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February 18th, 2008 · Posted by Skuds in Life · No Comments · Life

A couple of Argus headlines

2:52pm, Saturday 16th Feb
Fire chiefs warn about washed up wood bonfires

8:34am, Sunday 17th Feb
Washed up timber set alight

The free-for-all comment section on the second story raises most of the points that occurred to me, like:

  • Is all that wood still there?
  • Was it an amazing piece of foresight by the fire chiefs, or did they somehow give someone the idea to set fire to the wood?
  • Was it “drunken revellers” who caused the fire or “arsonists”?

The way I understand it, arson is the deliberate destruction of something by fire.  The warning was that somebody making a bonfire could lead to a larger fire.  If that happened, it would not be arson would it?

Anyway, the prompt arrival of a fire so soon after the paper prints a story saying that it might happen is a bit of a coincidence isn’t it?

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