Bizarre News: Tired of gas prices, man burns BMW

**Jan2X** · July 1st, 2008 09:44 AM

just found this breaking news..

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...e/5861294.html

grabe... mangyari kaya satin to?

**Jan2X** · July 1st, 2008 09:49 AM

paste ko na din pla yung buong news, maikli lng naman eh.

[SIZE=1]June 27, 2008, 10:50PM
[/SIZE][SIZE=5]Tired of gas prices, man burns BMW[/SIZE]
Associated Press

[SIZE=5][SIZE=3]BERLIN — A German man doused his BMW with gasoline and torched it on Friday in protest of skyrocketing fuel costs, police said.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]The unemployed 30-year-old drove the 1995 BMW 3-series sedan onto the lawn outside Frankfurt's convention center, police spokesman Karlheinz Wagner said.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]He then jumped out, emptied a canister of gas over the vehicle and set fire to it, Wagner said. By the time the fire department got to the scene, the car was entirely burned out.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]The man, whose name was being withheld because he has not been charged with a crime, told police that gas prices were so high he could no longer afford to drive the vehicle.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=3]Gasoline prices have risen steadily in Germany; a liter of regular gasoline now costs the equivalent of about $9.40 per gallon.[/SIZE]
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**tidus1203** · July 2nd, 2008 11:20 AM

Na he was just being stupid. I would just sell it kung di kayang gamitin. Yun lang...

**spinmaster** · July 2nd, 2008 06:39 PM

sana binigay na lang sa akin ang car.

**StraightSix** · July 3rd, 2008 02:22 AM

He's unemployed. He's supposed to not afford to drive any kind of car.

**karlbo** · July 3rd, 2008 03:24 AM

wow bigtime...

unemployed pa yung lagay na yun ahhh..

**chuaed** · July 3rd, 2008 06:10 AM

Should have watched Top Gear

Season 11 Episode 1

BMW M3 440break horse power 4 liter V8
versus
Toyota Prius 1.5 Liter 4 Cylinder
10 Laps of the track lets see which one uses the least fuel...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKTOyiKLARk"]YouTube - Prius More Enviromentally Damaging Than BMW M3[/ame]

Toyota Prius 17.2 mpg
BMW M3 19.4 mpg

it isn't what you drive that matters, its how you drive it...