Man attacks own car with pickax for not starting

LISSONE, Italy, Nov. 6 (UPI) -- An Italian man who bought a new Fiat to help him get to work on time took an ax to the vehicle when it failed to start.

Accountant Spartaco Capon, 34, purchased the Fiat 500 because public transportation was making him consistently late to work, but he turned against the vehicle when it failed to start at his Lissone home, making him late again.

Police said Capon attacked the car with a pickax, filling the body of the vehicle with more than a hundred holes.

"Normally in incidents like this it's not people smashing up their own car, but he was able to prove it was his," police spokesman Anastasio Gallo said. "We think he must have been under a lot of stress at work lately and he was taken to hospital where doctors helped to calm down and are keeping him in for tests."

The car was declared totaled and Capon is receiving psychiatric care at the local hospital, where doctors said he would benefit from a few days of relaxation.