Wednesday, March 21, 2012

China bans the word "Ferrari" on the web to prevent rumours of top official's son's accident...

Censors in China have banned internet users from searching the word Ferrari to suppress rumours the son of a senior party official was killed in high-speed car crash.

All references to the Italian supercar company were mysteriously removed from China's online search engines in the early hours this morning.

The ban came after speculation that a young man killed on Sunday when the Ferrari 458 he was driving split in two near Baofusi Bridge, in Beijing, was in fact the son of senior Communist party official.

Two female passengers were also seriously injured in the high-speed crash - even though the Ferrari is strictly a two-person vehicle.

The Beijing Public Security Bureau refused to give local media any information about the crash prompting the rumours. Full story...

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