WFXT talks to a person who happened to be walking by the Squealing Pig on Smith Street around midnight and spotted a man inside, with the fire just starting.
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Welp, whoever called it...
By Jess Idres
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 12:15am
So the first post of the original article called it, collect your winnings in kudos.
Which is why we don't let
By Rwgfy
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 12:44am
Which is why we don't let North End do outdoor dining
That makes no sense @Rwgfy.
By Don't Panic
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 2:20am
n/t
Tell that to them
By Rwgfy
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 7:54am
Tell that to them
I know you are but what am I
By BostonDog
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:28am
.
Uh Oh
By Michael
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 10:34am
Does the bot need to be refreshed? Or better yet, taken out and thrown down a pit
Serious question for UHubbers
By anon
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:57am
Is the gfy person real? Or are they a bot or somehow using AI to generate comments that appear that they are not coming from a human?
Previously Banned Troll
By Majestic
Fri, 06/28/2024 - 7:29am
Nothing fancy, he’s just a troll who’s running low on material.
Adam had previously banned him under the handle “Refugee” or something similar - can’t say why he won’t ban the new account.
Not only is this guy an
By Don't Panic
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 2:22am
Not only is this guy an arsonist, it looks like he has past experience in setting fires. Would a random person know that you get a bigger, faster blaze with enhanced ventilation?
You did
By WalkingTheDog
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 7:01am
Does that mean you're an experienced arsonist?
I've had Air-Base Ground
By Don't Panic
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:13am
I've had Air-Base Ground Defense training at Camp Bullis in Texas. I'm conversant in the realm of combustible materials.
This is not the esoteric
By xyz
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 7:44am
This is not the esoteric knowledge you seen to think it is.
Double post
By Don't Panic
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:16am
n/t
I also saw it on "Kojack" and
By Don't Panic
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:17am
I also saw it on "Kojack" and "Law and Order". :)
A random person
By ScottB
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:18am
Who did a bit of internet searching probably would. Might be part of how he/she eventually gets caught/convicted if investigators get access to their computer(s).
Pretty sure plenty of people would know that...
By peter
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:56am
Anyone who ever had to watch a fire safety video, plus anyone who learned how to start a fire while camping and blew on it, or has a fireplace at home and needs to open the flue? Or potentially anyone who saw or read about a forest fire becoming severe only after the wind picked up? Also all us old folks who saw Backdraft in the theatres :)
Many random people would know that
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 06/28/2024 - 9:55am
Most local FDs have access to a training trailer that they take to end of season soccer celebrations and town day and elementary schools and the like. My kids and their peers were drilled on stuff like "close doors as you leave" for evacuating from a fire situation. They use the trailer thing to help kids rehearse these behaviors.
Then there are those of us who have worked in laboratories - which would be a lot of people around here. Most people working with or around hazardous materials are trained in preventing the spread of fire.
You got your training in the military, but this isn't a rare sort of thing to be trained on.
F'er Burned a Place That Has A Liverpool Painted Pizza Oven
By John Costello
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 8:06am
Straight to jail. No trial.
life for burning the Shane McGowan painting...
By SAFITZJP
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:07am
feel for all the employees out of work now....
And The Heaney Too
By John Costello
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:30am
What an a-hole.
Can't wait for a Sweetgreen or Tatte to take over the space to add insult to injury.
Probably gonna be a while
By epeemike81
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 10:35am
They were already working on plans to put housing on top... I suspect now that the building has been torched those plans will shift to total new construction, so it's gonna be a while before there's a retail space to take over.
That was such a lovely
By Cher
Fri, 06/28/2024 - 12:21am
That was such a lovely portrait of him.
I hope they get whomever did this so they never do it again. Needless…
I'm not saying it's arson
By anon
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 9:20am
But it's arson. But one question: Why do it at a time, especially summer, where the odds someone would notice, whip out their phone? Not only that, but cams are everywhere in 2024. It's impossible this person was not caught on cam.
Not smart...
By epeemike81
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 10:52am
Yeah, this is why I revised my opinion from insurance fraud arson to dumb person with a grudge arson.
This seems like a decision driven more by passion than planning.
If you let your imagination run wild ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 06/28/2024 - 10:14am
It could be both - they hired a guy who looked like the guy who someone somewhere claimed said he was going to torch the place, and used having aggrieved workers as a cover for hiring someone to do the deed in a way that implicated a grudge.
Hiring the space alien to shapeshift into the aggrieved worker's skin was genius!
What was that joke again?
By Sock_Puppet
Thu, 06/27/2024 - 12:00pm
-I lost my restaurant to a fire.
-Oh, I lost my first restaurant to a fire. I lost my second restaurant to a flood.
-Wow. Bad luck! How do you start a flood, though?
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