MORE Bizarre Blazes: Arson's Strangest Stories

Episode 132

Cheetos belong in a snack bowl. Nuclear submarines belong in the fleet. And your wedding venue should still be standing when you leave.

This week, we return with More Bizarre Blazes: Arson’s Strangest Stories—four stories featuring spectacularly bad decisions and one pig with no apparent criminal intent.

In Massachusetts, a man tries to burn his ex-girlfriend’s home using Cheetos. At a Maine shipyard, Casey James Fury’s plan to leave work early leads to a devastating fire aboard the USS Miami and a $400 million restitution order. In England, Max Kay’s castle wedding ends with twenty double vodkas, a dispute over the bar tab, and a multimillion-pound blaze. And in Yorkshire, a pig eats a pedometer—and what comes out requires the fire department.

Expect snack-food evidence, an exceptionally expensive exit strategy, and a reminder that “free-range” does not mean qualified to handle electronics.

Grab your snacks. Leave the propane tank alone.

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Listener discretion is advised.

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SOURCES:

• “Jury Convicts Man Who Tried to Use Cheetos as an Accelerant.” CBS News, November 17, 2016.
  https://www.cbsnews.com/baltimore/news/jury-convicts-man-who-tried-to-use-cheetos-as-an-accelerant/

• “Man Convicted of Using Cheetos to Try and Burn Down Ex’s Home.” WCVB, November 16, 2016.
  https://www.wcvb.com/article/man-convicted-of-using-cheetos-to-try-and-burn-down-exs-home/8299132

• Lang, Cady. “Man Tried to Burn Down His Ex-Girlfriend’s House Using Cheetos.” TIME, November 17, 2016.
  https://time.com/4575329/man-uses-cheetos-house-fire/

• Associated Press. “Shipyard Worker Who Set Fire to Nuclear Submarine Sentenced to 17 Years in Jail.” The Guardian, March 15, 2013.
  https://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/mar/15/uss-miami-military-submarine-fire-sentence

• Associated Press. “Worker Who Set Fire to Submarine Sentenced to 17 Years.” Deseret News, March 16, 2013.
  https://www.deseret.com/2013/3/16/20449465/worker-who-set-fire-to-submarine-sentenced-to-17-years/

• “NH Man Charged With Setting $400 Million Submarine Fire to Stay in Jail.” CBS Boston, August 1, 2012.
  https://www.cbsnews.com/boston/news/nh-man-charged-with-setting-400-million-submarine-fire-to-stay-in-jail/

• “Groom Jailed After Setting Fire to Wedding Venue.” ITV News, March 21, 2012.
  https://www.itv.com/news/granada/2012-03-21/groom-jailed-after-setting-fire-to-wedding-venue

• Driver, Alistair. “Pedometer Eaten by Pig Sparks Fire—and Mass Media Coverage!” Pig World, March 9, 2020.
  https://www.pig-world.co.uk/news/pig-pedometer-sparks-fire-and-mass-media-coverage.html