Criminals attempt to firebomb a neighbours car resulted in them running down the street dressed as a fireball at 3am

A neighbour a few doors up has a reasonably new/expensive Jag and a son who appears to have a business selling imported goods in small plastic bags while driving various Audis and other German whips.

Over a year ago, the son appeared to make an enemy of someone who decided to get revenge.

A silver Astra dropped a man in sports clothing off a few doors down from the Jag, drove off and waited at the end of the street.

The man poured some petrol from an improvised container onto the car, then attempted to smash the nearside rear window of the car. Unfortunately, he couldn't get it to break, so decided to light up the car as is. Unfortunately, his fuel container and pouring technique weren't up to par and he had gotten a lot of fuel on himself.

The attempted window break had roused a couple of neighbours who came to see what was happening(its a small cul de sac) just as the man lit a small part of the car on fire and his top half. He proceeded to run about on fire in very chaotic way, screaming for help, and no one could help him because he wouldn't stop running about like some sort of fire lemming, so he ran off down the street as a fireball.

The Jag was fine, the owner came out just as it was on fire and put it out.

Not sure what happened to Mr Fireball, but there were no recent deaths so I'm assuming he lived to tell the tale and get the piss taken out of him.

I'm not sure if this subreddit is the correct place, but it seems like a local street gossip place.

EDIT: Due to an attempted Colombo in the comments claiming its a made up story, I was driven to attempt to find the story in the local scum rag paper and I DID!

Heatwave Harry attempted to avoid criminal charges by claiming it "was a BBQ gone wrong" , at 3am, in a street he didn't live in!!! Incredible! It also says the car was destroyed, but it's definitely just parked up the street now, so I don't really understand that part.