Eriksson pleads guilty to drunk driving, but that's it
After turning down a plea deal that would have resulted in his serving just 28 months in jail, Bo Stefan Eriksson pleaded no contest in L.A. Superior Court today. The charge he was addressing however, was not grand theft, embezzlement or the firearms possession charges he still faces, but rather the drunk driving charge that was part of the list of offenses he was cited for after his Malibu crash of a Ferrari Enzo. "We want to fight the battle where the battle is. It makes no sense to chase windmills and waste the jury's time and the court's time," said attorney James Parkman.Los Angeles County Superior Court Judge Patricia M. Schnegg will sentence Eriksson for the drunk driving offense at the conclusion of his trial, which begins next week. Bo Stefan Eriksson, in case you've been under a rock, is the man who allegedly split an Enzo in half while taking it for an early morning top speed run down PCH in February. Because of Eriksson's (nine!) criminal convictions in Sweden for forgery, counterfeiting, narcotics and firearms offenses, he cannot legally possess a gun, which is why he also faces a weapons charge for a handgun that police found at his Bel-Air house.
[Source: L.A. Times]
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autoblog sucks balls 7:17PM (10/20/2006)
"Bo Stefan Eriksson, in case you've been under a rock, "
---Ed-Insults and threats have no place on this site.
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smooth sailin 7:22PM (10/20/2006)
Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall...
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Beavis 7:31PM (10/20/2006)
Yeah! Yeah! Give 'im the chair! The chair! Uh huh huh hmm huh hmm huh huh hmm hmm huh huh.
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dejal 7:32PM (10/20/2006)
#1 has "issues".
Sure seems like a lot of passion for someone who doesn't "care".
Seek therapy while there's still time.
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vectorbug 8:05PM (10/20/2006)
I like how everyone always reports that the enzo was split in half, like its some amazing tragedy (although it is). I'm pretty sure the car is designed to tear apart like that in a high impact situation.
Diffusing the heaviest part of the car (the engine and tranny) from the driver in such a high performance vehicle helps diffuse the energy of the impact away from the passengers, nullifying that much energy from the cabin (people) subtracts a lot of intertia. I'm willing to bet thats exactly whats supposed to happen in a high speed impact.
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smooth sailin 8:21PM (10/20/2006)
My freind has a Ferrari.to change the oil the engine has to be removed.1k a pop for an oil change.Pretty well thought out.Vectorbug makes an interesting argument for the breakaway Ferrari.I'd like to believe it.
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Shawn 9:04PM (10/20/2006)
vectorbug, ummm...I'm not so sure where you went to engineering school, but I have never encountered any safety design that would intentionally release high speed projectiles. That's insane. Instead of 1 vehicle or 2 in an accident, you send out heavy pieces of shrapnel? The law of safety engineering is to limit potential injuries and persons involved, not design something that will expand the kill zone.
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DPC car videos 9:58PM (10/20/2006)
A street race ruined this guys plush life, go figure.
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Dietrich 10:28PM (10/20/2006)
It is too bad over this. I know that you receive through this (her always do). Prison is not to the bad one, and then you can think of something else scam. Best desires
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Appliance Repairman 10:51PM (10/20/2006)
I gotta laugh at the Gizmondo handheld video game attempt last year. Tiger Telematics was so ambitious, that Stefan Erikson owned cars that he trashed in mere minutes. Living the fast life, ha. But being part of the Swedish(?) mafia, odd.
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Andy 11:30PM (10/20/2006)
Twenty-four months? This gas bag should have had a plea deal for nineteen years, down from a sentence of twenty.
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Carlton 8:11AM (10/21/2006)
Bo Stefan Eriksson is nothing more than a waste of good oxygen, not to mention a waste of Internet bandwidth.
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WillTheThrill 3:16PM (10/21/2006)
Whoo, thank God he'll never be able to own a gun again.
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iQuack 3:09PM (10/21/2006)
Some people should just be taken out and shot.
He'll do more damage--just wait.
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Mike 7:42PM (10/21/2006)
I don't get it. Are people really sitting on the edge of their seats wondering what is happening to this idiot? Who cares?
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art vark 10:25PM (10/21/2006)
Poor spoiled schlub.
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Kirill 8:46AM (10/22/2006)
As for the ferrari breaking in half, the enzo is utilizing F1 technology, and if some do not pay attention to F1, then you will think it is odd, but an F1 car uses a carbon shell for the driver and the engine is separated so it can come off easily in any crash. The whole point being that the car does not get completely destroyed in an accident. What happened in this accident was he slid sideways and hit a telephone/power pole and the point of imact was right behind the driver, where the front is connected to the rear, and it split in half, safely keeping the driver inside the carbon shell and the engine down the road...which is supposed to happen. Carbon fiber is not only light, but also softens the impact...so there is a good reason for the way it is set up. Ferrari has put out a statement that they can re-build the enzo to near brand-new condition for 250,000 USD (give or take a few) Thats about the price of a brand new f430.
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