Source: dailymail.co.uk 7/25/24
A California sex offender has been arrested for allegedly starting a 160,000 acre wildfire – the state’s largest this year.
Ronnie ____ II, 42, was caught pushing his burning car into a gulley in upper Bidwell Park near the city of Chico on Wednesday, the Butte County District Attorney’s Office announced.
The vehicle then tumbled 60 feet down an embankment, sparking a fire tornado that engulfed more than 71,000 acres of northern California overnight and prompted mass evacuations.
It’s always the worst among the whole that the whole is judged by.
So my question is, what is the public going to say is the worst thing this individual did? The arson or the 288 charge? My guess would be the 288 just because that’s the world we’re living in. No objectivity, or critical thinking allowed.
Some people like to watch the world burn 🔥
If his most recent crime is deliberately starting a fire…then shouldn’t he now have “graduated” to the title of “arsonist“…
The majority of people seem to regard “sex crimes” as the most atrocious crimes in existence (literally worse than murder)…that is the extreme mentality all the laws reflect, anyway. So…wouldn’t those who support the registry “logically” consider someone setting a massive fire (causing horrific destruction and potential loss of life) to be a “far less serious” crime in comparison to say…someone downloading/viewing illegal images in the privacy of their own home…(lawmakers and politicians seem to think so).
Interesting that the tagline, and many in the comment section feel compelled to mention [he is listed on the registry] (as if that were somehow relevant to his recent actions, or…relevant to…anything at all, really), in addition to “why would someone push a burning car into a gulley”. It doesn’t seem to occur to these folks that there are people in this world who start fires for the sake of starting fires (in the words of Michael Caine: “some men aren’t looking for anything logical, like money. They can’t be bought, bullied, reasoned, or negotiated with. Some men just want to watch the world burn.”)
Whatever the case may be…I believe the fact that this individual is on the registry is completely pointless, and was only brought up in an attempt to propagate the patently false, yet persistent belief that individuals on the registry are somehow likely to be more dangerous, and perpetrate more crimes, than everyone else in the world…
The judge is really goin smoke him
The DA is about to set his as a blaze.
Look at the comment section, that comment section is on 🔥 fire!
Wow. Reuters managed to report the story without mentioning the man’s registry status.
https://www.reuters.com/business/environment/raging-california-wildfire-grows-bigger-than-city-los-angeles-2024-07-30/