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Why pay an expensive divorce attorney when you can torch a €4,000 car to make up with the wife? One dude living in Ireland thought he had the right idea when he pulled a stunt like this, but the Gardai felt differently.
Romanian-born Strugurel Lingurar, whom Dublin Live refers to as a “vlogger,” had been cheating on his wife and using his Silver Mercedes E220 as rendezvous point with the mistress. When the wife found out, she read him the riot act and threatened to live him, which is when he got the idea to demonstrate his love for her by torching the car he’d used to cheat on her.
He drove to Laytown Beach in Meath and, while streaming the whole thing on social media, set the car ablaze. Concerned eyewitnesses called the Gardai and the dude got arrested and charged with Section 2 Criminal Damage offense, to which he pleaded guilty, the same publication reports.
On his sentence hearing, Lingurar was fined €400, but also received a stern talking-to not only for setting his car on fire but leaving it there to be towed by a third party. The judge even told him his stupidity was such that he, the judge, should award the wife some form of compensation for the embarrassment he caused her.
“[This] is so bizarre and so far fetched it's not believable,” Judge Alan Mitchell told Lingurar, describing the incident as “incredibly foolish.” “The idea of someone going down to a public place and burning a car on the basis of proving love all seems a bit strange.”
You can say that again.
“The fuel tank could have exploded and onlookers could have ended up in a much more serious situation,” the judge mentioned, in response to Lingurar’s attorney’s claim that he never meant to hurt anyone.
The silver lining, if that’s what you wish to call it, on this huge cloud of stupid is that the wife accepted Lingurar’s profession of love and took him back. But they’re walking to work, we assume.
He drove to Laytown Beach in Meath and, while streaming the whole thing on social media, set the car ablaze. Concerned eyewitnesses called the Gardai and the dude got arrested and charged with Section 2 Criminal Damage offense, to which he pleaded guilty, the same publication reports.
On his sentence hearing, Lingurar was fined €400, but also received a stern talking-to not only for setting his car on fire but leaving it there to be towed by a third party. The judge even told him his stupidity was such that he, the judge, should award the wife some form of compensation for the embarrassment he caused her.
“[This] is so bizarre and so far fetched it's not believable,” Judge Alan Mitchell told Lingurar, describing the incident as “incredibly foolish.” “The idea of someone going down to a public place and burning a car on the basis of proving love all seems a bit strange.”
You can say that again.
“The fuel tank could have exploded and onlookers could have ended up in a much more serious situation,” the judge mentioned, in response to Lingurar’s attorney’s claim that he never meant to hurt anyone.
The silver lining, if that’s what you wish to call it, on this huge cloud of stupid is that the wife accepted Lingurar’s profession of love and took him back. But they’re walking to work, we assume.
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