T wrote:
> In article >, ost
> says...
>> Kathleen > wrote:
>>
>>> Nobody whose crimes affected property only, no matter the dollar amount
>>> involved, "deserves" burns over 90% of the body.
>> Meanwhile taxpayers will be footing the bill for the extensive
>> skin-grafting.
>>
>> A guy here in Austin literally burst into flames trying to steal
>> live copper wire from, of all places, an electrical substation.
>> Duh.
>>
>> While the crime itself is minor, he was Life-Lined to San Antonio
>> where they can reconstruct him while the County foots the bill for
>> medical services.
>>
>> In Dave's example, the guy with 90% of burns on his body hasn't even
>> been connected to any of the fires. They did arrest two completely
>> unrelated suspects though. He forgot to mention that part.
>>
>> -sw
>
>
> Survival rates for people burned over a certain percentage of their
> bodies isn't generally good.
swertz is misinformed. Police arrested five people after a disturbance
at a hotel. The guy who was burned was present but was taken to
hospital, not arrested. Two of the people arrested at the hotel have
since been charged with arson in connection to at least one of the
fires. I suppose that we could take a huge leap of logic and assume
that there was an incident that the police responded to and two of the 5
people arrested were later charged for arson in connection with at least
one of the fires set, but the person who had burns to 90% of his body
had nothing to do with the fire.
>
> That said, the guy who cooked himself in the electrical substation is
> surely dead by now.
>
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