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Security video captures woman setting herself on fire while torching car, deputies say (w/video)
The Birmingham News ^ | 5/28/2010 | Carol Robinson

Posted on 05/28/2010 3:12:34 PM PDT by notsofastmyfriend

A Boaz woman trying to retaliate against the person who repossessed her car got burned in the process.

Literally.

Authorities say Haleigh Elizabeth Boland, 26, accidentally set herself on fire while she was torching the car of the person who had taken hers. To make matters worse, the entire incident was caught on tape.

"It was just a big act of foolishness all the way around," said Etowah County Sheriff's spokeswoman Natalie Barton.

The incident happened May 8 when authorities said Haleigh Boland and her father, Benny Gene Boland, 50, went to a home on Carlisle Cut-Off Road in the Mountainboro community and poured gasoline on a car.

When investigators talked to the victim, they found the crime was recorded by a video surveillance system mounted on the home.

The video shows a person deputies say is Haleigh Boland catching on fire and taking off her burning clothes as she runs to a getaway vehicle driven by her father.

"It was a team effort," Barton said.

Father and daughter are charged with first-degree criminal mischief, which is a felony, authorities announced today. They have been released on $2,500 bond each.

Haleigh Boland suffered first- and second-degree burns on her upper body, Barton said.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: darwinawards; napl; pwn3d; stupidcriminals
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To: Lockbar

Guilty.


21 posted on 05/28/2010 3:56:49 PM PDT by Wierzbowski
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To: notsofastmyfriend; pandoraou812

Father and daughter team eh? The dumbass doesn’t fall far from the dumbass tree. LOLOL


22 posted on 05/28/2010 3:58:24 PM PDT by TigersEye (0basma's father was a British subject. He can't be a "natural-born" citizen.)
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To: Lockbar
Haleigh Boland suffered first- and second-degree burns on her upper body, Barton said.

And after that ... she's still ...

NOT GUILTY!

23 posted on 05/28/2010 4:01:30 PM PDT by library user
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To: notsofastmyfriend

Nothing say dumb like holding a Home Depot 5 gallon pail with gasoline and gas fumes while using a 30 cent, made in China lighter.

( I give her a 3.8 on her ‘Flaming Polynesia Dance’ routine. )


24 posted on 05/28/2010 4:06:50 PM PDT by Leisler
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To: Leisler

Why were there TWO things on fire in the video? What else was on fire?


25 posted on 05/28/2010 4:11:18 PM PDT by library user
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To: notsofastmyfriend

The Stupid It Burns!!


26 posted on 05/28/2010 4:20:50 PM PDT by Charlespg
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To: library user

The bucket.


27 posted on 05/28/2010 4:35:36 PM PDT by BenKenobi (I want to hear more about Sam! Samwise the stouthearted!)
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To: Leisler; notsofastmyfriend
Dumb is also:

1) Pouring out a trail of gas,

2) failing to light the end -- while holding the gas-filled bucket,

3) dropping the gas bucket at the end of the trail (between you and escape),

4) walking back up into the middle of the poured trail,

5) standing there while lighting the gas under your feet,

6) torching yourself, -- and

7) running back through the fireball from the flaming bucket...

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"Stupid is as stupid does..." -- F. Gump

~~~~~~~~

(BTW, did anyone else notice that car driving merrily on by -- while the flames were lighting up the countryside?)

28 posted on 05/28/2010 5:49:06 PM PDT by TXnMA
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To: notsofastmyfriend

I’d say she was really burned up over the repo.


29 posted on 05/28/2010 5:52:33 PM PDT by Joan Kerrey (The bigger the government = The smaller the people)
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To: notsofastmyfriend
Father and daughter are charged with first-degree criminal mischief, which is a felony, authorities announced today. They have been released on $2,500 bond each. Haleigh Boland suffered first- and second-degree burns on her upper body, Barton said.

Amazing video!

30 posted on 05/28/2010 8:20:12 PM PDT by rawhide
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To: Ezekiel; MeekOneGOP; Conspiracy Guy; DocRock; King Prout; Darksheare; OSHA; martin_fierro; ...
She wanted to be the next Michael Jackson.


31 posted on 05/28/2010 8:32:26 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (Just another day in Oceania.)
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To: notsofastmyfriend

Stupid should hurt.


32 posted on 05/28/2010 9:00:39 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: notsofastmyfriend

What an idiot.

I’d love to be a fly on the wall at that woman’s trial.

Or better yet, sitting on the jury....


33 posted on 05/28/2010 9:03:25 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: notsofastmyfriend

Drop and Rol!! Drop and Roll!!!

LOL
Thanks for the just before bedtime laugh.


34 posted on 05/28/2010 9:20:31 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: notsofastmyfriend

She shoulda used a Zippo.


35 posted on 05/28/2010 9:22:01 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Krankor
lol

It was pretty hilarious

36 posted on 05/28/2010 9:23:08 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: Wierzbowski

I don’t know if i consider her guilty.
I see at least a tiny hint of beauty in almsost all women.
Some have alot of it and some only have that cute smile or eyes or cheeks etc.

Mind you when i said “Almost all women”, HT and HC and MO etc come to mind.


37 posted on 05/28/2010 9:41:14 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

” I see a tiny bit of beauty in almost all women”

man you must be using the Hubble telescope to look at Helen Thomas


38 posted on 05/28/2010 9:43:18 PM PDT by advertising guy (Consumer Of Confiscated Liquors Czar)
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To: notsofastmyfriend

Stop, drop, and book ‘em, Dano.

}:-)4


39 posted on 05/29/2010 4:33:49 AM PDT by Moose4 (November 2, 2010--the day that "YES WE CAN" becomes "OH NO YOU DIN'T")
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To: Slings and Arrows; TXnMA
What TXnMA said in Post #28.
40 posted on 05/29/2010 4:50:04 AM PDT by TheOldLady
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