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Kaiserslautern, Germany  - A man barbecued his own car by mistake, following a mishap at a grill party in southern Germany, police said Sunday.

The 37-year-old poured a beaker of petrol onto the smouldering charcoal of his balcony grill in order to coax it into life, prompting a tongue of flame to shoot out.

A friend standing next to him panicked and dropped the cannister containing the petrol, causing it to ignite and spill on to the man's car parked below.