Hollyweird moving toward the French carbeque contests of a few years ago?
France limits petrol sales for New Year’s Eve
http://www.news.com.au/world/france-limits-petrol-sales-for-new-years/story-e6frfkyi-1226232996732
FRANCE is to limit sales of petrol and other combustibles on New Year’s Eve in a bid to curb what has become an annual tradition of revellers torching hundreds of cars, police said.
Youths in the often depressed suburbs of French cities have been torching hundreds of vehicles on New Year’s Eve since the early 1990s in what police say has become a competition to see which area can cause the most damage.
Autos-da-fé.
Thank God I left Hwd 30+ years ago.
A few years ago? They’ve been ongoing for about two decades. See here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2827085/posts?page=1