---
title: "Watch Taiwanese Authorities Mercilessly Tear Apart a Lamborghini Murcielago"
description: "No supercar deserves this."
date: "2016-12-15"
modified: "2016-12-15"
authors:
  - name: "Aaron Brown"
    job_title: "Staff Editor"
    link: "https://www.thedrive.com/authors/aaron-brown"
url: "https://www.thedrive.com/news/6530/watch-taiwanese-authorities-mercilessly-tear-apart-a-lamborghini-murcielago"
categories:
  - "Lamborghini News"
  - "News"
  - "News by Brand"
  - "Watch This"
tags:
  - "Lamborghini"
  - "Murcielago"
  - "Supercar"
  - "Supercars"
---

# Watch Taiwanese Authorities Mercilessly Tear Apart a Lamborghini Murcielago

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No matter how illegal a car may be, how awful its driver is, or even how horrendously modified it is, no supercar deserves to be torn apart at the metal hands of a massive mechanical claw. Sadly, though, that's exactly what happened to [this poor Lamborghini Murcielago in Taiwan](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-dTihpDC4uw>)—simply for having the wrong license plate.

The video, posted to the [J T. Photography](<https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9KQYJ8Psot2PE4_AzA_Gsw>) YouTube channel Wednesday, shows just over 34 minutes of the Italian exotic getting torn to shreds as a crowd of onlookers gawk. A description of the same clip, posted on another YouTube page, explained that the Lamborghini was being torn apart by the Taiwanese government because the owner allegedly had a license plate from another car. Overkill, maybe?

Taiwanese news outlet *Focus* *Taiwan* reports that the owner of the car operated the [Lambo on public roads](<https://focustaiwan.tw/news/asoc/201612140021.aspx>) without proper registration in 2013, until he was pulled over at a police checkpoint. It was then that police discovered the Murcielago was actually using plates from a Ford sedan, at which point the authorities impounded the car. The car then spent the next three years sitting in a police impound lot, awaiting its fate—until it was ultimately smashed to bits.

Before the Lambo-smashing, the owner of the car sent a friend to try and talk the police out of it, but after talking for 30 minutes, the cops went ahead with the vehicular murder, *Focus* *Taiwan* reports. We don't know what exactly the friend told the 5-0, but we're guessing it involved a hell of a lot of desperate pleading...and maybe an attempted bribe or two.

Rest in piece, Murcielago. You never had a chance.

https://youtube.com/embed/HQEfdOOJUiU

## Author
Aaron was previously a contributing writer with Jalopnik and has also written for Business Insider covering cars. When he's not in the office writing the news, you'll probably find him thrashing a beater car around a RallyCross.

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