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Woman sued for $2 million after boyfriend torches squirrel on apartment deck, starts massive fire
Michigan Live ^
| 4/3/2014
| Heidi Fenton
Posted on 04/04/2014 6:32:26 PM PDT by wonkowasright
HOLLAND TOWNSHIP, MI -- A woman who signed an apartment lease with her boyfriend and allegedly agreed to be liable for any smoke or water damage, faces a $2 million lawsuit after he attempted to cook a squirrel and started a massive fire with a torch.
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Khek Chanthalavong told investigators the blaze started after he had been using a torch on the deck of a unit he shared with Barbara Pellow, to burn the fur off a squirrel he'd captured. Once the fur was removed, he placed the torch in the corner of their deck, next to a plastic plant holder. He then went inside to cook the rodent.
Pellow awoke to Chanthalavong yelling and throwing water on flames that were quickly growing on the deck. The fire spread and caused major damage to 32 units in the couple's building. Pellow told police she had no knowledge of the torch being used.
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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: fire; holland; michigan; napl; squirrel
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Apartments got burned up real good... pics at link... Should I have posted this in the Smoky Back Room ?
Dumba$$
To: wonkowasright
Khek ChanthalavongOk, that explains the squirrel.
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:34:12 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
To: wonkowasright
should have stuck the squirrel in the microwave.
To: wonkowasright
To: wonkowasright
I have heard of flying squirrels, but frying squirrels is a new one on me.
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:35:08 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: wonkowasright
Squirrel, Barbara?
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:35:33 PM PDT
by
billorites
(freepo ergo sum)
To: wonkowasright
one of the many disad’s of being an apartment owner.
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:35:41 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: wonkowasright
Didn’t turn the torch off??
Dumbass is right.
To: Springman; cyclotic; netmilsmom; RatsDawg; PGalt; FreedomHammer; queenkathy; madison10; ...
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:37:07 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: P-Marlowe
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:37:55 PM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: fhayek
I have heard of flying squirrels, but frying squirrels is a new one on me.
It's all in the accent.
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:38:43 PM PDT
by
andyk
(I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
To: wonkowasright
It works better if you skin the dang thing.
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:39:08 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: GeronL
Mongolian??
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:39:56 PM PDT
by
P-Marlowe
(There can be no Victory without a fight and no battle without wounds)
To: wonkowasright
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:40:01 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: wonkowasright
I drive by the apartments a lot..they’re about 10 miles down the road. There’s a buddahist? temple or something very near there and a large influx of maybe Laotian people have moved to the area in the last few years. Maybe that’s the way they did it in Laos...sans the burning down the building part.
To: wonkowasright
Holland? I’d expect that to be more likely in Skidway Lake, Homer, or Whitmore Lake. LOL.
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:41:02 PM PDT
by
Darren McCarty
(Abortion - legalized murder for convenience)
To: andyk
Yeah, this would be more understandable if Khek were Chinese. Just saying.
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:41:08 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: wonkowasright
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:41:13 PM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: wonkowasright
“Khek Chanthalavong”
We used to call him ‘Alphabits’
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:41:20 PM PDT
by
harwood
(Ann Coulter: Future SCOTUS nominee!)
To: driftdiver
REMAIN CLAM!
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posted on
04/04/2014 6:41:46 PM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
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