Rage Against the Machine
Aussie Dave | Oct 25, 2004 | 1 comment
Welcome to Iran – where road rage means damaging your own car.
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.
Now if only someone would set fire to their nuclear reactor.
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An Australian immigrant to Israel, Aussie Dave has been blogging since early 2003.Filed Under: General
Yeah, I remember a story like this in News of the Weird about 10 years ago. In this case, the police were called to the side of the highway, where an enraged motorist had shot out all of his own tires with a pistol, then emptied the rest of the clip into the engine, then smashed all his windows with a crowbar. When the cops got there, he was smashing and denting what was left of his car. They said he wasn’t under the influence of any drugs; he was just extremely angry. I’ve felt like that.