In the early decades of the last century, I, another overweight Sardinian with my inseparable bowler hat, attempted multiple times, but in vain, to dissuade messer @[sfascia carrozze] from smashing motor vehicles, pleading with him to leave the axe behind...

there he is (already quite bald at the time) as he approaches to smash his first four-wheeled vehicle with the axe...
#chiaroscuro