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June 16, 2002
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Can someone please explain to me how an individual working as a firefighter -- a forest fire fighter -- for eighteen years can make the mistake of burning a letter from her ex in the $#@! forest during one of the worst droughts in years?
Hello! Stupid person! You're going to jail now!
Too bad Colorado had to go up in flames, first.
In the upcoming movie Minority Report, the justice system apprehends and convicts people of "future murder" before they commit the crime, thereby serving justice and sparing the victims. An interesting idea (from the mind of sci-fi author Philip K. Dick). Now, wouldn't it be cool if we could to the same thing with just plain stupid people? Like this firefighter and accidental arsonist stupid person? Imagine how much less traffic there would be congesting our nation's highways....
Posted by on June 16, 2002 10:59 PM in the following Department(s): Tidbits
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ABC News says that prosecutors have charged the woman with setting the fire *deliberately*, so it may turn out not to have been caused by stupidity after all. (Well, I guess it's still stupidity, but in a different way.)
Posted by: Jeff Metzner on June 17, 2002 3:41 PMMost interesting. Here's the link to the newswire which said she started it by burning a letter from her ex: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=578&e=1&cid=578&u=/nm/20020618/ts_nm/environment_fires_dc_37
Either way, this doesn't bode well for an eighteen year veteran of the forest fire fighting squad....
Posted by: Allan on June 18, 2002 1:12 PMI guess we'll have to wait for her day in court to find out why prosecutors think the "burning a letter" story is a lie and what her motive for arson might be.
Posted by: Jeff Metzner on June 18, 2002 1:58 PMShe now says she had been lost in the wilderness for two nights and was desperate to get the attention of a passing TV helicopter. "You can't blame me for saving my life," she said.
The full story is at:
http://www.12news.com/headline/Chediski071102.html
Posted by: Jeff Metzner on July 13, 2002 9:39 AM|
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