I'm surprised this hasn't made the diaries already, if it has I apologize.
Authorities have caught the arsonists, it seems.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - Three college students, including two aspiring actors known around campus as pranksters, were arrested Wednesday in a string of nine church fires across Alabama.
Federal agents said the defendants claimed the first few fires were set as "a joke" and the others were started to throw investigators off the track.
A joke, indeed.
Moseley also told agents the four church fires in west Alabama were set "as a diversion to throw investigators off," an attempt that "obviously did not work," the affidavit said.
I wonder why that would be? Why would more fires be a diversion? Because they happened slightly further away?
More (a little Freeper goodness) on the flip.
One thing I find curious is the
reaction to this story on Free Republic. Specifically (for those with weak stomachs, I can save you the trip) mostly that these are idiots, which they are, but that they have started a curious thread of logic:
- The boys are theater majors (Ok..)
- Therefore, they must be gay (uh...)
- So therefore they are wacky lefties (waitaminute there..) since everyone knows gays 'and most lefties' hate the Catholic church (?!??) and since Hollywood are all liberals too...
This is what passes for logic there? Whee...