‘He was chasing me around with his shirt on fire,’ clerk says about suspect in Anaheim [CA] gas station blaze

ktla ^ | Tony Kurzweil, Nancy Fontan

[BenLurkin]

Police received a call from the clerk around 3:40 a.m. reporting that a someone was trying to set the gas pumps on fire at the station located in the 2500 block of East La Palma Avenue.

While waiting for officers to arrive, the clerk ended up in a confrontation with the suspect, a spokesperson for the Anaheim Police Department said.

“He was chasing me around with his shirt on fire,” the clerk, Tuan Nguyen, said after the incident.

The suspect eventually entered the store and started to smoke cigarettes behind the counter using his burning shirt to light them, Nguyen said.

Nguyen then got a crowbar and confronted the suspect again in hopes of getting him out of the store but decided to leave after struggling with the man.

[jmacusa]

ROTFLMAO!!! Dude, that's hilarious. The best would be the guy ripping the bottle cap off a beer with his teeth while the shirts burning and he's smoking the butt.

[Starboard]

You really jump to conclusions, don’t you?

I hate what’s happening in California.

So do many others and that’s why they are leaving.

[SoCal Pubbie]

No, I don’t jump to conclusions. That’s why I ask questions. Speaking of jumping, you do seem to jump on every opportunity to badmouth the state.

[Starboard]

Grow up.

[Drew68]

The suspect eventually entered the store and started to smoke cigarettes behind the counter using his burning shirt to light them

That's the good meth!

[SoCal Pubbie]

Such sage advice. Enjoy your Cali bashing in good health.