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19-Year Old Sets Own Ferrari On Fire Because He Wanted A New One
On October 24, 2014, the 19-year old son of a wealthy Swiss businessman walked into a brothel in the Bavarian town of Augsburg.
Although by almost any standard he led a rather splendid existence, on this particular night he had reached his breaking point. The problem: he drove a 2011 Ferrari 458 Italia.

That may look nice enough, but the issue is that there’s a 2014 Ferrari Italia, and let’s face it, no one - and we mean no one - would want to be caught dead in the vehicle shown above when the one shown below is just waiting to be driven off the lot.

Of course this is exactly the type of situation that insurance - or, more acurately, insurance fraud - is for.
And so this young man - allegedly with the help of the Ferrari dealer - did what anyone would do in this situation: he drove to Bavaria, went to see a prostitute (one needs an alibi), and paid two accomplices $15,000 to douse the old junker in gasoline and light it on fire.
Part of the plan worked. From Tages-Anzeiger (Google translated):
He visited the neighboring brothel with other colleagues. Meanwhile, the two helpers poured a gasoline-nitro-mixture to the leather seats of the black sport car and set it on fire. The car exploded with a loud bang and burned out.
He even remembered to remove "the expensive specialty rims and carbon fiber parts."
Initially, authorities came to the conclusion that the incident was retaliation for unpaid hooker fees. From 20 Minutes (Google translated from French):
Initially, the Bavarian authorities believed a settlement account in prostitution.
Yes, a "settlement account in prostitution," but security camera footage and phone records told a different story. Ultimately, investigators concluded that this was all a not-so-elaborate ploy to collect the insurance money on the way to buying the newer model.
Asked by a judge why he had gone to such lengths given that his father had bought him 14 other cars (including a Lamborghini) as well as "several properties" worth in excess of $25 million, he confessed that although his monthly allowance (between CHF5,000 and CHF10,000) was generous enough, it wasn't sufficient to cover the difference between the 2011 and the 2014 458s and he didn't feel comfortable telling his father the truth - namely, that the 2011 458 "no longer pleased him."
For his troubles, the young man received 30 months of probabtion and a €30,000 fine. There was no word on whether he was able to get the 2014 Speciale.
So although we think the moral of the story is quite obvious here, we'll spell it out for you anyway: for anyone who thinks they're having a bad day just remember that it could always be worse. You could be driving a 2011 Ferrari 458 Italia.
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Eat the rich.....
with a side of fries...
This brings to mind Aristotle's cyclical theories on democracy:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anacyclosis
Behavior such as this is eerily well described by the "beginning of oligarchy" segment of the Anacyclosis theory.
Dumb fuck, he could have just bought a TESLA and waited.
You don't get it. His DRAFT card was inside. It was URGENT.
Dad should have asked the judge to throw him in jail for at least 6 to 12 months for arson and insurance fraud.
Sounds to me like this could be a symtom of gender identity crisis. He just needs to cut it off and be hero
What does it profit a man to gain the whole world and lose his soul. Mark 8:36
Guess this just goes to show you that money can't buy happiness. No matter what my financial situation is when my 2 year old is old enough to drive, he will be getting something reliable(and slow....) to get him to and from school and the job he will have to get to pay me for his car insurance. My parents made me do that when I turned 16, and I feel like I'm a better person because of it. The problem isn't so much an 'eat the rich' thing like the poster above, the problem is piss poor parenting, he was probably raised by very forms of hired help his whole life.
You don't have to be rich to be a spoiled little shit. I've seen plenty of lower middle class kids with a pretty unhealthy sense of entitlement.
Money doesn't buy you happiness. Most of my clients are pretty damn miserable.
They can at least be miserable in extreme comfort though.
Say what you will, I'd much rather be sobbing in a 458 than on a bicycle.
What a tool the kid is, the 458 is nicer than the speciale anyway.
Money can't buy you happiness...but it sure makes misery a lot more tolerable.
Ferrari 451?
I live in various parts of the Alps, there are some weird ass rich kids in that part of Europe.
Avoid them
This guy must be Veruca Salt's second cousin.
Don't care how... I want it now!
why do i think a swiss immigrant worker or native office cleaner wouldn't have gotten off for attempted insurance fraud of this magnitude (not to mention the gasoline and nitro explosion)?
of course they would have to burn their house down and lie about the contents to get the value.
Wow... you think there will still be cars around in 14 years? I figure we'll be lucky if a small persentage of humanity survives at anything beyond stone age levels.....
Rich kids car's lives matter.
What a fucking putz...and he got no jail time for conspiricay to defraud and arson? I guess its nice to be a rich kid in Switzerland.
Dad should have asked the judge to throw him in jail for at least 6 to 12 months for arson and insurance fraud.
Somehow .... I'm betting the character flaws aren't limited to Junior.....
You don't care for me, I don't care about that
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jbdw43yvTY
Was actually Polybius. The Greek who was super sweet on Roman Civic virtue.
Was actually Polybius. The Greek who was super sweet on Roman Civic virtue.
Hey, maybe anacyclosis will explain away this latest triumph of Swedish multi-culturalism.http://moonbattery.com/?p=61837
It certainly explains the lasting consequences of white colonialism in many parts of the world.
what, like paved roads?
dup
Yeah, like brown, black, red and yellow never colonized anything.
Shhhh1 Don't point out their flaws, they are very sensitive about them.
The story we reference above is pretty incredible, get this: In an IKEA near Stockholm, an Eritrean muslim "asylum seeker" grabs a knife and murders a mother and her son, beheading at least one of them. So what does IKEA do? They remove knives from the shelves! What does law enforcement do? They rush to protect "migrants" from "the dark forces of society"!!! WOW WOW WOW. This explains a lot Eirik Marx-Leninsson, it really does. White colonialism is to blame, right?http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/08/muslim-asylum-seeker-beheads-ike...
The answer is surrender....and determining your funeral plans. Anything else would be hateful and disrespectful to the religion of peace.
They would expect no less of us if Martians invaded.
Team IKEA is also a gun free zone.
Don't forget Cameron saying that England has too many white christian faces.
That sounds like something someone else said about some other people some time back.
Should have dumped it in that Colorado river
Like a dark pool treasury
...and a fine Chianti.
and some fava beans...
He could have parked his Ferrari in Camden, New Jersey. Homies love Ferraris and hoes.
It's hookers and BLOW, not hookers and BURN.
Dumbass.
(him, not you)
>> Eat the rich...
Ease up buster, these are the jobs creators. If you eat them we will have no jobs. Then what are you going to do? Do you ever stop to think about that shit?
Job creators? Who the hell wants a job? Jobs are for losers. So, yeah! Eat the Rich.
For those who fear overpopulation, I also say Eat Chinese.
No, Chinese will eat you first (and your dog)...
Why? You'll just be hungry again in half an hour.
Greatbeard - No. The job creators are the salesman selling shit to this tard based on his hubris. Big cartel companies piss money away like water too.
I sell them shit and am thanked for it by such. Win win man.
Generational wealth always gets frittered away at some point.
True that. For instance this rich kid created work for the fire fighters. And for workers in car and chemical industries. Not to mention people in the legal industry. All with a snap of a finger.
too much transfat , clogs the poors.
(Bruce Jenner joke here)
"Sorry I'm late... Tranny problems." - BJ
too much transfat , clogs the poors.
Unclog the poors; set them on the rich.
We were all embarrased by our parents at some point. Really, making your son drive a three year old ferrari? How embarssing is that?
num! num! num!
The problem is they are a lot like Chinese food, and an hour later you are right back at the fridge looking for some more.
Hey - the kid is producing jobs and factory orders! We need them to all start burning down their houses and ALL their cars (and yachts too - don't forget the mega yachts!).
Clearly suffering from kleine schwanz disease.
In his defence, the new version does have cool striping stickers on the hood.
But surely he could have donated the car to #blacklivesmatter or the SPLC and help improve social justice, or some shit.
that's raycis. black people and jew lawyers deserve updated models too.
So the jew lawyers are southern and poor, eh? Interesting....
Did insurance pay out?
No, but the taxpayers will have to buy him a new one.
The economy is far to fragile to chance the negative effects on the locals if they were to see this son of a rich man walking along side the road. What would they think? Is it possible they would assume the end was near? The tragedy that would befall the economy, to see stupidity and corruption incur loss and consequence. What possible hope would it leave them with?
Of course, the responsible thing is to take from the taxpayer to pay for such things that would keep the illusion of prosperity alive, for their own good...
I just had a Krugasm
He needs a good beating.
He needs to be dropped off in the woods with nothing but a bow and arrows, MREs and a steel and a flint for about a month. Maybe a sleeping bag.
And a Ferrari and a couple of prostitutes.
Just for yuks, make sure those woods are deep in hillbilly country. It'll be good for the lad's self-esteem to learn what a pretty mouth he has.
You forgot the Comfy Chair.
You are a kind and decent man. I would have dropped him off in the Anza-borrego desert in only his skivvies. Your way is better because in a month he may emerge as a better man. My way would only give a few creatures an unexpected protein treat.
Miffed
I love you but you should google map the Anza Borrego.
Even that wasteland is not what it was, in the day. It ain't a desert anymore... Tank Girl
Well then, may he walk out with a most unpleasant sunburn! ;-)
A friend of mine had two well trained search and rescue dogs that were involved with a few lost hiker cases there. The worst cases were when too many people had looked before calling her and by then the trail was so obliterated the dogs couldn't follow it. The remains of said cases were sometimes found years later.
My favorite Tank Man:
http://youtu.be/3vESIVemfG8
He was killed but did not hurt anyone though the media portrayed him as a crazed villain. Another one I couldn't help.
I love you too monad.
Miffed
James Bond did just that in a recent movie, leaving the guy with a can of 50-weight to drink!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8vxHwNHyww&t=0m33s
After 5 nights in the brand new sleeping bag he will burn that too.
"He needs a good beating."
So does his dad.
Could somebody please help us out and Name That Oligarch"?
Life's a bitch
The "son" is a bitch.
He coulda had a 1990's Sonoma Beesh.
Now that is the definition of spoiled brat.
Hang wealthy Swiss businessman.
Somebody is going to get a good talking-to when he gets home. Tut tut.
He has the right attitude, he'll one day be chief of the Great Northern Tribe of rich jagoffs.
Fucking idiot has bad taste
Real rich people drive Bugatti Veyrons
Truly rich people don't drive at all...they are driven.
Not my billionaire boss when I worked in Luxembourg. He had an E-type Jag as his favourite and his everyday car was an Audi A8 quattro.
You will be losing against Koenigsegg, in a Veyron! What can be more embarassing?
Tough life he leads
Wow a ferrari that didnt set itself on fire this time.
This story is really about the bullshit of insurance companies not covering aftermarket parts:
"He even remembered to remove "the expensive specialty rims and carbon fiber parts."
Spare the rod Spoil the child
In that fucked-up elite world, you get the 'rod only if you TAKE the rod.
There are several ways to take that statement, and all are correct.
I would like to be there on the day that young man meets reality face to face, I might even be willing to make the introduction.
19 years old and his allowance was only $X. HAHAHAHA!
Allowance? At 19? This world has gone to shit.
We had a rich kid in high school and he was snubbed because he didnt earn it. Kids now don't care about that. As long as they have whatever the trinket of the day is they are envied.
Zero humility bitches.
BLACK LIVES MATTER.
To who?
CVS
now that was a "hoot"
When what you want is moar, you never get what you want.
I don't want to laugh but I just can't help it.
Nothing like a motivated Speciale buyer. That car seems to produce serious gotta have it in a lot of people. Problem is, the 2011 458 might be worth $220k in trade but the Speciale runs around $395k.........
Veyron runs about 1.2 million US dollars.
Top speed over 250 MPH not KPH, MILES per HOUR
as tested by Top Gear on German autobahn
Yes, but a Polaris Slingshot would be more fun!
https://images.search.yahoo.com/yhs/search?p=Polaris+Slingshot&fr=yhs-mo...
Yeah but the Ferrari competition for that is the LaFerrari. I got a nice up close on one of them at the last COTA event in July.
http://i58.tinypic.com/ionpzl.jpg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udfhBjR-FtA
Rodney!
Tyler...Get a picture of this douche bag...I want to see if this kid can pull any tail without the car...
I kinda feel sorry for this kid. He sounds like a prieta, a hungry ghost. Destined to always get a new toy a little after he's become bored with his old ones. It's not a very happy way to go through life, no matter how many Ferraris he burns or prostitutes he bangs. Nothing wrong with being rich, but if all your fulfillment comes from stuff instead of character, you'll never be happy no matter what you possess.
And for all the people who think he needs a good beating... it sounds like his parents are the ones who need a good beating for raising him like that.
I said the same below, you said it better and briefer!
Nice one!
Let's not forget that there's millions and millions of poor people who act exactly the same way. Always buying shit they don't need on money they don't have, separated from this dumb bastard kid not in attitude but merely in the price of the toys acquired and then disgarded just as quickly.
Our sick society has become peerless at manufacturing sick people.
Both he and his parents need a good beating -and worse. I don't feel sorry for this piece of shit slime. Save your sympathies for a couple of billion others more deserving -start with the tens of millions of deaths, orphans and refugees we have created in the 7 countries we have wrongly invaded and destroyed since 911 to support the decadance and criminality of these evil Banksters and their families.
The new car looks douchier than the old one.
I would advise dad to cut his son off, but we all know that would never enter anyone's mind, and the kid has enough shit that he could sell it and live off the proceeds the rest of his life.
As much as I want to hate him, I feel sorry for him. The consumer life is empty because he has been sheilded from living a real life and learning real life lessons. He knows he has no chance of growing up to be an adult, he tries to fill the void with cars, and he is trapped.
He will never know the satisfaction of being competent, of watching his work create something and pay off.
Spoiled brat, sad human. You think you want his resources, you don't.
He will probably never know what it means to love or be loved.
FFS - Please say you were being sarcastic
"The new car looks douchier than the old one" Yep, I thought the same.
Sad little guy.
Reads like the hookers spent more time raising this kid than the parents.
Need names and home addresses - this fucking asshole needs some fame.
this kid deserves to burn to death in a fiat full of.... fiat.
http://www.wreckedexotics.com/ferrari/458/speciale
He exemplifies the type of Luciferian psychopaths who run Wall Street. Time for a revolution. I think we have sufficent lamp posts available to string up these human vermin vampire scum.
Heaven forbid I be happy with what I own.
What with the blackjack, and hookers.
I worked in Luxembourg for a Swiss Guy named Bertram Pohl. Heir to the Wella fortune (swiss company makers of hair shit)..
Bertram wanted something to do so bought 3 DC-8's freighters and we used to fly freight around the world. WE use to fly engine blocks from Luxembourg to Detroit , twice a week.
He was 40 years old at the time (1998) and if you saw him you would never know he was a BILLIONAIRE. Bacherlor frumpy looking an always had cigarette hanging out of his mouth and ashes all over his white shirt. I was dating a girl and once he invited us all over the bar for a drink. My girlfriend said , ''who is that dumpy looking guy'? I said he is my billionaire boss. I watched her jaw drop.
Anyway after 3 years he kept going deeper into debt with the company and he used to call his mother down in Switzerland and she would come up in her chaufferu driven Rolls and give him 10 or 15 million to keep the business going.
Then in 2000 she pullled the rug out and said ''NO MORE"". So he liquidate the company (CARGO LION INC).
He did pay us a lot more than the going rates , I started at over 100k for flight engineer. When the company went tits up, he paid EVERYONE off plus a nice bonuse and told us ''Sorry, I hate to do this'''.
Best guy I ever worked for.
Of course HE will never be poor. Last I heard he started another business ,something to do with tank trucks.
He's not the guy who raised everyone's salary to $70k is he???
Too bad it takes more than money to make a successful business.
He was a nice guy but bad businessman.. EVeryone liked him but he was too nice. He used to joke ''Want to make a small fortune in aviation? Start with a large one
Should've bought a Tesla instead.
There are two known ways to create a psychopath. 1) Abuse the living hell out of the child (luckily most abused kids don't turn into psychos but some will). 2) Raise the child to believe that his interests are primary over everyone and everything else.
I was at a shallow pool /petting zoo portion of an aquarium once full of Japanese and a couple of American kids. One of the American kids, about 9 yo, decided to pull out a pencil and kill an urchin. The Japanese kids stood in silent horror and a couple began to cry. When the livid staff arrived and told the kid that he had killed the animal his response was "so". The mother then went on a big diatribe about how her son's behavior was completely exceptable because he "was just trying to learn".
I imagine that kid is staring in a mirror and has his dick tucked between his legs right now.
The kid sounded like good USA presidential material
@MsNo - Sad story that I hated to read, but it underscores the point that the parents are the enablers. The child has no respect for life and believes there will never be consequences for his actions.
Nothing beat closing comment of the article heh ;).
Why would anyone want to drive a 2011 piece of crap?
Sounds like he could have a great career as the poster child for Keynesian Economics. But don’t expect Paul Krugman to give up his Mr. December position on the calendar.
That car looks like it trims my silver cactus spines off my face, by the way throw junior on a cactus for starters.
Make him drive a car that explodes on him like my first one did. I was out in time, make sure he stays in.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIy7HcwVK3E
Living in Cactus Country as you, I totally "get" it! Upvoted
Since when do the things people WANT have ANYTHING to do with what they NEED?
The rims and brake pads look salvageable, so it's still worth more than my 2014 Honda.
Mr. Bastiat would be so proud of the little Swiss prick!
Thank goodness the poor swiss ne're-do-well didn't take the "broken window theory" to an extreme by setting a whore on fire because he wanted a better looking substitute!!!
The moral of the story is that everyone is justified in whatever they do if they feel they deserve better.
Kill someone to take their shoes or burn your car so you can get a new one.
We are really grand at rationalizing and justifying EVERYTHING we do. Ultimately it is all to feed how we feel about ourselves, our self esteem as our master. As the importance of self esteem grows, so also does our psychopathic attitudes. Those who think the most highly of themselves necessarily feel every other person is deficient in comparison. Ultimately they are killers, as no other life has the importance of their own...none...not even close. Self esteem obsession is a dangerous addiction whereas contentment is the opposite. For some reason though, many can't tell them apart.
Nah man it's just the opposite. Self-esteem is just another way of saying self-respect; progressives hijacked the concept by building a worldview where self-respect (or esteem) comes from external validation, rather than internal character development. I'd say that actions like these come from having no self-respect. It's impossible to have respect for others unless you first have respect for yourself, and this kid is just trying to fill that void with pathological acquisitiveness.
Problem Reaction Solution?
Sell Movie Rights Pronto-!
Refreshing to see that it isn't just the corrupt Chinese's offspring.
Although they try to get away with murder, literally.
the poor kid...he didn't feel comfortable going to his father with his problems
You are going to see assholes like this hanging from lightpoles when the shit eventually hits the fan . . . .
Not in Switzerland, EVER.
USA ? Yes
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Not in Switzerland, EVER.
USA ? Yes
Old rich stays rich, New rich aren't too bright.
It won't take much resource to solve a crime commited by a dumb as fuck immature 19 years old brat. I bet he is still breast feeded.
How about ripping his arms off and beating him to death with them?
If I could afford it, I still wouldn't drive a Ferrari. Not my style. My ram is all I need.
Should I have children, in 16 years they can have a truck. My current one.
What's really odd is I perused a large number of articles (even translated the original Swiss news piece) and in not a single one did I find out the name of either the father or the son.
How much money do you need to have to keep your name out of the press these days?
so blowing it on prostitutes, expensive cars...care to guess drugs? so what's new?
Did he get what he wanted?
If it worked, he's a smart kid.
Dumb dad, but smart kid.
Don't need a 400hp Ferrari car.
I prefer my 100hp pipistrel.
There is no replacement for displacement, honestann. One can never have enough horsepower, ever!
NOTE: You have to watch _Two Lane Blacktop_ to understand horsepower properly.
HP is for show. Torque is for go.
More HP == more weight == not desired by me. My pipistrel weighs about 280kg (620 pounds).
That's about 1/5 the weight of a normal car. So in terms of HP per weight, I suppose that means my 100hp is the equivalent of 500hp... fairly adequate I'd say. Wouldn't you?
Frankly, I'm surprised by that number! I'm very surprised it is anywhere near that high. So much so, that I wonder whether I made some kind of utterly stupid mistake.
However, the most important point that you may or may not have understood is... my pipistrel is an airplane, not a car.
So the only use I have for "blacktop" (as in "roads") is for emergency landings! Hahaha.
You are an inspiration to all of us, honestann!
This is an example of a good son. He didn't want to worry his father "he didn't feel comfortable telling his father the truth - namely, that the 2011 458 "no longer pleased him.""
Really though - probabtion and a small fine for attempted insurance fraud. Nice.