An Indiana man knew that he who laughed last laughed best, and now he’ll likely be laughing all the way to jail. Seventy-nine year-old Dewey Fredrick waited 36 years to get his revenge on an Fort Wayne, Indiana car dealership that sold him a chronically troubled Jeep in 1986, the Washington Post reports.
Fredrick set four cars afire on the lot of O’Daniel Used Cars, part of a dealership that sells Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep and Ram marques, to get back on the dealership for selling him a Jeep that needed significant repairs and service.
According to police, Fredrick drove his current ride, a 2002 Chevy S-10 pickup, to the dealership where he used a flare to torch a Jeep Compass SUVs, which then set a nearby 2013 GMC Acadia and a 2020 Jeep Cherokee on fire.
Fredrick then drove to the dealership’s Mazda shop down the road where he used a knife to slice open the roof of a 2008 Pontiac Solstice convertible and dropped another flare into the driver’s seat. In total, he caused about $85,000 in damage.
This isn’t his first attempt at revenge: after buying the Jeep in 1986, he repeatedly tried to get the dealership to take back the vehicle or make significant repairs, but the dealership refuse. He then put Superglue in the door locks of an unspecified number of vehicles.