An Italian musician said he feels violated after a thief set his car alight in Los Angeles before coming back to steal and iPod out of the vehicle.
Vincenzzo Marranca was stunned when he discovered his car had been torched at around 3:30 a.m. Monday on 4700 block of West Jefferson Boulevard in the West Adams district.
Surveillance footage showed the culprit sifting through a bin, then stuffing what looks like blankets underneath the 2001 Volkwagen Beetle and setting it on fire.
"I… feel violated a little bit. I don't know if I want to come here at night anymore," Marranca, who plays bass for rock band "We Are Kings & Queens," said. "Sometimes we play until 3 or 4 in the morning. What if I was coming out of a recording session and I caught the guy and he had a gun for example?"
After the Los Angeles Fire Department put out the fire, the man came back almost an hour later to pick through the wreckage, and ended up taking an iPod.
His bandmate Jonathan Mahan said the incident could have been far more serious.
"He could have just smashed a window. He put all of us in danger," Mahan said, "There's houses right back here. There is a building right here, it could've burned down."
