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robotech_master ([personal profile] robotech_master) wrote2002-06-16 10:32 pm

Stupidity Approaching Darwin Point

From 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.

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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.
I lack the words to do this justice.