Why would someone start this engine with no water in no radiator and then leave it running in order to watch it "blow up"?

This is someone not to be trusted with machinery of any kind.

i have, in my time, driven motor vehicles hard, but i have never tried to destroy an engine. My father, long gone, would rise up and set me on the Right Road, steering from behind! Well he might.

May God have mercy.

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