French Revellers Torch 372 Cars
Reuters reports that French "vandals" (where are the Goths when you need them?) celebrated the New Year by torching 372 cars. More specifically, Parisian miscreants transformed 144 cars into autos flambée, while pyros in the rest of France set 228 cars alight. Apparently, this is something of a result, law and order-wise. Last year, 397 cars served double duty as New Year's Eve sparklers. Hey, when in France… "Cars are burned fairly regularly in France and the image of vehicles in flames in poor suburbs became symbolic of riots in 2005 when angry youths set fire to thousands of cars." To cope with the new trend, French authorities have taken to banning the sale of gas in containers during public holidays and periods of public unrest. The Reuters article made no mention of insurance fraud, but you gotta wonder…
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All them burnin' cars sure doesn't sound very green to me. I'm so disappointed to have delusions of European environmental supremacy shattered.
Sounds a bit like Detroit at Halloween. Only moreso.
Don't they have guns in that country? I'd like to see someone try to light my car on fire in front of my house!
Not funny. Very sad.