leaving the FBI storage warehouse.
Motors Insurance Corp. is now suing both the U.S. Department of Justice and the FBI to release the rest of the documents pertaining to the vehicle.
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Source: [url]http://www.autoblog.com/2011/02/24/fbi-being-sued-for-crashing-a-ferrari/[/url]
Guy, guy, guy from the government, LOOK OUT FOR THAT TREE!
Didn't know you could sue the government.
This is why I love this country, you can sue the biggest intelligence agency and not have your ass disappear the following week.
[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;28269828]Didn't know you could sue the government.[/QUOTE]
Dumbest fucking post I've ever read in this year.
Jesus Christ did you really just say that?
I wonder how this will compare to people whose car is commandeered and subsequently damaged.
[QUOTE=CabooseRvB;28269851]This is why I love this country, you can sue the biggest Intelligence Agency and not have your ass disappear the following week.[/QUOTE]
Least it's better then Soviet Russia Era
Reminds me of that one Japanese video where Japanese people view America as "Home of the Lawsuit"
[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;28269828]Didn't know you could sue the government.[/QUOTE]
You cannot sue the US government as a whole, but rather specific agencies. Only exception to this was some act passed over 50 years ago for worker shit
[QUOTE=RIPBILLYMAYS;28269905]Reminds me of that one Japanese video where Japanese people view America as "Home of the Lawsuit"[/QUOTE]
Ironic considering Sony.
[QUOTE=ZombieWaffle;28269828]Didn't know you could sue the government.[/QUOTE]
[i]really?[/i]
Deserves it for wrecking an otherwise perfectly good F50.
I don't suppose Nicholas Cage was driving?
Rimshot.
I cringed at the Ferrari in a tree. The poor thing.
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