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struggle4progress

(118,286 posts)
Tue Jan 10, 2023, 12:01 AM Jan 2023

Set selves on fire, trying to burn immigration center

By Mack Lamoureux
January 5, 2023, 11:54am

... On Monday night, a Ring surveillance camera captured two men dressed in black with masks covering their faces walking up to Servicio de Inmigracion in Bakersfield, California. The two men proceed to dump the accelerant over the side of the building and parking lot in front.

As one of the men continued to spread the fuel, the second squatted over a puddle of the accelerant and tried to light it on fire, the video shows. The fire ignited violently and the man sprinted away with his leg on fire. The second man panicked and fell down twice, and like his comrade, sprinted away from the scene of the crime on fire.

The man could be heard screaming as he ran into the night.

The owner of the business said Servicio de Inmigracion told a local Fox News outlet they help their customers work with the immigration process and pay their income taxes. Another worker said that the suspects dropped their phones as they fled the fire and they are now in the hands of authorities ...

https://www.vice.com/en/article/n7zgpq/men-set-on-fire-california-immigration-center-arson

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Set selves on fire, trying to burn immigration center (Original Post) struggle4progress Jan 2023 OP
The sheer level of proactive dumbassery never fails to amaze me. nt Gore1FL Jan 2023 #1
FAFO Kennah Jan 2023 #2
You know what I've noticed? vercetti2021 Jan 2023 #3
They suck at life. nt SunSeeker Jan 2023 #4
Kevin McCarthy voters Turbineguy Jan 2023 #5
This message was self-deleted by its author Chin music Jan 2023 #6
Apparently, they thought bricks would burn. Hermit-The-Prog Jan 2023 #7
Enjoyed It! C0RI0LANUS Jan 2023 #8
I laugh my ass off every time a television show HAB911 Jan 2023 #9
Some stories just do my heart so much good. I'm told laughter is the best medicine. Biophilic Jan 2023 #10
Legend has it Nac Mac Feegle Jan 2023 #11

Response to struggle4progress (Original post)

C0RI0LANUS

(510 posts)
8. Enjoyed It!
Tue Jan 10, 2023, 04:12 AM
Jan 2023

Thank you for sharing the video, I watched it several times. I am looking forward to seeing their mugshots.

HAB911

(8,893 posts)
9. I laugh my ass off every time a television show
Tue Jan 10, 2023, 09:03 AM
Jan 2023

has someone use gasoline to start a fire. They always calmly light the pool of gas and watch it spread (like kerosene, lol) In fact, it is more likely to immediately ignite in their lungs. Television shows do a great disservice to idiots everywhere by not showing the reality of a gasoline explosion

too bad it wasn't in a confined space, they could be in orbit now

Nac Mac Feegle

(971 posts)
11. Legend has it
Tue Jan 10, 2023, 11:43 AM
Jan 2023

That on dark, moonless nights, you can still see the perpetrators running through the fields, on fire.


From a Twitter thread I read a couple days ago.



Does this fall under the category of "Instant Karma?"

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