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Old 07 August 2007, 08:29 PM
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Old 07 August 2007, 08:36 PM
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Wouldn't they have taken apart the car and motorcycle to get at the bodies to remove them? How would they have cleaned up the blood and other gore from the car and motorcycle sufficiently enough for display? Could they perhaps have reconstructed the crime scene with another car and motorcycle to create an aftermath similar to the one described?
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Old 07 August 2007, 08:41 PM
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on site photo of crash no bodies visible
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Old 07 August 2007, 08:45 PM
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and further googling reveals the same text appended to a very different set of photos

another motorcycle v car
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Old 07 August 2007, 09:27 PM
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Wouldn't they have taken apart the car and motorcycle to get at the bodies to remove them? How would they have cleaned up the blood and other gore from the car and motorcycle sufficiently enough for display? Could they perhaps have reconstructed the crime scene with another car and motorcycle to create an aftermath similar to the one described?
If the car was upside down, they may well have removed the bodies from the bottom. At any rate, they would have to crash a motorcycle into a car in order to reconstruct the scene with other vehicles, and why would they bother, when they had the pieces of the original vehicles to hand?

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and further googling reveals the same text appended to a very different set of photos
That's the infamous Ferrari Enzo crash in Malibu.

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It's certainly possible that the backstory is true.

FOAF tale of worse - my boss told me of the time he came across a van that had just had an accident at a crossroads. They had no idea at all what had hit them, but the van was split in two (front half, back half) and their dog who was in the back of the van was unfortunately dead. They were shaken up, but fine, and trying to figure out what the hell happened as there was no other vehicle or carnage. Boss walked up the road and found a few hundred metres down the road and off the side of it a motorcycle and two halves of a rider.
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