Posted on 01/24/2006 4:39:47 PM PST by Lacroix
Police say woman dies in fire sparked from flicking matches
MILWAUKEE - A woman who died in weekend fire at her home sparked the blaze while flicking lighted matches at her sleeping boyfriend in an effort to awaken him, police said. Capt. Eric Moore said Monday that Beverly Gibbs, 49, had been attempting to talk to her boyfriend early Sunday.
"She had become upset because she wanted to talk to him and he refused get out of bed, so what she started doing was lighting matches, flicking them at him as he lay in bed," Moore said.
The mattress was ignited by the matches and the man attempted to drag it out a door, Moore said. But the captain said other items were inadvertently set afire as the man tried to do that.
"He was able to pull the mattress to an exit door, and once he was outside, she never came out of the burning residence," Moore said.
A preliminary examination by the Milwaukee County medical examiner's office indicated Gibbs died of smoke inhalation.
Submoron alert
Sounds like the DemonRats may have lost another vote unless she was a felon.
Waaaaay too early in the year yet. Murphy's law predicts that as weird as a story can possibly be, there is one even weirder waiting round the next corner.
Yeah, like Uncle Teddy doing and ad for Oldsmobile.
Was alcohol involved? Drugs too, perchance?
Why am I not surprised that this happened in Wisconsin?
My favorite winner was a double Darwin: stupidity and evil out of the gene pool. A terrorist moving bombs did not take into account a change in daylight savings time. Blew him up, and no one else , an hour early. Talk about Karma running into Dogma!
In Milwaukee it doesn't matter. Even if she was a felon and even though she has now assumed room temperature, after passing through the hard crack stage, she still has a vote in the City of Milwaukee. All thanks to the DA who will not prosecute a voting violation if it involves a Democrat.
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