Nitwit pleads guilty after burning radio station over playlist

[NoPasaran]

A former volunteer at 91.7 FM KOOP who was charged with setting the radio station ablaze last year when it did not play his suggested songs pleaded guilty Friday to arson and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.

Paul Webster Feinstein also pleaded guilty to a criminal mischief charge as part of an agreement with prosecutors, said his attorney, Wayne Meissner.

Feinstein told investigators that he was unhappy that music he had picked for an overnight Internet program had been changed.

My hometown dead tree news medium

[johnnie]

1. .

:spray:


WOW! Issues huh?

[Moondog]

2. Apparently they offered him something for his guilty plea -

From the article -

"As part of a plea agreement, Feinstein agreed to 120 days “shock sentence” at the state prison complex in Huntsville, $134,000 restitution to KOOP Radio, 10 years probation after release from prison, and community service and counseling as a condition of the shock sentence, according to a statement from the Austin Fire Department."

So he's out in four months. Still. As you say, a nitwit.

[GOPisEvil]

3. What a jackass.

It's a good job he didn't kill someone.

[NoPasaran]

5. Hey! How's things?

[GOPisEvil]

6. Things are good!

I like that it's June and not 100 degrees! :thumbsup:

Life is pretty good overall.

[NoPasaran]

9. It's not 100 degrees

It only feels that way!

[GOPisEvil]

10. It was a nice 75 or so here.

We did have a couple of days where it was 90, but there was no humidity.

[no name no slogan]

4. Wow, Rush fans are nothing if not tenacious.

[struggle4progress]

7. ... Feinstein was a jazz & blues fan and his Internet program was called "Mellow Down Easy" ...

30 January 2008
Disenchanted, Mellow Intern Sets Radio Station On Fire
http://www.gothamcityinsider.com/2008/01/disenchanted-mellow-intern-sets-radio.html

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

8. Someone soured his mellow big time.

Bummer.

[edbermac]

11. Another Oasis fan runs amok.

Their music sucks, no one likes it, get over it.