Photo of the Day: Car Enfuego on Broome Street

Damn-- who knew the Mercedes were so flammable? MHAMWill caught a whole set of car-fire insanity yesterday in front of the Mooncake Diner in SoHo. Doesn't look like anyone was doing much to put the car out, does it? [Related: Flickr has a surprisingly large number of car-fire pictures. Slate helpfully explains that to light a car on fire, the best way is to crack the windows open a bit and drop in a lit piece of newspaper with a spritz of lighter fluid.]

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