America Isn’t the Only Country with Creative Individuals
Italian police have arrested a deranged man with a grudge against DaimlerChrysler “smart cars” after he torched 15 of them in a summer rampage.“I can’t stand the sight of smart cars,” police quoted the man as saying.
The 25-year-old set fire to the 15 parked smarts, as well as 15 other cars, in Rome over the past two months, using a cigarette lighter with a powerful flame, police said. The damage amounts to almost half a million euros’ worth. He developed the grudge against the compact, eco-friendly cars after authorities seized two of his own smarts for traffic and parking offences.
Doctors have diagnosed the man as psychologically unhinged and a danger to society.
I wonder how long it took to make that diagnosis. I think there are a better ways to get at Daimler then too set fire to cars owned by average citizens, don’t you?