Transient ordered to pay $101M for setting fires
Yeah, right. I'm sure Steven Emory is all shook up about this ruling. What's the judge gonna do, confiscate the guy's shopping cart and cardboard refrigerator box if he doesn't pay?
Posted on 11/18/2008 5:14:08 AM PST by The_Victor
LOS ANGELES – A homeless man has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison and ordered to pay more than $101 million for starting two fires, including one that burned more than 163,000 acres in California two years ago.
Fifty-year-old Steven Emory Butcher was convicted in February of starting blazes in the Los Padres National Forest in 2002 and 2006.
The 2006 fire raged for more than a month and cost more than $78 million to suppress. It injured 18 people, destroyed 11 structures and was the fifth-largest fire in California history, according to the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection.
Looks like he may need a bailout.
is FR up?
He’ll be out in time to vote again for Obama.
are we back?
No.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081118/ap_on_re_us/wildfire_conviction_1
What part of the death penalty don’t I understand?
Why didn’t they order him to invent a time machine and go back to the time he started the fire and not start it this time. Does that make any less sense than ordering a “homeless” man to pay 101 million?
What a stupid ruling and what’s worse, those who voted for Obama will come away from this with a sense that justice has been served.
Yep. Most of the fires out there are usually set.
Sounds like a stage play.
Transient ordered to pay $101M for setting fires
Yeah, right. I'm sure Steven Emory is all shook up about this ruling. What's the judge gonna do, confiscate the guy's shopping cart and cardboard refrigerator box if he doesn't pay?
The part wherein it’s enforced.
The guy actually is being rewarded. Three square meals and all the sex he wants.
No, the judge will probably give this guy 3 hots and a cot with regular conjugal visits from a cellmate named Bubba. You know, perpetual failure to comply and to top it off, they could get back their money if they incarcerate this guy long enough, at taxpayer’s expense of course.
I think you’ve missed the whole point here. They have to pin it on someone why not a homeless person who can not defend himself...it makes everyone happy and everyone feels safe!
No, this a virus in your machine.
I guess he’d better ask the democrats in congress for a bailout. (They’ll probably give it to him.)
He got 4 years? What the heck? How about 40??? ARG.
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