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2023-11-23 -Short Attention Span Theater-
Motorist who plowed into Canadian border in fireball crash that sparked terror fears is New York businessman who was driving a $300,000 Bentley 'Flying Spur' with his wife - as casino owner reveals they stopped by just moments before border post inferno
[MAIL] A motorist who plowed into the Canadian border sparking terror fears was a New York businessman driving a $300,000 Bentley 'Flying Spur' with his wife in the passenger seat, it has emerged.

The 56-year-old businessman and his wife, who have not been named, died when the supercar smashed into the US checkpoint and burst into flames at 11.27am.

They had been at the Seneca Niagara casino resort prior to the explosion - but were only there for 'minutes', a spokesman told DailyMail.com.

'We are cooperating with law enforcement in their investigation into the incident that occurred near the Rainbow Bridge,' the spokesman said.

'We have reviewed and provided information related to a vehicle that stopped at Seneca Niagara Resort & Casino only for a matter of minutes shortly before the crash occurred.'

Sources within the casino said the couple were not believed to be regulars, and were possibly only in the resort to change money.

They were intending on driving to a Kiss concert in Canada, CNN's John Miller reported, which was later canceled due to a bandmember suffering from flu.

Miller said there was some speculation the driver, from a well-known family in Grand Isle, New York, had a medical issue.
It’s Grand Island, actually The French called it La Grande Île, but they lost it in the French & Indian War, then New York State bought it from the Iroquois in 1815. Shortly thereafter it was proposed as a homeland for the world’s Jews, but nothing came of it.
Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-23 02:00|| || Front Page|| [11151 views ]  Top

#1 Keeping the identities rather close hold it would appear. Perhaps there is a bit more to this story.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 03:54||   2023-11-23 03:54|| Front Page Top

#2 ^^^ You were reading my mind, B.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-11-23 03:55||   2023-11-23 03:55|| Front Page Top

#3 Strange, not the back-channel narrative being passed around by Intel-Gray Hats.
Posted by NN2N1 2023-11-23 06:44||   2023-11-23 06:44|| Front Page Top

#4 48 Hour Rule.
Posted by trailing wife 2023-11-23 08:24||   2023-11-23 08:24|| Front Page Top

#5 I still say way too much bang for a passenger vehicle gasoline fire. Cars only blow up like that in movies and 60 Minutes episodes.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-23 08:26||   2023-11-23 08:26|| Front Page Top

#6 Agree w/ MM; too big of a fireball for only a tank of gas. And no id of occupants. Looks like math be hard cuz something ain’t adding up
Posted by USN, Ret. 2023-11-23 08:33||   2023-11-23 08:33|| Front Page Top

#7 An exploding Bentley Flying Spur? Air bag eruption? Anti-theft grenades? Nitroglycerin filled Michelins? Occupants headed to a black powder turkey shoot? Vehicle registration? Dealer? Cell phones ?

Grieving family members, neighbors? celebration of life event ?

No terrorist attack here. No, the bodies were unrecognizable and will likely remain as such. This sort of thing rarely happens in NY. Move along please, nothing more to be seen here.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 08:35||   2023-11-23 08:35|| Front Page Top

#8 They thought they were getting back in their car at the ca$ino, but it was actually Bond's. Who knew the same key fob opened every fifth one...
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-23 08:38||   2023-11-23 08:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Early adoption of Biden's vehicle Kill Switch™
Posted by Frank G 2023-11-23 08:47||   2023-11-23 08:47|| Front Page Top

#10 Mob hit.
Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-11-23 09:01||   2023-11-23 09:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Grassy knoll ?
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 09:02||   2023-11-23 09:02|| Front Page Top

#12 I like #10. Bomb in car, guy with remote waiting near tollbooth. The location muddies the waters in a big way.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-23 09:07||   2023-11-23 09:07|| Front Page Top

#13 They know the two were at a casinö prior to the boom-boom but nothing else. Yeah, right.

"New York businessman". Possibly close ties to Gov. Hochul and the DNC as well?
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-11-23 09:11||   2023-11-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#14 You mean to tell me the word 'casinö' is on Fred's dirty word list?
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-11-23 09:11||   2023-11-23 09:11|| Front Page Top

#15 You mean to tell me the word 'casinö' is on Fred's dirty word list?

Probably from back in the day when there were innumerable spambots hawking their online 'casinös'.

On the other hand, I do like #10 as a high-possibility motive.
Posted by Mullah Richard 2023-11-23 09:23||   2023-11-23 09:23|| Front Page Top

#16 Tilt steering wheel?

Bentley driver may have suffered 'medical emergency' before crashing $300,000 supercar into Canadian border on ill-fated trip to see KISS with his wife: Authorities struggle to identify couple's 'incinerated' remains after fireball sparked terror fears
Posted by Skidmark 2023-11-23 09:53||   2023-11-23 09:53|| Front Page Top

#17 Sorry. Unless vehicle was utterly reduced to ash, you can get a VIN, find out who owns it and start looking for who is missing. No need for fancy CSI: Clueless machinations.

Don't even bother trying to tell me a toll collection or traffic control system camera didn't catch the license plate.
Posted by M. Murcek 2023-11-23 10:08||   2023-11-23 10:08|| Front Page Top

#18 My roomie's thinking there were a few grill-sized propane cylinders (full ones) in the trunk. One of the bits of flying debris did look a bit convex / concave, but that doesn't necessarily connect those dots.
Posted by Raj 2023-11-23 10:09||   2023-11-23 10:09|| Front Page Top

#19 /\ Exploding Weber grills ?
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 10:12||   2023-11-23 10:12|| Front Page Top

#20 ...for a propulsion assisted take off.
Posted by Procopius2k 2023-11-23 11:01||   2023-11-23 11:01|| Front Page Top

#21 Exploding Weber grills ?

Heh. Thirty years ago I did a Thanksgiving turkey on the Weber Silver grill, smoked w/ a couple of chunks of hickory & oak chips. It was one of my finest works.
Posted by Raj 2023-11-23 13:52||   2023-11-23 13:52|| Front Page Top

#22 Yeah, I thought "mob hit" once I heard about the Bentley and the quick visit to the casin0. But whatever the gum'ment tells us might be tough to believe.
Posted by DooDahMan 2023-11-23 15:54||   2023-11-23 15:54|| Front Page Top

#23 What kind of business was the driver in?
Posted by Seeking Cure For Ignorance 2023-11-23 15:56||   2023-11-23 15:56|| Front Page Top

#24 /\ He was a professional net troll. I'm glad he's gone.
Posted by Besoeker 2023-11-23 17:40||   2023-11-23 17:40|| Front Page Top

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