St. Valentine’s Day should be regarded as the official national holiday of mood swings. For every enamored couple gazing lovingly into each other’s eyes and holding hands over an elegant candlelit dinner, there’s a jilted lover learning the hard way there’s no respite from heartbreak to be found at the bottom of a bottle or an emptied carton of gelato.
Fortunately, a UK-based firm called Scrap Car Comparison has found a novel form of “car-tharsis” to heal the emotional wounds of a failed relationship on February 14 in a healthy, even environmentally correct manner. In a nutshell, they’ll smash a scrapped car to smithereens with the name of one’s ex (or exes) name prominently spray painted across it.
The company works regularly with hundreds of salvage yards across England and decided in the darker spirit of the holiday, to find some good in obliterating discarded vehicles like so many failed personal liaisons.
Though we’d suggest the emotional reinvigoration would be more profound if the aggrieved party were to witness the process in person (and perhaps get in the first whacks), Scrap Car Comparison will provide participants with ample photographic evidence of the vehicular carnage.
Those interested in purging the past via the wrecking ball can sign up on the Scrap Car Comparison website, noting the former beau’s name and what they’ve done to be officially “scrapped” on St. Valentine’s Day. All entries must be received by Wednesday, February 14. The program is open to anyone worldwide, but are a limited number of vehicles to be scrapped, with revenge seekers chosen at random.