Are certain SUV's really so flammable inside?

[Archae]

I mean, :wtf:

Man Throws Lit Cigarette Out Window, Sets SUV Ablaze

POSTED: 8:15 am CST February 18, 2005

SAN FRANCISCO -- A 20-year-old man barely escaped serious injury Thursday after a lit cigarette he tried to toss out the window while driving across the Bay Bridge blew back in and ignited the vehicle, according to the California Highway Patrol.

Jonathan Fish, of San Francisco, was driving westbound at about 10:40 a.m. when he tossed the cigarette out the window of his Ford Expedition, said CHP Officer Shawn Chase.

Carried by the wind, the cigarette landed in his back seat and almost immediately burst into flames. The man quickly pulled to the side of the road, and jumped from the flame-filled SUV, which continued rolling into a guard rail, Chase said.

"He thought he had thrown it in park, but he didn't and it just kept going," the officer said. "It was in flames by the time he got out. He had some of his hair singed on the back of his head. It burnt down to the frame. There was nothing left."

http://www.themilwaukeechannel.com/news/4211011/detail.html

[slackmaster]

1. Serves the asshole right

Lots of California wildfires get started by IDIOTS throwing burning cigarettes from cars. It happens every year.

I don't hate all smokers, just messy ones.

[KitchenWitch]

3. For chrissakes why can't they use the ashtray in their cars?

Ever done an adopt a highway litter clean up? It is unbelievable how many ciggy butts are along the sides of roads. If you smoke - DON'T THROW IT OUT THE WINDOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Webster Green]

2. I wondered the same thing when I heard the report on the radio...

It didn't take too long from the time the butt got blown back into the vehicle till the SUV was burned down to the frame.

[Options Remain]

4. I call this Karma

Poetic Justice
Well Deserved
and other less polite things.

[DrWeird]

5. Everything I read today reminds me of The Big Lebowski.

What's the deal with that?