9 Year Old Boy Lights Home Depot On Fire

[matcom]

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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. -- A 9-year-old boy set fire to the garden section of a Home Depot, closing the store, forcing the evacuation of nearly 100 shoppers and causing almost $2,000 in damage, according to the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office.

Egged on by a friend, the boy apparently used stolen cigarette lighters to light the blaze, authorities said.

The boy was charged with arson to an occupied business, and his friend is considered a witness, said sheriff's Detective William Atkinson. The boys' names were not released.

The store was closed for two hours Tuesday, and hundreds of customers were turned away as smoke poured into the main store. Employees stopped the 6-foot flames with fire extinguishers.

http://www.wftv.com/newsofthestrange/3501234/detail.html

[Redhead488]

1. Now, if he starts torturing small animals,

we better keep a clsoe eye on him...

[jukes]

8. Redhead488

and if he's a bedwetter, the 3rd indicator of a budding sociopath.

[TheFarseer]

2. He probably just got so damn bored

he couldn't take it anymore. Does anyone else find that place extremely boring?

[Redhead488]

3. Surely you jest

With all those power tools and home improvement products...I could spend MONTHS in there and not get bored.

[BlueJazz]

4. Maybe the Lad heard that there was a "Fire Sale" and.....

....thought "Hey...I can help with that!"

[underpants]

6. See this is why you only allowed four not FIVE packs of matches on a plane

From Farenheit 9/11

[underpants]

5. Note to spokesman Miller-turrists could be reading this

"This could've been a real disaster," said sheriff's office spokesman Paul Miller. "There's so much combustible material in a Home Depot.

:eyes:

[jukes]

7. matcom

good liberal youth:

BURN the repub coporations, up the revolution!