Driver crashes £250,000 Lamborghini supercar (promise no DM link) Unnecessary racial comment

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Though it is a DM story.

A bloke (probably a prat) bent his Lamborghini, stepped out and may have said 'It's ok, I'l buy another one tomorrow'

Very silly thing to say, maybe because he was in some sort of shock.

Anyway, the article went on to describe him as an Asian Male.

Was that relevant to the article?

I made a comment to that extent, which is now has 100 red arrows!

Not sure where the AIBU fits in to this.

Are they trying to track him down and a description is necessary?

Otherwise I think what they are probably trying to say in a roundabout way is that he is a Saudi/UAE oil rich billionaire who doesn't have to care about things like writing off a quarter of a million pound car.

Which might be relevant in that London is a bit of a playground for mega rich people whose fortunes are based on countries where horrendous human rights abuses take place. But given it's the DM probably just being racist.

"Remarkably the driver, thought to be a young Asian man, walked away from the horror crash completely unscathed and was reported to have even 'laughed off' the crash telling onlookers it was ok because he'd 'buy another one tomorrow'."

They also called him 'young' and 'male'. Why do you have a problem with 'Asian'? It's not a dirty word you know.

Daily Mail Link Here

Imagine it was a woman.

32 yr old blonde woman living in a £250k house.

worra

I wonder if they'd have used White (or is that the assumed colour)

I immediately assumed this is a comment on the playboys who bomb around Knightsbridge etc. they spend the summer here away from the Gulf. It's a thing round here (I'm not in Knightsbridge but up the road and recognise the concept). They have unofficial racetracks around Park Lane. If that's who they were talking about then it is actually a particular behaviour and a particular problem.

Crash in Leicestershire, the pics are quite impressive.

Elsewhere it was reported that the driver was young & male.

I dunno, you can't help but wonder about the background of someone who does that. Doesn't mean you are out to confirm a load of prejudices just because you're curious about them.

Asian is such a huge term though. You have no idea if he is indian or Chinese or Japanese. I'm don't think it's worth getting worked up about. They do regularly describe people using hair colour, it's really just to fill space.

I really don't know Orlando

Is that car really worth £250k?

Why would they use Asian to describe people from Saudi or the Gulf?

I used to live near a Ferrari dealership, I have no trouble believing it cost £250k. And those cars are insanely powerful, it wouldn't be hard to overshoot a corner by hitting accelerator just a bit too hard.

It seems to be one of these pointless details that journalists use. A bit like how a woman who has children is invariably described as a "mother", rather than a woman, or a person (yet a father is simply described as a man). Or a man with a dodgy sense of employment is described as a "businessman", but a woman has to pretty much Michelle Mone to be described as a "businesswoman".

Yes, whys it relevant he's a man?

They could just have said the driver said.........

Its A Gallardo Which has been replaced by the 'Huracan' and was probably worth about £120K 2- 3 years old . The Daily Mail always makes prices up . A Lamborgini Aventador Hard top = £250K Conv 300K

Anyway I think the car was hired or owned by a group of 'Asian' buisness people. i dont think a Oligarch would be driving near a primary school in Leicester....

I think more importantly it might have mentioned something in the article about him buying another one tomorrow...

I think there are more important things in the DM to get worked up about than this throwaway comment.

You were reading the DM.

If you look in sewers you will see shit. Stop complaining.

Its the DM,they will have attributed his crash to a woman somehow by tomorrow.

I am disappointed in the fact that newspapers didn't focus on that fact that the Lamborghini driver almost certainly had a teeny tiny cock and this car was a quarter of a million pounds compensation device.

but a woman has to pretty much Michelle Mone to be described as a "businesswoman"

I disagree, Katie Hopkins is routinely described as a 'businesswoman' although her 'business' model seems to consist of going on This Morning to saying the most horrible thing she can think of in exchange for money.

Feck it no. Yanbu. Rich twat (of any race, gender or age) would've covered it. If I'd written off a Lambo I'd have been the tearful owner (45 white female DM) cuddling the wreckage.

I was kind of hoping it was Danny Lambo, last seen on 4 in a Bed which I will not deny my love for. I wanted to dislike him, but he was like an enthusiastically dim child, scrubbing pigs, chasing chickens, and playing with bees.

He drives an orange Gallardo. Tbh I think all Gallardos have to be orange, it's the Law or something.

Almost all the comments in the Daily Mail are unnecessary.

'adopted son'...so her son then.

'Random celebrity, 46, drinks some coffee'....why is age relevant. Why is drinking coffee a story?

Mary, 34, who lives on benefits/has a £5,000,000 house......WHY?!

If they took out all the irrelevant, random, unnecessary details and descriptors they could print it on a single sheet of A4. In a really big font.

You were reading the DM. If you look in sewers you will see shit.

^^This.

The DM is full of irrelevant commentary. Like the woman who Ed Miliband apparently shagged before he got married, who "some years later became a single parent". I mean, WTF?!!

It's all drivel. You should not expect anything else.

Yep, what Kampeki said. And Andrewofgg.