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Man burns down parents' house, kills pets while trying to exterminate ants
FoxNews.com ^ | Mar 21, 2017 | Associated Press writer

Posted on 03/20/2017 9:00:36 PM PDT by dayglored

Maine's state fire marshal says a man burned down his parents' house and killed three pets while trying to exterminate ants in his basement with matches.

Investigators say 21-year-old Devon Doucette was trying to incinerate the ants with wooden matches when one of them ignited combustible materials. The fire quickly spread to the rest of the house.

...the house is owned by his parents, who were not home at the time... the fire killed two cats and one dog. They say charges are not likely.

(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...


TOPICS: Cheese, Moose, Sister; Pets/Animals; Society
KEYWORDS: ants; fire; idiot; matches
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To: dayglored

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living in parents basement

maybe a little wacky weed involved here?


21 posted on 03/20/2017 9:24:44 PM PDT by digger48
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To: fidelis

Lol. Good double play on words.


22 posted on 03/20/2017 9:24:53 PM PDT by laplata ( Liberals/Progressives have diseased minds.)
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To: dayglored

23 posted on 03/20/2017 9:26:25 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: EinNYC

I worked with a guy who did basically the same thing back in the 2000-period with a house in Virginia. He was able to stop the fire in the first two minutes and prevent it from spreading. I think there are a lot of these episodes that come up and just never get reported.


24 posted on 03/20/2017 9:35:20 PM PDT by pepsionice
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To: dayglored

Why did he want to burn his parents house down? And who taught the pets how to kill ants? Confusing title, perhaps I shall read the article.


25 posted on 03/20/2017 9:48:13 PM PDT by Professional
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To: piasa

Unfortunately, my dog likes that stuff too... boiling/scalding water works really well, as does steam... more work though.


26 posted on 03/20/2017 10:28:22 PM PDT by leakinInTheBlueSea
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To: Maudeen

Diatomaceous earth is just not as interesting after 10 bong hits...

Side note, a coworker collected a sample of this stuff on a site we were drilling south of the Bay Area for geotechnical investigation. It looks and feels like a super fine sand or coarse silt. The big surprise comes when you try to pound a proctor curve on it. The curve just keeps rising on the moisture side and doesn’t break over until it’s crazy high, like 50+% water. It’s because the diatoms are little spikey glass spheres that fill up internally too.


27 posted on 03/20/2017 10:31:18 PM PDT by Axenolith (Government blows, and that which governs least, blows least...)
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To: dayglored

Decades ago I read of a woman exhausted by her battle with roaches in her aging New York brownstone appartment. She set off something like six anti-roach aerosol “roach bombs” meant to flood the zone with pesticide and she left the apartment. Sadly, she failed to turn off the pilot light and the apartment exploded and the entire block went up in flames with secondary gas explosions etc. As firemen were climbing over and through the rubble, they could see roaches running every which way....


28 posted on 03/20/2017 10:45:17 PM PDT by ransomnote
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To: dayglored

I Love the Smell of Napalm in the Morning


29 posted on 03/20/2017 10:59:51 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: dayglored

Watch out you might get what you’re after
Boom babies strange but not a stranger
I’m an ordinary guy
Burning down the house


30 posted on 03/20/2017 11:03:09 PM PDT by Mozilla (Truth Is Stranger than Fiction.)
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To: dayglored
Good thing he never heard the phrase 'Nuke it from orbit' ;-)

Ed

31 posted on 03/20/2017 11:06:09 PM PDT by husky ed (FOX NEWS ALERT "Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead" THIS HAS BEEN A FOX NEWS ALERT)
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To: dayglored

32 posted on 03/20/2017 11:09:32 PM PDT by Stand Watch Listen (Progressive socialists are PISD: "Post-Inauguration Stress Disorder")
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To: dayglored

There’s that “how to kill a spider” gif.

http://imgur.com/gallery/54r6jLJ


33 posted on 03/20/2017 11:20:25 PM PDT by thecodont
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To: dayglored

the “barn-burners” are back, this time targeting ants.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnburners_and_Hunkers


34 posted on 03/21/2017 12:05:46 AM PDT by Reverend Wright (the snowflakes are having a meltdown !)
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To: MrEdd

Yes it must be this one LOL

Baby Elephant Walk:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1z4JfxFb6c


35 posted on 03/21/2017 12:16:29 AM PDT by Patriot Babe
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To: Axenolith

I use Food Grade DE in my smoothies sometimes. :)


36 posted on 03/21/2017 12:22:48 AM PDT by Maudeen (No one on this earth is too far gone for Jesus.)
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To: dayglored

An active ant problem? In Maine, in March? Not to likely. Drugs.


37 posted on 03/21/2017 2:38:46 AM PDT by PilotDave (No, really, you just can't make this stuff up!!)
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To: piasa

When I lived in California, I had persistent ant problems. I tried everything and the little bastards kept coming back. Sprays, borax, etc. One day, after I had doused my baseboards with the most “extreme” ant killer they had at my local hardware store, which left them crawling through oily residue since they refused to die, I took out a spray bottle of 409 to clean it all up. It killed every one of them, cleaned up the oil, dead ants and borax residue, and they didn’t come back. 409 is now my first choice for bug killer, but I question whether or not it’s a good idea for kitchen surfaces, because it is obviously toxic!


38 posted on 03/21/2017 2:59:59 AM PDT by ponygirl ("Our violence is speech. Your speech is violence." ~The Left)
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To: dayglored

Hey, it was their house. Their son can burn it if he wants. The insurance company shouldn’t pay a dime of the intentional fire.


39 posted on 03/21/2017 3:16:33 AM PDT by healy61
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To: healy61

Stupidity isn’t arson.


40 posted on 03/21/2017 3:19:58 AM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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