REMEMBER that scene in Zoolander where the male models pull up to a gas station and start spraying each other with gasoline, to the sounds of Wham!, and then a dude lights a cigarette? BOOM! This July, in Kirkwood, Missouri, a real-life gas station scene ended similarly. Here, no dunderheaded models were involved, or a roofless Bronco, but rather a pair of Lamborghini Huracán Performante sports cars, one red, one blue. This is an automobile that can go zero-to-60 in under three seconds and reach a top speed of nearly 220 mph. Along with these four-wheeled rockets, which retail for about $275k, was a white minivan. Who would have guessed that the Mom-Mobile would take out the blue rocket? Parker Gelber was driving the red Lamborghini, while his friend was driving the blue one. They stopped for gas. While they were both inside the Mobil station, a dude in the minivan drove away from
the pump. There was just one problem. He had neglected to put the nozzle back where it belongs. What happened next was actually captured in a viral video by a Lamborghini fan who’d been making a little movie of the parked sports cars. After all, it’s not every day you see two whips worth $550k chilling at a Mobil. Unfortunately it was the last couple seconds of the blue Huracán’s existence. The departing minivan wrenched the gas-pump’s hose out of its socket. The flow of gas was supposed to cut off. That didn’t happen immediately. Fuel shot from the pump’s dispersal point and sprayed the hot engine of the sports car. Instantly it was on fire. Everyone ran from the station and watched the Lamborghini burn, helpless. It was a total loss. Happily, no pumps exploded, and no one was hurt. No word on whether “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” had been playing on station speakers leading up to the incident.
