Stupidity Approaching Darwin Point
Jun. 16th, 2002 10:32 pmFrom CNN: Feds arrest forestry worker for starting fire
Prosecutors said Terry Barton, a 38-year-old Colorado woman, burned in anger a letter from her estranged husband, in violation of a ban on fires in the tinder-dry Pike National Forest. She apparently thought the fire had been extinguished and left it only to find later that it was spreading, they said.I lack the words to do this justice.
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At the time the fire began, Barton was under orders to patrol for fires in the Hayman area of the national forest, enforcing a fire ban that had been set in May.