Courtesy Kat Cast and Facebook
You’ve probably been reading about the plague of fires throughout the west that are due to — what else? — climate change.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom, right, speaks to the media after he toured the North Complex Fire zone with California Secretary for Natural Resources Wade Crowfoot, left, and California Secretary for Environmental Protection Jared Blumenfeld in Butte County on Friday, Sept. 11, 2020, outside of Oroville, Calif. Gov. Gavin Newsom toured the fire-ravaged region Friday and strongly asserted that climate change was evident and pledged to redouble efforts to “decarbonize” the economy. (Paul Kitagaki Jr./The Sacramento Bee via AP, Pool)
Well it turns out that plenty of the fires are due to reasons not associated with SUVs or cow farts.
An arsonist was caught on camera setting a fire in Kelso, WA. Is this climate change? pic.twitter.com/aISZr9hd0D
— Ian Miles Cheong (@stillgray) September 15, 2020
An Oregon woman ran across across a man on her property over the weekend with a book of matches. He claimed he’s a smoker, but had no cigarettes. Smelling a rat, she then held him at gunpoint until law enforcement could arrive and take him into custody.
She documented the takedown in a Facebook post (language warning) in which she promises to be less agreeable the next time she finds an aspiring arsonist on her land:
I will tell you something though if I need to do this again to protect my family and my neighbors, I will in a heartbeat do it again, except this time I will not be as nice as I was.
HERE IS THE VIDEO
Update:
I read all your msgs to me, even the private ones, I can tell you that this truly did happen…Posted by Kat Cast on Saturday, September 12, 2020