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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermite
Doesn't remove the cars, but sends a loud message.
Hate on cars all you want, and the idiocy that accompanies them, but please don't encourage setting things on fire in California, especially as they start to enter fire season. That's a good way to end up with massive, out of control fires that do billions in damage.
Just call a towtruck. They'll have a field day here.
I thought this was going to be a joke about car fires causing cancer in the state of California.
No don't listen to them! The fires must spread for ash is a grand fertilizer so burn it all! Also fuck Moreno Valley, sincerely an Inland Imperial Hick.
But... Thermite's not explosive? They probably won't hear it.
Aim for the fuel tank then.
But even without a sound made by the thermite, the message can be loud and clear.
In a school zone? What are you, the US military?
Why would you thermite the fuel tank? A pile the size of a quarter will burn through an entire engine block and some of the pavement under it.
Through an engine block? It's gonna snap, crackle, and pop.
... what is that for in this scenario?
To send a message.
Can you imagine what you can do with thermite to those cars?