[TomGuy]

You have to be pretty bad off to set fire to your house.

According to early articles on this story, that fire did $200 worth of damage. It couldn't have been much of a fire to do so little damage.

[enraged]

“1,000 people and raising $1,800”, soooo they all kicked in their bus fare?

Geez, there were only 180 of us here at work back then and we donated $20k to the Indonisian tsunami fund in 2004.