Pluralist:
An Australian man has been charged with deliberately starting 17 bushfires this year while out on bail for alleged sex crimes.
Mike Richard Holden, 27, was charged Wednesday in Darwin Local Court as fires rage across the country. An ankle bracelet he had to wear as part of his bail conditions for the sex charges linked him to several of the fires he is accused of starting.
Holden was a volunteer with the Darwin River fire fighting unit in Australia’s Northern Territory when, between January and September, he allegedly started the blazes.
His lawyers argued the prosecution’s case was circumstantial and that he had been at the scene of the fires as part of his volunteer duties. They said he did not fit the profile of a lone arsonist because he works as a mechanic and is in a relationship, NT News reported.
However, the judge denied Holden bail after receiving 33 pages of what he called “powerful” information collected by the ankle bracelet. He said there was great concern of Holden reoffending. The next hearing in the case was scheduled for February. read more
Climate change fried his brain and caused him to start fires and commit sex crimes. Yeah. That’s the ticket.
Give him a free sex change!
And change his name to Richard Holden Nuthin
Give him his sex change…with fire
This man needs to be hung slow
Backdraft all over again?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=piOTzME87Dg
Darwin? A major center of queer “culture” in Australia.
Bet he is twisted in his mind not only about fire.
Q. Anybody got a match?
A. Yeah, my ass and your face.
…my FIRST question is, why the hell was a guy on bail for SEX CRIMES allowed to FIGHT FIRES?!?
…that said, it ALWAYS disgusts me on a personal level to read about someone who was a firefigher in ANY capacity involved in starting fires for a number of reasons, but one of the biggest is that I was parterns with a guy who I THOUGHT was a good friend, who turned out to be an arsonist himself, and a fairly stupid one at that.
…I never talked to him after he was arrested because I probably would have killed him, so I don’t know what his specific motivations were, but becasue the only things (we KNEW about) he ever set on fire were dumpsters, I am inclined to think it was because he simply enjoyed the excitement and cameraderie of being on a fire run and didn’t feel like we had enough, so he was fool enough to cause some more.
And, when I say “Fool”, well, THIS guy set fires in a CAR WITH A FULL SIZED LIGHT BAR ON THE ROOF! Unsurprisingly, an apartment dweller thought it was odd that a fire broke out AFTER a marked vehicle left the spot where the fire broke out at, and was kind enough to mention it to the fire marshal with some detail about the easily recognizable vehicle, and that was his downfall.
This paricular guy I had run with quite a bit, even kept him from falling into a flaming basement when he chose to go in through a window that proved to be lacking a floor for a good 10 feet or so because the fire had eaten it, and it was only by the grace of God I was able to catch enough of a fully outfitted and kind of larger firefighter, and hold on long enough so he could catch the sill and make his adrenline crazed way out from there. We hung out at the firehouse, kept each other amused when nothing was happening, took care of the equipment, and saved lives together as the job required. We also hung out as friends when NOT around fire houses, and he seemed normal enough most of the time.
For all that, I had NO idea that he was running around torching dumpsters. He never gave any hint to me that’s what he was doing, although it cast a bad light on ME because I had to disprove that I knew about any of this precisely BECAUSE it was known that we hung out together and partnered together, and proving you’re innocent ain’t the EASIEST thing you’ll ever do, as the President can tell you.
He wasn’t a sex offender, as far as I know, but I suppose THAT was possible TOO, since he was apparently pretty good at living a lie. We had talked, as men with a shared danger do, about the risks of the business and about arson in particular since they ran a “Juvenile Firesetters” program out of our firehouse as a diversionary program to try to redirect youthful arsonists, and I’m quite sure I had mentioned on more than one occasion that I considered an arsonist as someone trying to murder me and my brothers and sisters, because EVERY fire has risks, and as such, we don’t need anyone causing EXTRA risk for us.
And all the while, I was saying this to an arsonist.
…some are also adrenaline junkies. Adrenaline is one of the purest “highs” you can experience, because it’s a natural reaction to a danger stimulus, heightening your senses, speeding your reactions, giving your muscles more strength, with your own body supplying the God-given “Fight or Flight” drug for you, IF you can force it to. Some people run multiple agencies to increase their chances, since sitting in a firehouse alone doesn’t GUARENTEE you that something interesting will happen, but some may try to force it, too.
Maybe that’s where THIS guy in Australia was coming from. Seems he was already pretty far gone in sin, what with the sex crimes, and in stupid, what with the firesetting with a tracking device on him, but you never can tell. Could be any of these things, or none of them.
There’s just no accounting for human cussedness.
I hope they throw the book at him for the sex offence, get him good and raped up in the clink, yes, but THEN, I want them to pick the book back UP and throw it at him AGAIN for the arson. Setting fires when you’re supposed to be FIGHTING them, in whatever capacity you’re supposed to be doing it, is a violation of a most basic trust that there can be no excuse for.
…shame it’s not a hanging offence. Were it up to ME, it WOULD be.
…THEN, he’d get to look at fire ALL THE TIME.
…a whole LAKE of it, in fact, for all ETERNITY…
https://rossonl.files.wordpress.com/2015/08/lake_of_fire.jpg
Shove a curling iron up his ass and throw him into a swimming pool.
@Kcir
Big T used to be my favorite city. I was proud to say I lived there in my early childhood. I’ve visited several times over the years. I wanted to go back one more time, but I don’t think it’s going to happen now. The desire to see it again is gone.
But honestly, had I grown up in NYC, Chicago, LA, or San Francisco, I would feel shame to have lived in any of those cities as well.
All the big cities in the world are shitholes now, full of effed up liberals and atheists.
Is his name global warming?
I had a chance to get the inside scoop on an arson investigation when a building my friend’s business was in got lit on fire. Small fire, easily extinguished. Every business in the 30,000 sf building had to be totally gutted and rebuilt from the smoke damage. Anyhow, the fire investigator said arson is a sex crime, and it will turn out to be some sort of deviant. Sure enough, the perp was eventually caught and it was a gay transvestite.
It’s a good thing that most criminals are not
very smart and tend to act without thinking.
The problem is that this also describes most
of todays judges and politicians.
TimBucktu:
The city is Great and still quite clean.
The “shame” part is because most of southern Ontario and Toronto voted for Trudeau.
You can visit Toronto and fell welcome, just don’t wear a MAGA Hat since most people within the city downtown are Lefties but still nice politics aside.
MISDIRECTION
Forest fires are caused by muslim terrorists, they have been saying this for decades, and they do it in Israel all the time.
Set a forest on fire and cream your jeans at the same time?
Now that is some messed up shit.