Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Could Flying Too Close To Sun Cause A Fire?

Monday.

Tuesday night.

Maybe this one, if arson, won't be too difficult to solve. How many people are running around town at 1:30 a.m.?

Infinonytune: My City Was Gone, Pretenders

UPDATE: Highly unlikely this was revengeful arson; the kid's mom still doesn't allow him to play with matches. If it were revenge, it would probably have been a planning commission problem or a health certificate suspension or something similar.

11 comments:

Columbo said...

The website says their kitchen closes at 9:00 PM on Tuesdays. Still it could have been electrical. Might not be a bad idea to spring for a private investigator though.

"If arson", as you write and as my gut said initially, it needn't have been ordered from "on high". That hasn't been the history. The job could have been a more spontaneous target of opportunity from within the ranks of the offended.

MH said...

Did somebody spent the morning on Westlaw and decide to update?

Infinonymous said...

Nope.

The first comment indicated some readers might have over-active imaginations. Without more (and unexpected) information, this is merely a striking coincidence that begs for humorous juxtaposition.

Have you seen the indictment odds (far right column)?

Anonymous said...

What's with the parenthetical odds for Luke?

MH said...

Oops. That was me.

Anonymous said...

Re: Arson

Find out where the construction crew was at that hour - good way to extend the life of a project going into the off-construction season...

Infinonymous said...

(former odds in parentheses)

Columbo said...

Oh, I get it. Sorry, I'll stop wasting your time.

Columbo said...

Wait, one last thing that's just kind of bothering me for some reason ... around when in that timeline do you suppose those cops were told their special duty was coming to an end? They would have protested that the news story was all going to blow over and who cares, but the Chief might have told them, "No guys, you don't understand, this thing is all over the blogs too now, people are trading stories..."

Anonymous said...

So Luke has 3 1/2 Police Officers to protect him? That means they are paid for 140 hours of duty per week. Everyone knows he doesn't show up for work - maybe 25 hours per week. That leaves 115 hours of protection. They are out with him every night at the bars until 2 in the morning. That would be about another 60 hours. Which would leave about 50 hours of more time before getting one cent of overtime. How is this even possible? How could you pay 3.5 police officers and still need overtime? Why isn't Council looking into this? They are blatantly stealing taxpayer money. Just so Lukey can have a nightly designated driver and someone to demand that he never pays the tab.

Anonymous said...

Is anyone even auditing whether the police officers actually worked during all of the time periods for which they are billing the city?

Giving employees unearned bonuses has been known to be an effective tool in getting them to keep their mouths shut.

However, I have NEVER met a cop, who was aware of a public official's indiscretions, who could keep his mouth shut.