California Woman Starts Fires to Protest Gas Prices

Talk about getting hot about high gas prices (forgive me, that was a terrible pun). One woman in California is so irate, she decided that setting fire to two gas station bathrooms – and, inexplicably, a Starbucks – was the best way to ‘take a stand’ against rising gas prices that are putting a pinch on Americans’ wallets.

InsideBayArea.com has it:

Police received a report at 10 a.m. about a woman using a fireplace log and lighter to burn the restroom of an Arco gas station at Camino Tassajara and Tassajara Ranch Drive in Danville, Williams said. A gas station clerk put out the fire and then called police.

Soon after, police received a report of another restroom fire, this time at a Chevron station at Crow Canyon Road and Camino Tassajara. A fireplace log again was used and a woman matching the description of the suspect in the Arco case was reported in the area, Williams said.

A third call came soon after, when a restroom was reported on fire at the Starbucks, at 11000 Crow Canyon Rd.

No structural damage occurred in any of the restrooms, Williams said.

Craig was spotted by a Danville police sergeant at a nearby McDonald’s restaurant. She had eight logs with her, Williams said.

Apparently, she woke up in the morning and thought, ‘what can I do about high gas prices? Oooh, I know! Where are my arson supplies?’ It must have been funny for the people who were sitting near her in McDonalds before the cops came in, wondering what the hell this crazy lady was doing with eight fireplace logs.

*Note: Drew Barrymore was not involved in this particular incident.

Link [InsideBayArea]

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