From The "What Were You Thinking!" Files

We've seen at least two stories in the last few months about people trying to drive their cars off tow trucks, to keep them from being towed. Here's an even worse strategy - A 40-year-old guy in Manchester, New Hampshire named Shad Badeau saw his car being hooked up to a tow truck over the weekend. It wasn't being repossessed or anything, he just parked it illegally. And he tried to stop it from happening - by setting his own car on FIRE. We don't know if the whole car went up, or he just started a small fire on the hood. But the tow truck driver immediately put the car down and unhitched it. So in the short term, it worked. But someone also called 911. By the time firefighters got there, Shad had already put out the fire himself. But the cops showed up too, and arrested him for arson. No word on what happened to his car, but we're assuming it's evidence now. So it probably got towed and impounded anyway. Truly a case of What Were You Thinking!