Man Who Tried To Burn Ex-Girlfriend’s House With Cheetos Is Convicted
Those Cheetos really were flaming hot.
A man in Taunton, Massachusetts, is going to jail for two and a half months for setting his ex-girlfriend’s house on fire while she was still in it.
Investigators said Shemroy Williams used a bag of Cheetos as an accelerant in the March blaze, the Taunton Gazette reports.
The 31-year-old attempted to ignite the home in five different locations, and he wedged a propane tank against the house while a fire on the back porch was burning, investigators said. The tank had been taken from a nearby cooking grill, police told the Taunton Gazette at the time of the incident.
“Oh my God, he tried to kill me,” the victim said after she escaped the house and stood outside with a friend, according to the newspaper.
Williams had told his ex-girlfriend that he was thinking about killing her, she told police, according to the Taunton Gazette. He had destroyed her cellphone and cut wires under her car that he might have thought were a brake line, police said.
Williams was arrested about 100 yards from the house while carrying two lighters and a bag of Cheetos. He was charged with malicious destruction of property.
A website called Lifehacker reports that oily snacks like Cheetos, Fritos and Doritos are useful for starting fires in a pinch.
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