TheQuartering [6/14/2023]
The moment a Twitch streamer’s car was set ablaze by a viewer who travelled 700 miles and torched it outside her home has been shared on social media.
Kylee Carter, known on the streaming platform as justfoxii, first shared images of her car during and after the blaze on Twitter.
Opening up in a YouTube video, Carter shared more details about the incident, which she said occurred whilst she was on holiday.
Carter said: ‘I was asleep, it was around two in the morning and my mom called me.
‘She was crying, and I knew something really bad had happened.
‘She said, “Someone caught your car on fire. I’m really sorry, I have to go, the police are here.”
‘And she was in the house while all of this was happening.’
Accompanying the photos, Carter wrote on Twitter: ‘A twitch viewer came to my house and set my car on fire…’
In the video of the incident, the man places a bucket on top of a block on the car.
After he lights it, the car’s bonnet can be seen blazing furiously.
The footage then switches from black and white to color, with the front wheels also flaming and sirens audible in the background.
The end of the video shows the car as a steaming wreck, before it cuts to the destroyed front of the vehicle after the fire has been extinguished.
Carter viewed the footage on the security cameras that she has set up around her house.
She continued: ‘I saw my car in flames. That’s the first thing I saw.
‘I just couldn’t believe that I was watching my car – that I worked so hard for – just burn.
‘And for somebody to take that from me is very hurtful. I will never be able to understand that.’
Carter feels that the distance travelled by the culprit makes the situation ‘so much worse’.
Reflecting on the efforts to save her car, she said: ‘The firefighters came very quickly and I’m very thankful for that because the fire spread to the fence and burnt the side of my house. Which my mom and animals were inside of.
‘We’re all traumatized in ways that I will never be able to describe.
‘But I’m just glad that everyone is safe. That’s the most important thing to me.’
The dramatic incident has also made Carter reflect on her streaming fame.
Carter said: ‘I just never thought that when I started streaming back in 2015, that something like this would ever happen to me.