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June 30, 2008
German Guy Torches His Own Car To Protest Gas Prices
By Jen Dunnaway
Editor
Some unemployed guy drove his ‘95 BMW 3-series onto the lawn of the Frankfurt convention center and torched it in protest of high gas prices, which have reached about $9.40 a gallon in Germany. Uh, way to make a point, man. He said he couldn’t afford to run it anymore, but no word on how much $9.40/gallon gas was used to douse the vehicle before setting it alight.
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Dhillaz
Jul 16, 2008 at 12:50 am
Did he notice how much petrol he could buy if he just sold his 3-series and got a cheaper, smaller car instead of torching it?
Anonymous
Jul 15, 2008 at 11:28 pm
Look’s like a plate from Minnesota
Corey
Jul 5, 2008 at 6:11 am
It’s funny how people who try to insult won’t post a name or an email. Show the guts of true human beings.
J-S
Jul 4, 2008 at 6:24 pm
Like henri said, true story but wrong picture…..anyway… poor BMW…
U R GAY.
Jul 4, 2008 at 4:35 am
Jen is a dumb bitch. Thats clearly a 2000-2004 BMW 3 series.
Anonymous
Jul 4, 2008 at 1:07 am
Corey you’re a fucking douchebag.
Corey
Jul 3, 2008 at 11:00 pm
Who gives a shit if this isn’t the actualy burning BMW 2 Series. It’s the fact of the matter that it actually happened. Do you morons need physical proof to believe anything or can you open a fucking newspaper and read. The world has come to a complete state of unintelligence. May God have mercy on your pitiful souls.
henri
Jul 3, 2008 at 5:10 pm
The story is real but the picture is wrong
go look on CNN http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/27/germany.gas.ap/index.html?imw=Y
carl
Jul 3, 2008 at 4:01 pm
just ride the bus Germany is notorious for them
Anonymous
Jul 3, 2008 at 4:00 pm
That is not a 1995 in the picture it is also on pavement
Anonymous
Jul 3, 2008 at 11:33 am
I wonder how much gas he would have been able to buy if had just sold the BMW and bought a motorcycle.
Elio
Jul 3, 2008 at 12:57 am
Lol chill put ur mouse over the pic and read the caption GENIUSES
Jared
Jul 2, 2008 at 10:20 pm
wow real fucking cool guys, ITS A MINNESOTA FUCKING PLATE DUMBASSES. This was my vehicle in which the headlights started an electrical fire. I know I didn’t copyright it but still, not cool.
CyberKatt420
Jul 2, 2008 at 9:18 pm
Give me a break if you’re going to make up a story at least use a photo of a REAL GERMAN AUTO….that plate says it all!! its either from here (THE Continental U.S.) or Ontario (Canada you guys!!) the Germans don’t use plates like we do! But still what a waste of a once fine machine!
Anonymous
Jul 2, 2008 at 7:38 pm
they used this picture cuz they werent in fucckin germany to get the actual one u n00bs
scrizz
Jul 2, 2008 at 5:44 pm
you guys are retarded, IF someone was around at 7:30 AM (would you be?) to snap a pic of the burning bimmer in germany, then they’d post that presumably poor quality cell phone picture. But since your lazy ass was sleeping in and not catching the first flight to germany one you heard gas was 9.40, you missed the real burning BMW. so go burn up your car…with yourselves inside.
rool
Jul 2, 2008 at 5:17 pm
only thinking about gas prices, and not about emissions… tssk.
HAHAHAHA
Jul 2, 2008 at 2:18 pm
BURN BMW BURN
mon
Jul 2, 2008 at 1:36 pm
You should have done some photoshop magic on this picture before posting this one. To make it believable or realistic, to say the least. People have become more intelligent nowadays, more than you thought so. Hope you will come up with a better blog next time like you’ve always done before this one.
Dan
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:39 am
Maybe the story is true , but they didn’t get a picture of the actual car burning in Germany so they used a random picture of a bmw burning??
kevin
Jul 2, 2008 at 11:37 am
i love how EVERYONE thats commented on this article..has repeated the EXACT same thing, you people must feel damn brilliant repeating what someone else has said…thats what i flipping hate about comments nowa days..
yeaWateva
Jul 2, 2008 at 10:13 am
fake ass…those are not german plates…cardomain needs to check your people for puttin up such bullshit just get people talkin…the may be true, but the pic says somethin else.
steve
Jul 2, 2008 at 7:03 am
it’s not a 95 because it would be an e36 it’s the 2000 to 2005 body e46 what a shame that probably way a nice car
G
Jul 2, 2008 at 6:11 am
is that a minnesota liscense plate on the back???
Andrew
Jul 2, 2008 at 4:20 am
So weres the Frankfurt convention center? fake picture.
Sam
Jul 2, 2008 at 3:20 am
WTF?
Cody
Jul 2, 2008 at 1:35 am
The story might be true, but the pic is not.
BoB
Jul 2, 2008 at 1:03 am
HA ThIS iS SO FAAKEE! OnLy AmerIcans are stupid enough to blow up cars. europeans are much smarter.
brady bushby
Jul 2, 2008 at 12:52 am
i dont think the taillights would be on if the car was on fire that bad….and how come the smoke is going to the left and the fire is going to the right…two different wind currents or what?
shitface
Jul 1, 2008 at 11:13 pm
theres no way thats a 95 3-series thats more like 2003 or 2004 and yeah those minnesota plates clearly means its not in germany!!
Anonymous
Jul 1, 2008 at 10:11 pm
ah, what? Nice Minnesota plates
dAn
Jul 1, 2008 at 8:43 pm
Yeh i totally agree with everyone on this, so fake!! it just looks like it had an engine fire, seeing that only the front end’s on fire, and the lights are on like someone was driving it and pulled over seeing the smoke.
That dosent suprise me that some one would set a BMW on fire, theres all kinds of crazy people out there with nice cars that shouldnt have them lol
For Real
Jul 1, 2008 at 8:27 pm
this story is just something someone made up because that definitely not a 95 3series and its not in Germany because the car has minnesota tags, and no reasonable person would set a perfectly good bmw on fire, especially someone who was unemployed, they sell it for a cheaper more effecient car and have some money let over for gas, something mechanical probably happened to this car.
Europian
Jul 1, 2008 at 8:22 pm
This looks like ‘99 + BMW, and i dont know if this is an actual picture of the same BMW this guy burned, then by looking at the plates it doesnt look like it’s in Germany!.
But gas prices r ok, in Canada, we pay 1.30$ a liter!Thats not that bad!
Rhett
Jul 1, 2008 at 7:41 pm
That’s definitely newer than a ‘95 bmw
Anonymous
Jul 1, 2008 at 7:13 pm
he coulda have just given the car for me and lit himself on fire or something?
Rayden
Jul 1, 2008 at 8:19 am
Aaaaaaaaahhhh BMW ohhh no. why the heck did he do that for.
SpeedCanHurt
Jul 1, 2008 at 3:41 am
Well, I know that I feel like setting fire to somebody elses car every time I go to fill up… but thats coz I’ll be sitting there contemplating what I’m going to have to go without coz I’ve just spent $170 filling up the tank on my nice economical camry, which I need to get to college every day, and somebody drives into the petrol station in a brand-new hummer or porsche cayenne or something ridiculously thirsty like that. Trust me, you have it pretty good in america.
Secret Squirrel
Jun 30, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Right… how many tanks of gas would a non burned car, a nice BMW at that, have made him on a private sale?!?!? Knucklehead…
cknarf
Jun 30, 2008 at 8:29 pm
I’d burn a JUNK car. not my driveable, nice-lookin’ BMW
Eric
Jun 30, 2008 at 5:29 pm
Poor guy snapped, I have a little bit better IDEA! Dont drive your car anywhere!!! but i guess thats not a problem now LOL. Why protest high gas prices and burn a perfectly good BIMMER! just live your life, and find another way other than paying 9.00 dollars a gallon! you burning your car isnt gonna fix a damn thing sorry!