Affluenza Indian style- 22-year-old man pushes brand new BMW into river because parents

[malaise]

didn't buy him a Jaguar
https://www.kptv.com/year-old-man-pushes-brand-new-bmw-into-river-because/article_f358174b-66d5-5cfb-bdcf-11b78175f8d5.html
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- A father in northern India surprised his 22-year-old son with a brand new BMW for his birthday, but apparently it wasn't the luxury vehicle his son had hoped for.

The 22-year-old man named Akash became so upset upon receiving the gift that he pushed the BMW into a river, the Times of India reported.

According to local authorities, he wanted a Jaguar instead.

"Akash was demanding for a Jaguar car from his father, but when his father failed to buy one, he threw away his BMW in a fit of anger," Mukesh Kumar, a station house officer for Chhachhrauli police, told the newspaper. "His family had sold the Innova they had received from his in-laws to buy him the BMW."

A video from the scene shows the car sinking beneath the water as divers and witnesses try to retrieve it. They eventually pulled it out with a crane.

[HipChick]

1. Being pulled up out of a river....

Link to tweet

[malaise]

3. I'd kick him out of the family

I remember when our parents gave four of us an old Beetle - we adored it.

[cwydro]

5. All that poverty in India...

How much better could that money have been spent?

[virgogal]

2. He needs a good kick in the butt. Astonishing.

[dalton99a]

4. NEXT: Indian man pushes Jaguar into river because parents didn't buy him a Rolls-Royce

[malaise]

6. or a Bentley

The worst part of the story is the father covering up for his ungrateful brat

[WhiskeyGrinder]

7. I knew a kid in high school who threw a tantrum because their parents bought them a BMW and they

wanted a different car. They ate some cake at my high school.

[Dennis Donovan]

8. Veruca Salt's brother?

[Beakybird]

9. He wanted a pet jaguar?

[malaise]

11. One of these

https://www.google.com/search?q=jaguar+latest+vehicle&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=vdU3POEzCoZgXM%253A%252CroVpV9E6RfBSGM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kTdwZ9v8tasNH2zwaIbK4yV5wvZpQ&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj6oOumrIPkAhXRwVkKHb-1CpgQ9QEwAHoECAcQAw#imgrc=vdU3POEzCoZgXM:

[33taw]

10. Time to let this dude walk.

[greatauntoftriplets]

12. Is his last name Trump?

[Poiuyt]

13. I want a Jaguar too

If any of you buy me a new BMW, I'll do the same as this kid.

Come on, I dare you to test me.

[malaise]

14. ROFL

[chowder66]

15. Akash's father reportedly defended his son....

However, Akash’s father reportedly defended his son, denying that he ever “demanded a Jaguar” for his birthday and claiming the incident was an accident.

“We have two cars, a BMW and a Swift. My son never demanded a Jaguar car,” Sanjeev Kumar told the Times.

Kumar maintained that Akash and the BMW ended up in the canal after his son tried to swerve and avoid an antelope that was blocking the road, the Times reported.

After several hours — and “with the help of divers, villagers and an earth-moving machine” — the submerged car was finally taken out of the water, the Times reported.

https://people.com/human-interest/22-year-old-pushes-bmw-into-canal-report/

[smirkymonkey]

16. Well, after all, his parents raised him.

The kid is an ungrateful brat, but his parents share some of the blame for the fact that he turned out this way.