Mario Balotelli set his own house on fire on Saturday morning while throwing fireworks out of a bathroom window. Nobody was hurt, but the property suffered serious damage.
The Mario Balotelli Fireworks Incident Wasn’t Funny
Balotelli’s antics are harmless enough on the football pitch, when one can project onto him the personality of a man rebelling against the boredom and stodginess of the Premier League. He is, if you will, a footballing antihero - a man who realises everything is a farce and acts accordingly. On the surface, this is just another example of Mario being Mario, and the reaction from the public (and from some members of the media) has been predictably amused.
Obviously, nobody can say what Balotelli was thinking at the time, but it’s probably reasonable to say that this shows a fairly troubling disregard for the safety of himself and his friends as well as a similar disregard for his property. No 21-year-old should be condemned for playing with fireworks, of course, but generally pyromaniac youngsters are careful not to set their own bathrooms on fire, especially while they’re in them.
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