An unnamed Swiss guy burnt his Ferrari 458 Italia - worth $400,000 -- to get his father to buy him a new one he's been eyeing - a Ferrari 488 Spider.
The 20-year-old already owns 14 other cars (which includes a Lamborghini), but it seems as though he wasn't satisfied with any of them and was too afraid to ask his dad for a new one - this then prompted the idea to torch his existing Ferrari instead.
It's pretty clear that he wasn't the only one behind the plot. In fact, a Ferrari salesman was the one who gave the kid the idea to torch the car and claim the insurance money so he could buy the newer Ferrari 488 Spider.
Not only that, but the guy didn't even want to do the dirty work himself, so he hired someone else to do it for him. He hired three other guys and paid them $15,000 each to steal the car and then drive it past the German border into Switzerland before actually torching the beloved Ferrari.
Meanwhile, as the plan was running its course, the guy was pampering himself in a massage parlor while waiting for his friends to assure that the plan had been successful.
Karma hit him back, when the whole incident was caught on surveillance video. Police were able to trace the car back to the Swiss guy. In court, the 20-year-old brat said that he was running out of money - although he receives a $10,000 monthly allowance and owns a bunch of supercars.
Unilad claims that the guy "was not brave enough to tell his father he did not like the Ferrari."
Furthermore, the guy will not be getting any Ferraris anytime soon. The guy was sentenced to 22 months of probation, in addition to a €30,000 ($33,000) fine.
