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Amazing Raw Vid: Arsonist Sets Fire to Salon and Barely Escapes
- Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:40am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Police have released security footage showing the moments a Jacksonville, FL arsonist set fire to a salon — and barely escaped the consuming fire:
The Florida Times-Union reports early damage estimates are as high as $100,000. Salon owner Semone Blair is a former model who, after falling on hard times, worked to raise enough capital to open the business.
“If they can find the person, then I will definitely have some peace in myself,” she told the Times-Union. “Knowing they are still out there, and not knowing why they did that is still an obstacle. … I am paranoid.”
Police released the video in hopes that someone can identify the suspect.
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NancyBee
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 8:38amBad Haircut?
Report Post »Pixelguy
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 4:34amApparently “Einstein” didn‘t know that if he throws gasoline on women’s hair salon hair product bottles / chemicals, he just made a bomb. See how everything exploded so fast?
Funny how stupid some people are. Sad for the salon owner.
Report Post »fbw
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 2:54pmDid any one notice that this person carried a package in and placed in on the counter, then poured gas on it. The owner said she had money problems. It looks like a insurance job to be.
Report Post »biggreenboo
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 3:41pmThey said she had hard times then got the money together to open the store… but most of the time it’s the owner that lights it up. “Broker0101 is an ASS!”
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 2:35pmhot dam
Report Post »inferno
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 2:30pmSociety is blessed, since most of his kind are extreeemly dumb !
Report Post »psst
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 1:33pmUm. Florida did experience a cold snap.
Report Post »Some folks will do anything to bring some heat on themselves.
N37BU6
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 1:00pmAccelerants in closed spaces… when will people learn?
Report Post »6.8 SPC
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 3:52pmThey don’t – That’s why natrual selection works, if allowed to weed us from morons like nappy in da vid……
Report Post »krenshau
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:50pmI hope she had insurance, and maybe carbonite.
Report Post »timej31
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:15pmProbably another Media Matters guy.
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:27pmNu uh, everybody knows all the crazies are tea party conservatives.
Report Post »mikenleeds
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:07pmGod loves dumb people too
Report Post »Lantern
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:03pmInsurance?
Report Post »guyperram
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:01pmIt was probably some poor unemployed wage slave trying to cook a few (stolen) hot dogs so he could feed his starving kids. All because thos “evil” republicans wouldn’t give him 30 years of unemployment insurance.
Report Post »Hey, maybe I should write for Media Matters. I can sling nonsense with the best of them.
Gonzo
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:26pmYou forgot, he’s spending all his money to pay for health insurance.
Report Post »cessna152
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:52amHeat Miser?
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:59amCould it have been Al Gore seeking to make Global Warming happen?
Report Post »GeauxAlready
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:49amI‘m tell’in ya’ll Nappy Hair is fighting back.
untameable-kate
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:13pmYou’re killing me. Stop already my laugh muscle is getting a cramp.
Report Post »TERMLIMITSNOW
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 4:17pmyour nappy hair fetish makes me laff
Report Post »broker0101
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:47amLet me cover this one for y’all. MTNCLIMBERJIM could have shot the guy with his huntin’ rifle. A few more of you wish the arsonist had been burned to death and the rest of you are praying for somebody.
Report Post »Proud AF Oathkeeper
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:56amYour right! Actually, right now, I am praying for you.
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:58am@Broker 0101
To put it this way: You constantly whine and complain, most of the time we at the Blaze ignore you and the rest of the time just laugh.
Deal with it.
Report Post »Maybe the GEESE Know More than the BEES Know
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:00pmJesus loves YOU Broker0101.
Report Post »Merry Christmas ! !
mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:11pmHi BROKER,
You need to quit watching so much porn, talk with your wife and then pray together.
Report Post »Merry Christmas
untameable-kate
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:21pmBroker you are such a cute little smoochie bear, does your mommy know you missed school today?
Report Post »8jrts
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:47pmBroker, from reading so many of your posts, you seem like the kind of person to accuse others of things YOU might actually be thinking or doing in secret…..were you praying you could shoot the guy while he was burning to death?? I wonder.
Report Post »Sgt.Crust
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 5:06pmHey Broker101, wrong yet again! Move along folks, it is just another ******* trying to start a BBQ! Too bad broker couldn’t have been there, or maybe it was him doing it? lol…
Report Post »mtnclimberjim
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:47amIt was the owner. Went after the records.. It’s tax time folks. That’s one way to try and get out of it.
Report Post »It would be better to just send the gov a letter telling them to just piss off.
StMichelob
Posted on December 18, 2010 at 11:24amNow that’s funny right there, I don’t care who ya are.
Report Post »BigDog2372
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:44amHe barely escapted?
Report Post »untameable-kate
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:51amToo bad he escapted at all, not very Christian of me I know, but these guys are human garbage. ESCAPED
Report Post »snowleopard3200 {mix art}
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 11:57amMy God, the place went up in a firestorm!
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:13pmmost Arsunist bearlee ESCAPTED……..look up the stais tis ticks….
Report Post »Cobra Blue
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 12:30pmBreak out the weenies and marshmallows…..Too bad the arsonist couldn’t hang around and be the quest of honor at the BBQ. SMOKIN’
Report Post »GdHUs
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 1:46pmHey, Snow. Repeat after me. Ga- so- line.
Report Post »6.8 SPC
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 2:08pm“Shi but a shame bro, dat gazoline dune blowed all up in yo ass chill”
(I’ve been working on my jive speak since 2009)
Report Post »proudinfidel54
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 2:19pmUNTAMEABLE-KATE, I see you would make a good English teacher (correcting spelling), I use to have a crush on my English teacher….I would write her love notes…she would grade them and send them back…lol
Report Post »knotaclu
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 4:11pmMany of you do not realize why the early responders to this story are PURPOSLY mispelling.
Report Post »Dustyluv
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 5:38pmI doubt he will escapted the flames of hell…
Report Post »grandmaof5
Posted on December 17, 2010 at 6:42pmHaving been born and raised in Jax (don’t live there now) I went to the Google map to check out the location of the spa. I‘m not saying this was racially motivated but I definitely wouldn’t rule it out which would be a shame. Too bad the guy got out.
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