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If you thought the Brilliance BS6 was China's worst crime against motoring, prepare to have your mind positively exploded. This is, or was, a Lamborghini Gallardo - yep, the very same car that, in dog-eared poster format, adorned the walls of teenagers for the best part of a decade.
Its crime? Breaking down. Its punishment? A public battering with sledgehammers. So what, we hear you ask, the hell is going on?
Welcome to Qingdao, in Eastern China, where the owner of this supercar was so enraged after it broke down after a service, that he paid a group of blokes to take the car apart using sledgehammers before a crowd of rightly horrified onlookers. It was all part of a public protest for World Consumer Rights Day, an event likely to resonate with world's biggest companies as loudly as World Donut Day or World Handwashing Day. And no, we didn't make any of these up.
If you need a break from this unremitting blanket of sledgehammery violence, click here for sparkly orangey pics of the stunning Aventador. Do it.
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Lamborgboy commented on this article
at 01:01 pm on 16 March 2011
i hate to see cars destroyed especially cars like the gallardo it's a crime against supercars
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motojn commented on this article
at 01:12 pm on 16 March 2011
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Smash supercars is a crime!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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rustymx5 commented on this article
at 01:27 pm on 16 March 2011
If he'd had only waited for another 20 minutes or so, it probably would have set itself on fire, thereby saving himself the effort of buying some very expensive hammers and excitable blokes in safety hats.
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bengravy commented on this article
at 01:49 pm on 16 March 2011
The Chinese man should be publicly hit repeatedly with sledgehammers for crimes against supercars!!!!!!!!!!!! D;
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05turbocarreraS commented on this article
at 02:26 pm on 16 March 2011
What a rich, spoiled asshat. How about selling the car off and donating the money to charity?
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