A Louisiana contractor faced death threats after being tasked with removing Confederate monuments from New Orleans — and then had his precious $200,000 Lamborghini burned down.
Even after David Mahler, the owner of H&O Investments in Baton Rouge, backed out of the bid to take down Confederate monuments, arsonists still targeted the prized possession and torched the 2014 luxury supercar to ashes.
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Mahler and his wife, Tessa, received a call from the St. George Fire department at about 1 a.m. on Tuesday, telling the family that the Lamborghini Huracan, worth about $200,000, was ablaze, she said in a Facebook post.
“I don’t know if this has anything to do with a job he was recently CONTRACTED to do and decided not to take or if there is another reason but it makes me sad that someone would go this far,” Tessa wrote. “The hate in this world is too thick so I’ll be the bigger person and only spread love back.”
All that was left of the expensive car in his business’ parking lot was a charred crisp, with burned wheels and scorched seats.
“This was a very exotic car, made of largely composite materials and in this case the paint on the fender didn’t burn, the fender burned,” St. George Fire Department’s Eldon Ledoux told WAFB. “The car was actually consumed by the fire, it added fuel to the fire.”
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Just days before the Lamborghini turned into hot wheels, Mahler backed out of his contract with New Orleans to remove four Confederate monuments, after receiving multiple death threats and harassing phone calls.
The New Orleans City Council voted to take down the Confederate statues after Dylann Roof’s racist rampage in South Carolina last June.
Mahler turned down the contracting gig in fear for his family’s safety, according to local reports.
Mahler’s attorney said the Baton Rouge Fire Department was investigating the blaze, and called the incident “extremely suspicious,” WDSU reported.
The car , originally dubbed “Psycho Hurricane,” was recently rewrapped in October 2015, and renamed the “White Widow.”
Now, it is just a pile of ashes.
