Mytishchi, a sleeping Moscow suburb, would be the last place to imagine a love affair, tragedy, and one very pricey discarded luxury vehicle. There was a sweeping romance in the making, turned into a spectacle after a Porsche Macan was discarded in a dumpster, drawing a crowd of spectators and transforming heartbreak into tabloids.
In a last-ditch attempt to salvage his crumbling marriage, a man believed he would test his luck with something big a Porsche Macan. The symbol of love, shelled out for an inflated 3 million rubles (approximately Rs 27 lakh), was supposed to be the pinnacle of his devotion and the eleventh-hour desire of reunions. Things took a different turn.
The classy luxury car had brighter prospects before it had previously been in an accident, but the husband, intent on making an impression, promised his wife that it would soon be like new again. His intention was to present the refurbished car on March 8, International Women’s Day, but he was too impatient to wait. Valentine’s Day presented itself as the perfect occasion for healing broken love.
Sadly, the gesture did not work. Rather than rekindling romance, the over-the-top surprise generated more tension. The wife, upon opening the dented car covered in a red ribbon, did not view it as a romantic gesture but as an insult. She flatly rejected the gift, leaving the husband crestfallen and enraged.
In rage, he went to extreme measures, one that has left the whole town perplexed. Rather than sell or trade the car back, he dumped it in a huge dumpster, a defiant and sad act that has become a strange local landmark. How he fit a whole Porsche into a dumpster is unclear, but the spectacle of the high-end SUV crammed into a trash can has attracted locals and tourists who are lining up to take photos with the surprise lead lady of this domestic soap.
For almost two weeks, the Porsche sat to decay in its hasty tomb, a city fixation. To some, it was a shrine to ill-fated passion; to others, a sign of excess gone awry. The friends of the guy, as they were talked to by local media, clarified that he had planned the shocking buy to serve as a bridging reconciliatory measure, only to drive the divide wider.
The destiny of the left-behind Porsche is yet to be decided. Will it be claimed by the owner, or will it be a quirky landmark until the authorities intervene? One thing for sure—this Valentine’s Day surprise was not expected, and Mytishchi has blessed itself with a love story no one wasn’t quite expecting.
