But at the end…. doesn’t it just seem like they were out to get him for SOMETHING?
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Court blames apartment fire on dog
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Published: Sept. 11, 2008 at 4:29 PM
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| HELSINGBORG, Sweden, Sept. 11 (UPI) — A Swedish court has acquitted a man of arson charges after ruling the fire that destroyed his apartment was caused by his pet dog. |
| The court ruled the apartment fire in Helsingborg, which raised arson flags after investigators found three stove burners had been left on to the maximum settings and some paper and a popcorn machine had been atop the stove, was likely caused when Butler, the 30-year-old man’s dog, attempted to scale the stove to retrieve a plate of cookies that had been left on top of the appliance, The Local reported Thursday. |
| However, the 30-year-old man received a 2-month prison sentence after it emerged during trial that he had been driving a car without a license. |
| “Ugh, this is so embarrassing,” the man said after the trial. |
| Butler, the man’s cat and two pet hamsters were killed in the fire. |
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