Financial Suicide - what a legend!

[dave87]

http://jalopnik.com/5559767/i-sold-e...ss-the-country



91k in a Lambo. Now with a broken engine. Absolute Legend.

[Andeh13]

what a hero!

[CAT-THE-FIFTH]

Great story.

[kalniel]

What a nutter. The least he could have done is go to Europe or something. Driving that car in the US is just... arghh.

[MaddAussie]

Car are meant to driven, Hes a hero

[Rave]

Good story....sorry to be a skeptic, but it doesn't add up. For a start, he raised half the cost of the Lambo selling his stuff, and borrowed the rest. He couldn't sell his house, so still had to pay the mortgage, plus the outstanding finance on the car. So where was the money coming from?

Where did the money come from to pay the $25,000 cost of his gun incident with the Indiana cops?

And how, at the end of it, did he have the wherewithal to rent a posh looking workshop in which to build 'custom motorcycles and superbikes'?

I don't buy it TBH. Though if any benefactor fancies setting me up with a 2000 Sq Ft workshop with a lathe, milling machine, pipe bender and TIG welder I'll build you a tidy chopper for your trouble.

[kalniel]

Good story....sorry to be a skeptic, but it doesn't add up. For a start, he raised half the cost of the Lambo selling his stuff, and borrowed the rest. He couldn't sell his house, so still had to pay the mortgage, plus the outstanding finance on the car. So where was the money coming from?
Where did the money come from to pay the $25,000 cost of his gun incident with the Indiana cops?

Remortage the rest of the house.

[GheeTsar]

Why didn't he replace the timing chain?

[kalniel]

Why didn't he replace the timing chain?

No point replacing the chain if it's already totalled the rest of the engine?

[GheeTsar]

No point replacing the chain if it's already totalled the rest of the engine?

I meant before it totalled the rest of the engine.

[shadowmaster]

Legend

[Saracen]

Assuming the less sceptical view that the story is true as told, then I've got a sneaking admiration for the guy .... with one exception. The exception is that I can't help but wonder if doing this on such a tight budget meant that if he was having trouble paying for gas, was he having proper servicing done? I doubt it. And if it's right that he didn't, then if he had, he might still have a working engine.

But beyond that .... look, we only get one life. Each year, each month, day, each second, we only get once. So live life.

Of course, what that means is a matter of personal choice. Some people might prioritise family life and kids, others avoid that like the plague. Some live to work, and put everything into their career. In my value scheme, such people are short-sighted fools, but if that's what they want, then it's what they want.

What this bloke has done is to decide that he wants to do something, he wants an experience, he wants to live his life his way, not the way society or other people expect him to, and as long as he does that without hurting other people, more power to him.

After all, none of us know if or when we might have an unexpected stroke or heart attack, find out we have cancer or some other debilitating disease, or get flattened by a runaway bus. I know it's sounding morbid, but people do get killed in car accidents every day, and a lot more get life-changing injuries than get killed.

So I admire this bloke because he decided what he wanted to do, and instead of doing what most people do, which is to dream and plan while they fritter away those precious commodities of the years, days and seconds we are all allotted, he did something. Instead of dreaming it while living a dreary, mundane, work-all-you-can life, he lived it.

So, to my mind, life is about achieving a balance that suits you. Planning for the retirement is one thing, and a pension is a good idea .... providing you live long enough to make use of it. But putting everything into providing for your future might well be as stupid as not providing for it at all, simply because none of us know we actually have a future.

That calculation changes if you have a family, of course, because providing for kids should, and usually does, become the number 1 priority. But I've watched people, including some very close to me, live fairly abstemious lives in order to provide for their retirement, and then find that by the time they got to the age to enjoy it, their health was so poor that they couldn't do what they'd planned .... and ended up dying unexpectedly early. 40 years of careful and restrained living and planning was frustrated by ill health.

So .... to a point, do it today because you might not see tomorrow.

And that is what this bloke has done. More power to him.

[lego batman]

I can really see that guy in fight club.