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| Muggers leave Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone feeling a bit simple |
| 2010-11-26 |
| FORMULA One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been mugged and robbed of jewellery - just weeks after he said only "simple" people got attacked in London. Four men punched and kicked the 80-year-old billionaire to the ground after pouncing on him and his girlfriend, Fabiana Flosi, 31, outside the headquarters of his business empire, Formula One Holdings. The attackers escaped with $320,000 worth of jewellery including a watch and diamond rings. A spokesman for Scotland Yard said police were called to the scene on Wednesday night to "reports of a man and a woman robbed". "The man was taken to a west London hospital for treatment to a minor head injury and was subsequently discharged. There were no reports of any other injuries," the spokesman said. "The items stolen are believed to be a quantity of jewellery." Mr Ecclestone, the commercial rights holder for motor racing's elite division, compared London to Sao Paolo earlier this month after Formula One driver Jenson Button escaped a roadside assault ahead of the Brazilian Grand Prix. "You have to remember we have a lot of problems in England, Oxford Street and places, and in New York people get mugged," he said. "They look for victims, they look for people who are a little bit slow and simple, but the people who look a bit bright, they never go after them." |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #7 'twas the jinn Bruce McLaren what did the deed. |
| Posted by: Goldies Every Damn Where 2010-11-26 18:35 |
| #6 Geez, a billionaire got mugged? He could just let it be known through several layers of firewall, that if some concerned citizens hunted down the thugs and gutted them like deer, that Lady Luck would smile upon them. Seriously, drop a few hundred-k Pounds, and send a profound message to London's criminal entrepreneurial classes that they should respect their elders. |
| Posted by: Anonymoose 2010-11-26 15:23 |
| #5 What we say about others is often true mostly of ourselves. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2010-11-26 14:54 |
| #4 He should have stuck with Nazi-style orgies, like his former boss Max Mosley. |
| Posted by: Eric Jablow 2010-11-26 13:59 |
| #3 Somebody apparently read his bollocks & decided to make a point. An eighty-year-old billionaire with hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bling on him? Where was his inevitable aides-cum-bodyguards? |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2010-11-26 13:52 |
| #2 Four men punched and kicked the 80-year-old billionaire to the ground after pouncing on him and his girlfriend, Fabiana Flosi, 31... Yes. It must be love... |
| Posted by: tu3031 2010-11-26 11:41 |
| #1 $320k on their persons?? where does one hang all that bling? was that his 'Mister T Starter Kit' or what? |
| Posted by: USN, Ret. 2010-11-26 10:49 |