Kid Burns His $200,000 Ferrari So His Dad Will Buy Him The Newer Model
Yahoo – In a bizarre case out of Europe, a 20-year-old Swiss man reportedly set fire to a Ferrari 458 Italia given to him by his father in a half-baked scheme to use the insurance money to upgrade to a new model. Incredibly, the spoiled brat is said to have had 14 other cars (including a Lamborghini) at his disposal in addition to a property portfolio worth close to $30 million and a monthly allowance that fluctuated between $5,000 and $10,000. As Swiss publication 20 Minutes first reported, the 20-year-old in March of 2014 visited a dealership to get his car valued so that he could trade it in for a new model, possibly the 458 Speciale which went on sale about then. The quote he received was $193,500, which wasn’t enough to cover the cost of the new model. It’s alleged the man was short of funds at the time so one of the dealers suggested he destroy his car in order to claim the insurance value, which presumably was higher than the quoted value. Three accomplices were recruited, including a person working at the dealership, and to avoid suspicion the group crossed the border into Germany to do the dirty deed. Once they found a quiet area, the 20-year-old and one of the accomplices visited a massage parlor while the other two set fire to the car. However, security camera footage and telephone recordings led to a prompt arrest of those involved. In court, the 20-year-old said he didn’t have the courage to tell his father that he no longer liked his gifted Ferrari.
I cant imagine a story of a bigger spoiled brat than this. Torching a $193,500 2014 Ferrari because you wanted the 2015 model is just the biggest dickhead move ever. But coming in second place is your boy KFC. Quick little tale about my most spoiled moment ever.
I was in 7th, maybe 8th grade. I had just moved to Westchester from the Bronx and I already felt like the poor kid being surrounded by some of the new kids that I met. They had fancy cars and houses and shit and I did not. They also all had fucking awesome bikes. GTs and Dynos. Haros. Very expensive, very unnecessary bikes for kids our age. And so my parents got me a Royce Union. Which was as shitty as it gets man. I vividly remember looking at all the nice bikes and my mom being like “What about that one?” and it was like all the way in the back corner. Like some Charlie Brown Christmas tree. I think the dude at the bike store even felt bad selling it because he knew I was gonna be the kid with the poor people bike. So I rode around in a bootleg Tommy Hilfiger sweatshirt from Co-Op City and this shitty bike.
Where I lived in Pelham, we were this real bougie white town surrounded by Mount Vernon, New Rochelle and the Bronx. So all these black kids from those town would come into ours and steal our bikes since we were all careless idiots. So first I had the plan that I would just ditch the bike and stage a robbery and get rid of the Royce Union that way. But then I’d get in way too much trouble for letting my bike get stolen. So me and my friends came up with the brilliant idea that I should intentionally break my bike and tell my parents that it was unsafe to ride such a shitty bike when we’re jumping off of ramps and trying tricks and shit like that. So we just absolutely decimated the thing. At first it started as like popping the tire and bending the rims. Eventually we all just took turns body slamming this thing into the pavement. I ended up wheeling home this mangled hunk of metal. It looked like it had been run through a trash compactor. I dont even remember what I said to my parents or what they said to me. There was no way I could have done this much damage to a bike. But I just spun it as saying it was unsafe and whatnot.
Long story short for my birthday or some shit she ended up getting me a fire Mongoose. Black purple and yellow. Finally I felt cool and I fit in. Like 2 months later some black kids from Mount Vernon stole it. Classic dumb white Westchester kid.
Not quite on the same level as torching a 200,000 dollar sports car but its kind of comparable. Same idea behind it all. Spoiled kid wanting cool unnecessary toy and concocting horrible, spoiled plots to get them. At least mine worked for like 1 month or 2.