I know someone who I suspect of doing that.

She wanted a new car, but her husband argued that they couldn't afford it. She burned all her "how to have a good marriage" books in the kitchen sink, then drove the car around in the front yard, smashing it into every tree. Then her husband told her she had to drive it that way, all smashed up. A couple weeks later they went on vacation, leaving the smashed car behind. While they were gone, someone just happened to steal it. The cops found it burned to a crisp in the middle of a field a few miles away. Nothing else was taken, and the house wasn't broken into. Just the crappy car. Hmmmm.

I've wanted to torch one of my cars because I hated it, but you get far more money selling it for scrap.

I had a roommate in Idaho, circa 1977, who hated her 1969 GTO so much that she put a stick of dynamite in each of the four wheel wells and tried to blow it up.

About 30 feet away from our house.

Fortunately, the dynamite didn't go off. I hear that she was successful later, using better dynamite and doing it way out in a farmer's field.

Waste of a cool car, though.

Then there's the kid who set his on fire "simply because he hated the car."

Perhaps he wanted something more Reliant.

His sister?

SpinStopper: I had a roommate in Idaho, circa 1977, who hated her 1969 GTO so much that she put a stick of dynamite in each of the four wheel wells and tried to blow it up.

About 30 feet away from our house.

Fortunately, the dynamite didn't go off. I hear that she was successful later, using better dynamite and doing it way out in a farmer's field.

Waste of a cool car, though.

Someone should beat the shiat out of her for that.

Sweet justice, stay not thy hand

Was it a Chevy Vega?

What a '92 BMW might look like:


/Meh. I don't blame him.

mryoop789: I know someone who I suspect of doing that.

She wanted a new car, but her husband argued that they couldn't afford it. She burned all her "how to have a good marriage" books in the kitchen sink, then drove the car around in the front yard, smashing it into every tree. Then her husband told her she had to drive it that way, all smashed up. A couple weeks later they went on vacation, leaving the smashed car behind. While they were gone, someone just happened to steal it. The cops found it burned to a crisp in the middle of a field a few miles away. Nothing else was taken, and the house wasn't broken into. Just the crappy car. Hmmmm.

Just tell your wife if she wants a new car she can buy one herself.

I understand the reckless endangerment charge but is it arson if it's against your own property?

If he was torching it to try and claim the insurance, would it be a different charge?

/knows there are lawyers (and faux-lawyers) on fark who'll answer

I'd like to donate my '96 Chrysler Concord to mythbusters.

In the 60s, my dad worked with a principal or superintendent who bought a brand new GM car. I think it was a Cadillac. He set out on a trip, and the brand new car broke down. He beat the hell out of it with the tire iron and started walking. A tiny bit of an impulse control problem.

phlegmmo

Perhaps he wanted something more Reliant.


A K-Car? A nice Reliant automobile?

"That's may Dad's shootin car. Two more payments and it's ours"

mryoop789: She wanted a new car, but her husband argued that they couldn't afford it. She burned all her "how to have a good marriage" books in the kitchen sink

that is my favourite part of your story.

"My husband won't buy me a new car, this marriage is ruined!"

Hauptmann: I understand the reckless endangerment charge but is it arson if it's against your own property?

If he was torching it to try and claim the insurance, would it be a different charge?

/knows there are lawyers (and faux-lawyers) on fark who'll answer

that'd probably be insurance fraud if he were trying to claim insurance after torching his own car. Idk about arson against your own property, though i'm sure if someone tried to set their house on fire it'd be considered arson if most of the house is owned by the bank. I guess it depends who owns the title of the vehicle. Something tells me this 18 year old doesn't.

LittleSmitty: "That's may Dad's shootin car. Two more payments and it's ours"

A friend of mine dated a girl whose dad, forbidden to have liquor in the house, stored it in a 1973 Thunderbird in the yard. He called it "the bar".

Ah, the South.

My buddy wanted to get out of a Ford Ranger he bought back in the early 90s. Tried to talk me into helping him burn it up on a tank trail on Ft. Stewart.

Wasn't having any part of them.

see what owning a chevy will do to you?

Sin_City_Superhero: What a '92 BMW might look like:


/Meh. I don't blame him.

What's wrong with it?

I had a car once that I considered setting on fire. Paid for, I held the title, just no place to set it off.

Ant: Sin_City_Superhero: What a '92 BMW might look like:


/Meh. I don't blame him.

What's wrong with it?

It's better than he deserves, for sure. Aside from the color, I have no objections to the car.

canyoneer: Was it a Chevy Vega?

RTFA

The charges include arson and reckless endangerment.

How the hell do you manage an arson charge for burning your own farking property? It said nothing about insurance fraud, reporting it as a crime to the police, or any other unlawful intent. Or is that the "throwaway" charge they plan to scare him with so they can "negotiate" by so generously offering to drop the charge in exchange for a guilty plea on the endangerment charge?

I could see the endangerment charge sticking since it was so close to the apartment. Then you fine him for illegal burning within the city limits and the clean-up.

I had a Buick that used to catch fire every few miles and I'd have to stop and throw slush on the engine to put it out (was winter, thakfully). Thinking back on it, I should have let that POS burn.

Pave_the_Planet: SpinStopper: I had a roommate in Idaho, circa 1977, who hated her 1969 GTO so much that she put a stick of dynamite in each of the four wheel wells and tried to blow it up.

About 30 feet away from our house.

Fortunately, the dynamite didn't go off. I hear that she was successful later, using better dynamite and doing it way out in a farmer's field.

Waste of a cool car, though.

Someone should beat the shiat out of her for that.

She was a US Marine. You go first ;)

Pave_the_Planet: SpinStopper: I had a roommate in Idaho, circa 1977, who hated her 1969 GTO so much that she put a stick of dynamite in each of the four wheel wells and tried to blow it up.

About 30 feet away from our house.

Fortunately, the dynamite didn't go off. I hear that she was successful later, using better dynamite and doing it way out in a farmer's field.

Waste of a cool car, though.

Someone should beat the shiat out of her for that.

You ain't kidding.

I was hoping it was a Chevy Cavalier. Worst piece of shiat I've ever driven.

I had a Ford EA Falcon that I would have taken great pleasure in setting fire to. Bought it second hand, owned it for about 2 years, and it was only on the road for maybe 6 months of that time. It was roadworthy for even less than that.
As it was I sold it for $50. Would have been worth that and then some for the pure pleasure I would have gotten out of seeing it burn though.

Like this only I wouldn't have bothered with a club-lock in mine, I would have loved the damn thing to have been stolen.

idrow: Pave_the_Planet: SpinStopper: I had a roommate in Idaho, circa 1977, who hated her 1969 GTO so much that she put a stick of dynamite in each of the four wheel wells and tried to blow it up.

About 30 feet away from our house.

Fortunately, the dynamite didn't go off. I hear that she was successful later, using better dynamite and doing it way out in a farmer's field.

Waste of a cool car, though.

Someone should beat the shiat out of her for that.

You ain't kidding.

Better yet, it was a GTO Judge. Dammit. The real thing.

If any of you folks lived in Coeur d'Alene in 1977, you probably saw the car.

Lamune_Baba: The charges include arson and reckless endangerment.

How the hell do you manage an arson charge for burning your own farking property? It said nothing about insurance fraud, reporting it as a crime to the police, or any other unlawful intent. Or is that the "throwaway" charge they plan to scare him with so they can "negotiate" by so generously offering to drop the charge in exchange for a guilty plea on the endangerment charge?

I could see the endangerment charge sticking since it was so close to the apartment. Then you fine him for illegal burning within the city limits and the clean-up.

Easy. If he owes money on the car, it ain't his property!
If he owns it, you can't just burn shiat down in a city. There are rules, you know.

mryoop789: I know someone who I suspect of doing that.

She wanted a new car, but her husband argued that they couldn't afford it. She burned all her "how to have a good marriage" books in the kitchen sink, then drove the car around in the front yard, smashing it into every tree. Then her husband told her she had to drive it that way, all smashed up. A couple weeks later they went on vacation, leaving the smashed car behind. While they were gone, someone just happened to steal it. The cops found it burned to a crisp in the middle of a field a few miles away. Nothing else was taken, and the house wasn't broken into. Just the crappy car. Hmmmm.

You know how I know this lady is batshiat crazy?

SpinStopper: idrow: Pave_the_Planet: SpinStopper: I had a roommate in Idaho, circa 1977, who hated her 1969 GTO so much that she put a stick of dynamite in each of the four wheel wells and tried to blow it up.

About 30 feet away from our house.

Fortunately, the dynamite didn't go off. I hear that she was successful later, using better dynamite and doing it way out in a farmer's field.

Waste of a cool car, though.

Someone should beat the shiat out of her for that.

You ain't kidding.

Better yet, it was a GTO Judge. Dammit. The real thing.

If any of you folks lived in Coeur d'Alene in 1977, you probably saw the car.

Hopefully she hurts badly now knowing what one of those could bring, money-wise...

TeddyRooseveltsMustache: I was hoping it was a Chevy Cavalier. Worst piece of shiat I've ever driven.

hahahahaha.

My sister had one, sold it to some 16 year old for $250 bucks, after informing him that it leaked every major fluid except brake fluid. I've seen a guy in town here who has spinners and flames down the side, I burst out laughing in my car.

A guy told me this story: Back when he was drinking, he decided he wanted a new car. Someone told him if he cut the fuel line just so, the fuel will spray on to the engine block, start a fire and it will look like an accident.

So he nicked the fuel line and drove around drinking beer. When he ran out of beer and the car was still intact, he just pulled over, opened the hood and started throwing matches at the engine. Eventually, it caught fire and he walked down to a pay phone. He called his insurance company and told them his car was on fire and he wanted a new car. The agent replied "I'm sorry. You have a no fault policy. We don't replace your car."

Was a Ford Fiesta and honest to God, it wasn't me.

Some smarter Farker has suggested driving a doomed car around for a while and then parking it in tall grass. The catalytic converter sets the grass on fire and next thing you know, you are down at the autoplex signing away another six years of your life for something that just lost 50% of its value.

Ant: Sin_City_Superhero: What a '92 BMW might look like:


/Meh. I don't blame him.

What's wrong with it?

I'd start with the fact that it's 17 years old.

Ant: Sin_City_Superhero: What a '92 BMW might look like:


/Meh. I don't blame him.

What's wrong with it?

The car is kind of 'blah'. And I imagine that the one in the article is not in nearly as good condition as the one pictured earlier (considering that the car is so shtty that an 18 year old doesn't want it).

SpinStopper: idrow: Pave_the_Planet: SpinStopper: I had a roommate in Idaho, circa 1977, who hated her 1969 GTO so much that she put a stick of dynamite in each of the four wheel wells and tried to blow it up.

About 30 feet away from our house.

Fortunately, the dynamite didn't go off. I hear that she was successful later, using better dynamite and doing it way out in a farmer's field.

Waste of a cool car, though.

Someone should beat the shiat out of her for that.

You ain't kidding.

Better yet, it was a GTO Judge. Dammit. The real thing.

If any of you folks lived in Coeur d'Alene in 1977, you probably saw the car.

I wish you hadn't added that last bit :::wipes away tears:::

I hope she knows what the value of The Judge goes for now and I hope it hurts every time she thinks about it.

Hauptmann: I understand the reckless endangerment charge but is it arson if it's against your own property?

You forget that there is no such thing as property rights.

hockeyfarker: mryoop789: She wanted a new car, but her husband argued that they couldn't afford it. She burned all her "how to have a good marriage" books in the kitchen sink

that is my favourite part of your story.

"My husband won't buy me a new car, this marriage is ruined!"

That's my favorite part, too.

Okay, the crazy lady is my stepmom and the non-car-buying guy is my dad.
Amazingly, they're still married.
It was HILARIOUS watching her drive around town in that crunched up Ford Astro.

If it was a 1997 Ford Contour, then I would've stood beside him and cheered.

Same if you hate your outfit.
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Lamune_Baba: The charges include arson and reckless endangerment.

How the hell do you manage an arson charge for burning your own farking property? It said nothing about insurance fraud, reporting it as a crime to the police, or any other unlawful intent. Or is that the "throwaway" charge they plan to scare him with so they can "negotiate" by so generously offering to drop the charge in exchange for a guilty plea on the endangerment charge?

I could see the endangerment charge sticking since it was so close to the apartment. Then you fine him for illegal burning within the city limits and the clean-up.

Better charge him with plenty. He torched his car 2-1/2' from his apartment building. If he's not safely locked up, his neighbors would likely kill him.

mryoop789: hockeyfarker: mryoop789: She wanted a new car, but her husband argued that they couldn't afford it. She burned all her "how to have a good marriage" books in the kitchen sink

that is my favourite part of your story.

"My husband won't buy me a new car, this marriage is ruined!"

That's my favorite part, too.

Okay, the crazy lady is my stepmom and the non-car-buying guy is my dad.
Amazingly, they're still married.
It was HILARIOUS watching her drive around town in that crunched up Ford Astro.

The Astro is made by Chevy. Aerostar, perhaps?

Sin_City_Superhero

(considering that the car is so shtty that an 18 year old doesn't want it).


Of course - everyone knows that eighteen-year-olds are infallible arbiters of quality and good sense.

boyvoyeur

Holy crap, the kid looks about 13.

I would have done it to my 2001 Grand Am. Would have gotten more satisfaction out of it than the $500.00 trade-in I got because the security system was so utterly flawed that it wouldn't start the engine anymore and eventually fried the computer.

WoW tantrum kid strikes again:
Stephan hates his birthday truck (new window)