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Van fire

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A mate had his bus torched last night! Parked on his front drive - house got damaged too.

It went from this:

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to this:

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At least he doesn't park his 73T there. Mindless crackheads!
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Sh*t, that's bad news. Odd that the van was torched, not the Porsche. As it carries his business name, I'd be looking at disgruntled customers...
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The Porsche wasn't parked there last night. Maybe someone broke in and couldn't find anything to steal so they torched it instead? I would say with 100% confidence that it wasn't an unhappy customer!
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Mindless - not nice at all
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Tossers. Can’t begin to understand what goes through the head of someone who does this.


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I'm stunned. An attack on someone who is trying to make an honest living.
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Envy?
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Damage to production cars leaves me cold ( they can be replaced ), but this is pure spite. Clearly a lot of love in that van and a business vehicle too. WTF!
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Ralph wrote:The Porsche wasn't parked there last night. Maybe someone broke in and couldn't find anything to steal so they torched it instead? I would say with 100% confidence that it wasn't an unhappy customer!
Jealous rivals, maybe... Or just plain jealous people who aren't prepared to work hard to get the funds for something like this. :evil:
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DustyM wrote:Tossers. Can’t begin to understand what goes through the head of someone who does this.


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Maybe he was shagging some one else's wife and got found out?
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That’s bad.

How does he know it was torched and didn’t just have a fuel leak/electrical fire?
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Gary71 wrote: How does he know it was torched and didn’t just have a fuel leak/electrical fire?
He woke at 3.00am to find it on fire - at this time it had been parked for 8 hours. A car dealer at the end of the road had 3 windscreens smashed earlier in the night and fire crew had been called out for 2 similar incidents recently!
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Where is this?
Or are there mindless envious thugs everywhere?
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Seems to be becoming more frequent now. Lad who works for me had his done last weekend along with 3 others on the same estate. Apparently it was a local 14 year old lad very well known to the local rozzers

W****** all of them. Should be put in the van they torched and torch it again
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