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PORT ANGELES -- A game of tag with a flame and lighter fluid has sent an unidentified man to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle to be treated for serious injuries, said the Clallam County Fire District No. 2 chief. Volunteer paramedics and emergency medical technicians were called to an area 2 miles east of Port Angeles at about 8 p.m. Monday, said Fire Chief Jon Bugher. Bugher said several people had been playing a game called "lighter tag," which involves squirting themselves with lighter fluid and then lighting the clothing of the person who is "it." The tagged person beats...

Officers bury tortured cat, investigate dog’s deathBy Bernie Delinski Staff Writer August 14, 2002 Email this story. TUSCUMBIA - A small marker stands at the small mound of newly dug dirt behind the Colbert County Animal Control Office. "Jump over the rainbow bridge into the green pastures below and run free, little friend," it reads. The saying is a prayer traditionally given at funerals of police dogs killed in the line of duty. But Tuesday, it adorned the small grave of a cat. Animal control officers buried the cat a day after they discovered its burned body in a wooded...

"They had a party, and someone decided to torture a cat," Michael said. "They tied a shoestring around its neck and held it up by the string, squirted it with lighter fluid and lit it on fire." Full story here, http://www.timesdaily.com/news/stories/22194newsstories.html