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Old 10-23-2004, 04:26 AM
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Driver Sees Red and Torches His Car
Figured a little light-hearted news might be a nice!

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Driver Sees Red and Torches His Car

Thu Oct 21,11:47 AM ET Oddly Enough - Reuters

TEHRAN (Reuters) - An incensed Iranian motorist doused his car in petrol and set it ablaze with a match after picking up a parking ticket, media reported Wednesday.

The ISNA student news agency posted photographs of the charred shell of the car on its Web site and quoted witnesses describing the driver's frantic but fruitless pleas to the parking attendant not to issue a ticket.

"Extremely angry, he took a jerrycan of petrol out of the boot and set fire to his car," ISNA quoted a witness in poor south Tehran as saying.

Fines have increased heavily since March in an attempt to bring Iran's reckless drivers into line. Road rage is common on the gridlocked streets of Tehran.
Imagine that! If he got that pissed over a parking ticket...I don't even want to imagine when he gets road rage!
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Old 10-25-2004, 01:45 AM
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Has someone told this guy that just because he torched his car it doesn't make the parking ticket go away?

What a dumbass. Not only does he have to pay for the ticket, but now he has to get a new car. I can also imagine lighting a car on fire in public will gather some kind of ticket/fee, too. Glad I didn't come from that gene pool.
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Old 10-25-2004, 04:05 AM
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It's just so crazy. Sometimes people....sigh they just make me wonder. Clearly not everything is turned on upstairs!
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Old 10-25-2004, 03:53 PM
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So, like....what did he think torching his car would do? Make the ticket vanish? Make the parking attendant buy him a new car? Get news coverage? Well, the last one came true.
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Old 10-25-2004, 04:55 PM
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......right.

Just because you no longer HAVE a car does not mean you are exempt from paying a fine issued to you for parking what WAS your car in an inappropriate place.

Was he hoping to get off by pleas of insanity?
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