A man accidently set himself on fire while trying to burn down Tesla chargers to protest Elon Musk, according to police.
Daniel Clarke-Pounder, 24, allegedly burned three Tesla chargers in a South Carolina parking lot and also apparently inadvertently set his clothes with Molotov cocktails on fire on March 7.
He spray-painted in red ‘long live the Ukraine’ and ‘f**k Trump on the pavement next to the charging stations Friday near an outlet mall in North Charleston, according to police.
Clarke-Pounder then ignited an unidentified material stuffed into beer bottles and began to throw the bottles at the stations, police said.
While doing so he caught the clothes on his back on fire, then ran from the parking lot, witnesses told police.
Fire crews cut power to the charging stations shortly after the attack and no one was injured, per officials.
Investigators collected the beer bottles while firefighters cut the power to the chargers and put out the blaze.
Clark-Pounder, a self described mechanic, was arrested on March 13 after police asked the public for help identifying him.
‘Witnesses advised that the suspect had accidentally caught their own back on fire while throwing the devices,’ said an initial police