There are times in life when you have to pick out between paying a boatload of money or keep an eye on a very big explosion . Well , not really , but Finnish man Tuomas Katainen surely did . Katainen is a 2013 Tesla Model S owner who was told he would have to pay more than $ 22,600 to put back the battery on his railroad car . For him , it apparently was n’t deserving it , so he decided toteam up with a YouTuberto squander up his Model S with 66 pounds ( 30 kilograms ) of dynamite alternatively .
According to Katainen , his Model S ran “ first-class ” for the first 932 air mile ( 1,500 kilometers ) after he bought it , but then the wrongdoing code started to look . He sent his car to a Tesla dealer ’s repair workshop , where it remained for about a calendar month , and was differentiate they could n’t do anything for his car . His only selection would be to replace the entire battery , which would be more than $ 22,600 , and he would have to ask Tesla permit to carry out the stamping ground .
To put this in perspective , $ 22,600 would go a prospicient way to buying another used 2013 Model S in Finland , which appear to trade formore than $ 42,900 . But Katainen decides that ’s not for him , proving that there is indeed a sparse line between system of logic , rage , and insanity .
A 2013 Tesla Model S adorned with 66 pounds of dynamite.Screenshot:Jody Serrano / Gizmodo / Pommijätkät
“ So I tell them I ’m coming to pick up the Tesla , ” he say in the television . “ Now I ’m going to explode the whole railroad car forth . ”
To carry out his master design , Katainen enlisted the service of YouTuberPommijätkät , which roughly understand to “ Bomb Dudes , ” according to Google Translate . ( Whether that ’s an exact translation or not , it seems appropriate considering Pommijätkät likes to make things explode ) .
While blowing up a car with dynamite may sound fun , it ’s not an light labor . Katainen and Pommijätkät set up the operation in a quarry at Jaala , a small rural Ithiel Town in Southern Finland . The mathematical group had to consider factors like the explosive ’s huge pressure wave and the direction the fire would go in edict to see rubber .
In the fascinating telecasting , which features a blank of Tesla CEO Elon Musk that ’s cast from a helicopter and ends with the very braggart explosion of Katainen ’s Model S , Pommijätkät asks Katainen what is dear : a work Tesla or explode the car with 66 pound of dynamite ?
“ Sort of both , ” he enounce . “ Maybe more explosion . ”
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