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Some piece of shit managed to burn a large hole in one of our local city park picnic benches.. ☹️
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this post was submitted on 20 Jun 2026
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Does the park have BBQ pits? I'm just wondering if this was unintentional by someone using one of those cheap, disposable camp stoves that's just a foil pan filled with coals and a grate to grill on.
No, the park doesn't have their own grills. They don't mind people bringing their own grills for parties, as long as people are responsible about it at least.
I wasn't around to see whatever happened, but all the evidence I've seen so far, I feel it was a foolish houseless person..
I really don't know, I didn't see what happened 🤷🤔
So you didn’t see what happened, but you feel it was a foolish houseless person… actually, although I wasn’t there, I feel it was… YOU! Yes you, dressed up as a caretaker, with a rubber mask, which I will now (scoobydo!!) pull off. My GOD, it was YOU! I knew it!
Still, maybe don't be so judgemental about it. It's very plausible that this could be a completely accidental fire.
Someone leaves a water bottle sitting on the bench in the sun, it refracts the sunlight into a point and ignites the wood, and this is how much it burned before somebody noticed and put it out.
Someone's cell phone battery was overheating and puffing up, and they put it down on the bench just to get it out of their pocket, but then it went into full thermal runaway and caught fire, and this is how much wood it burned away before someone managed to knock it down onto the pavement instead (there appear to be scorch marks on the pavement below, which might support this theory).
Someone was hosting some event at the park, and they ran an extension cord across the bench. But then they overloaded the cord and there was a weak joint here that started a brief electrical fire.
So, my spidey senses still believe that some idiot placed a rack, a pot or pan, and some coals right on the table to cook some food.