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Peak California: Arsonist stopped by fitness influencers along Hollywood Hills hiking trail
Not the Bee ^ | 7/15/2025 | Jesse James

Posted on 07/16/2025 10:44:49 AM PDT by Tell It Right

Arsonist in Runyon Canyon gets detained by several presumptive fitness influencers before being arrested by law enforcement.

A man was arrested Sunday after witnesses claimed he deliberately started a fire at Runyon Canyon, the popular hiking destination in the Hollywood Hills.

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California
KEYWORDS: arson; fire

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1 posted on 07/16/2025 10:44:49 AM PDT by Tell It Right
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To: Tell It Right

Ah, fitness influencers. I’ll never be one.


2 posted on 07/16/2025 10:49:38 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: Tell It Right

Like child molesters, identity thieves, and hackers, arsonists should be domed and left to rot where they lay. How many wildfires that burn California to the ground every year were actually the work of an arsonist?


3 posted on 07/16/2025 10:50:28 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Tell It Right
In 1978, Alexander Solzhenitsyn, recently released from the Soviet Union, came to Harvard to make a commencement address. Self-satisfied liberals assumed he would simply attack the Soviet Union (which he did) and declare all the smug East-Coast elites to be morally perfect (which he did not).

During the speech, he criticized the moral decline of the materialist and narcissistic West.

This story made me think of one such quote from his speech:

“The defense of individual rights has reached such extremes as to make society as a whole defenseless against certain individuals. It is time, in the West, to defend not so much human rights as human obligations.”

We will never hear of this arsonists case, nor any punishment for him, ever again.

4 posted on 07/16/2025 10:52:40 AM PDT by PGR88
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To: BenLurkin

I didn’t make it to the gym again this morning
10 years and counting.


5 posted on 07/16/2025 10:54:01 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: BenLurkin

Barring lightning strikes many of the wild-land fires, in the West, are started by sick bastards like this.


6 posted on 07/16/2025 10:54:01 AM PDT by old school
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I wonder what his nationality or background is - homeless, druggie, hispanic or muslim?

Homeless or druggie, well, because. And hispanic because ICE and muslim because that is in literature in arabic found on the southern border.

https://gellerreport.com/2019/11/islamic-state-tells-muslims-to-set-forest-fires-in-u-s-europe.html/

https://www.livemint.com/news/us-news/los-angeles-wildfires-illegal-immigrant-arrested-for-using-blowtorch-to-start-fires-will-arson-charges-follow-11736790386621.html


7 posted on 07/16/2025 10:55:07 AM PDT by Cowgirl of Justice
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To: BenLurkin

I have influenced myself not to become fit.


8 posted on 07/16/2025 10:58:36 AM PDT by crusty old prospector
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The left calls it, "backburning for social justice".

And yes, it's arson and murder. It became a lefty-tool during and after the 2020 BLM-ANTIFA riots. Now it's to effect housing policy for more equitable housing and racial exclusion in areas. So..you burn down paradise to build back lefter.

I was at an Episcopal church where the visiting minister explained and approved of this type of arson. She said that when society is on fire with injustice, you sometimes have to set backburning fires to effectively overcome those social injustices. Really.

9 posted on 07/16/2025 10:59:22 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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Suspected Arsonist: A man identified as Andrew Wistic O’Calliham, a 43-year-old homeless individual


10 posted on 07/16/2025 10:59:23 AM PDT by jjotto ("...saith the LORD: yet I loved Jacob, And I hated Esau...")
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>>man was arrested Sunday after witnesses claimed he deliberately started a fire at Runyon Canyon, the popular hiking destination in the Hollywood Hills.

Maybe he was just preparing the “re-zoning” of Hollywood Hills to make space for high-density section 8 housing. These witnesses need investigating for interfering in government business,


11 posted on 07/16/2025 11:00:17 AM PDT by vikingd00d (chown -R us ~you/base)
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To: N. Theknow

You could be an influencer for not going to the gym. I wonder if there is any money in that?


12 posted on 07/16/2025 11:02:42 AM PDT by Cold Heart (BP S GW)
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To: blackdog

It’s always “By any means necessary” with those people, no matter how evil.


13 posted on 07/16/2025 11:07:34 AM PDT by Antihero101607
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To: Tell It Right

Good, now provide him with a long term behind bars to think about what he did, and to make copycats think about repeating his acts.


14 posted on 07/16/2025 11:09:18 AM PDT by Robert DeLong
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To: Tell It Right

Anyone who would start a fire in the Hollywood Hills is obviously not competent enough to stand trial…..😲


15 posted on 07/16/2025 11:17:24 AM PDT by GSWarrior
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And that from an Episcopal Minister......

We are looking for a better church. So far they are all similar in my neighborhood. Nothing spiritual or of the gospel. It's all LGTBQ sermons, pro immigrants referencing, diversity, social justice, yadda, yadda, followed by communion.

It's a disease infesting everything, and the anti-Trump crap is relentless. I was hoping it would punch itself out, but nope.

16 posted on 07/16/2025 11:22:38 AM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) "Diggin the scene with a gangster lean" (Mayfield, Curtis) )
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To: Cowgirl of Justice

Antifa


17 posted on 07/16/2025 11:24:02 AM PDT by SoConPubbie (Trump has all the right enemies, DeSantis has all the wrong friends.)
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To: Tell It Right

FIRING SQUADS NEEDED! ...imho


18 posted on 07/16/2025 11:43:39 AM PDT by high info voter (Delivery )
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To: N. Theknow

In my house, I renamed our John the Jim. So now I visit the Jim regularly.


19 posted on 07/16/2025 11:44:15 AM PDT by DPMD
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When I lived in California, and lived through too many wildfires that got too close for comfort, I always expressed the opinion that arsonists should get the death penalty. They destroy more lives in more ways than your average serial killer.


20 posted on 07/16/2025 11:51:13 AM PDT by Orosius
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