With gas prices at record highs worldwide, people everywhere are looking for ways to reduce their energy costs. Some are buying more fuel-efficient vehicles and others are, well, just burning their old cars to the ground.
Earlier this morning, a 30-year old unemployed man in Germany decided he was through filling his car with pricey petrol and figured the best way to end his oil addiction was to burn his car to the ground. The yet-to-be-named individual drove his 1995 BMW 3-series (not pictured) onto the lawn outside of the Frankfurt convention center, poured a can of gas over it (which we find fairly ironic since he was protesting the high cost of gas) and then set the car ablaze, according to CNN.com.
By the time the fire department reached the inferno, the Bimmer was completely gutted.
The man has yet to be charged with a crime, but told local police he torched his car because he could no longer afford the gas to drive his vehicle. However, authorities are considering a number of chargers with penalties ranging from fines to prison time.
The average liter of gasoline currently retails for about 1.55 euros in Germany — the equivalent of $9.40 per gallon – but we can’t help but think that he might have been better off by just putting a ‘For Sale’ sign in the car’s window. But then again, the car market is pretty bad right now.
06/27, 3:51 PM
posted by:
xyunya
I wish somebody protested so violently when Germany started WWI and WWII. What a confused nation.
06/27, 3:54 PM
posted by:
bolex
LOL thats funny!
06/27, 3:55 PM
posted by:
enthusiast89
does this author seriously think that we’re all so stupid that we can’t figure out the irony without him spelling it out?
06/27, 3:56 PM
posted by:
Syrax
GMnumberone probably thinks he was fed up with his german POS BMW!
06/27, 3:57 PM
posted by:
HemiRoadRunner
Why couldn’t it have been a honda or toyota?
06/27, 3:57 PM
posted by:
xyunya
enthusiast89, I absolutely do not assume that you all are so stupid: humorless, ruthless and murderous. Stupid – no.
06/27, 3:59 PM
posted by:
xyunya
HemiReatrd, Honda and Toyota are efficient in Germany as well. And people who drive them in US generally are more educated (less violent and less prone to stupidity). You’ll never drive one.
06/27, 4:04 PM
posted by:
johnnycanuck
There would now be two less gas-suckers if the stupid f*ck had set fire to the car while he was still in it.
06/27, 4:07 PM
posted by:
bolex
man, johnny ..LOL you kill me!
06/27, 4:15 PM
posted by:
kitko
xyunya, our history debate seems to continue
WW1 was started by Austria – it attacked Serbia after Gavrilo Princip assassinated Franz Ferdinand d’Este, successor to Austria-Hungary throne, in Sarajevo (Bosnia was anexed by Austria shortly before). It, of course, started chain reaction and Germany wasn’t too shy to join.
But I couldn’t agree more with your post no. 7
More to the point, I wonder how an unemployed man can keep a BMW on his driveway and how he managed to fill it with petrol up till today.
06/27, 4:26 PM
posted by:
bigp
well thats an way it
06/27, 4:27 PM
posted by:
F451
Cool…I mean, hot!
06/27, 4:36 PM
posted by:
1c3d0g
Damn…sucks to be him. What an idiot. :-/
06/27, 4:42 PM
posted by:
mayer_ray_nagin
… B enzin
… M acht
… W ertlosigkeit
06/27, 5:13 PM
posted by:
tripleonefive
He would have burned a GM but they already catch on fire
06/27, 5:56 PM
posted by:
LamborghiniZ
What a fool, that’s an E36 generation 3-Series, the best handling 3-Series ever!
Lame.
06/27, 6:26 PM
posted by:
Rafa LL
So if the food prices were high as well, would he burn himself ?
06/27, 6:32 PM
posted by:
elviososa
Benz and BMW use a lot of gas!
06/27, 7:04 PM
posted by:
Rafa LL
No they don’t…
06/27, 8:03 PM
posted by:
Don
–”Why couldn’t it have been a honda or toyota?” Comment by HemiRoadRunner
because Hondas and Toyotas actually get good gas mileage
06/27, 8:58 PM
posted by:
Get Real
Burn Baby Burn.
Protest those high taxes that pay for YOUR unemployment check.
06/28, 7:03 AM
posted by:
Fletch
A 1995 325 with a 5MT should get around 30 mpg highway. Why not get creative and reduce weight by 300-400 lbs or run a fuel efficient chip or something.
06/28, 2:25 PM
posted by:
MugenSentraKen
=========>>LOL Raffa LL, “So if the food prices were high as well, would he burn himself?” really good one…
06/28, 6:51 PM
posted by:
injunraiv
1115 tried to burn his Honda, but couldn’t figure out how to light the match.
06/28, 10:26 PM
posted by:
tripleonefive
^^^^^ Keep trying
06/29, 12:01 AM
posted by:
sprockkets
My friend who went to Ecuador says if gas goes over $2 a gallon or $1.50 for diesel (I may be off by a 50 cents or so), the people riot, and everything shuts down until the price gets put back in place. Sometimes the riots last a few days; one time it lasted 2 weeks.
06/29, 2:52 AM
posted by:
GT Pro
The man ‘told local police he torched his car because he could no longer afford the gas to drive his vehicle’ – Yer, that will happen when you DON’T HAVE A JOB.
06/30, 7:43 AM
posted by:
JohnnyBlazE
LamborghiniZ: E36 and E30 both have their strong points regardling handling… I do believe the E36 had better suspension at the rear… but the E30 was smaller and lighter, better balanced and very chuckable… Difficult to call really, but both great cars…
I have an E30 myself with the M-Technik setup (318is) which is now a 325 engined highway cruiser… Balance lost a bit so the advantage of the 318is’s light engine is gone… Great torque and power delivery from the 2.5 litre 6 pot though.
06/30, 10:23 AM
posted by:
HolyDogWater
Give a man a match, he’ll stay warm for a few minutes. Set a man on fire, he’ll stay warm for the rest of his life!
06/30, 12:39 PM
posted by:
jumpoffit
why burn your car? he could have just burned down a gas station, he’s already going to jail- if you are going to jail for something retarded – might as well make it worth it i say and he wouldn’t have to waste money in buying the gas to use since it’s already there at the pump..
07/01, 12:40 PM
posted by:
ktulu
That’s hot
Germany dind’t start WWi