The MirrorARCHIVES: Sep 30-Oct 6.2004 Vol. 20 No. 15  
Man bites dog

Young man's fiery fancy


 

The human male's need to gawk at naked ladies starts around adolescence and, for many, that adolescent never really goes away. A 14-year-old in London, England, may be getting a valuable lesson on taking "No" for an answer, depending on what punishment the courts hand him down.

The boy had gone to a magazine store to buy a copy of Playboy. After being told to come back in a few years, he snuck around to the back of the store. A few minutes later it was on fire.

While the shopkeeper dealt with evacuating his family from their apartment above the store, the boy boarded a bus and set fire to one of the seats. After a picture of the lad taken from the bus's security camera was splashed in a local paper, his parents brought him to police. The boy, who has a history of setting fires in the toilet at home, pleaded guilty to two counts of arson.

» Scott Saxon

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