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St. Cloud (Minn) woman jailed for trying to light boyfriend on fire (Huh?)
Minneapolis StarTribune (aka The Red Star) ^ | 1/12/09 | Paul Walsh - Staff Reporter

Posted on 01/12/2009 2:22:07 PM PST by MplsSteve

A 49-year-old St. Cloud woman is in jail today, accused of trying to set her boyfriend on fire with a blanket and fingernail polish, police said.

The woman, who has yet to be charged, was being held in the Stearns County jail on suspicion of felony domestic assault, misdemeanor domestic assault and interferance with a 911 call.

According to police:

Officers were sent to the 500 block of 9th Avenue N. shortly before 5 a.m. Saturday, after police dispatch fielded a 911 hangup call. Once there, they learned that the victim, a 42-year-old St. Cloud man, and his girlfriend had argued.

At one point, the woman poured fingernail polish on him and the blanket that was covering him and attempted to light him on fire using a lighter and air freshener.

After the man seized the air freshener from the woman, she hit him on the back of the head, and bit him on the upper arm and his chest.

(Excerpt) Read more at startribune.com ...


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: attemptedarson; attemptedmurder; crime
Given how the St Cloud/Stearns County area is, anyone wanna lay odds on whether alcohol was involved in this incident?

Comments or opinions - anyone?

1 posted on 01/12/2009 2:22:07 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Well considering the temp and wind chill factor it isn’t any wonder ....


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3 posted on 01/12/2009 2:23:11 PM PST by MplsSteve
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To: MplsSteve

Clearly Cabin Fever.


4 posted on 01/12/2009 2:27:50 PM PST by Deaf Smith (*No Refunds)
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To: MplsSteve

Assault is assault, whether drunk or not.


5 posted on 01/12/2009 2:28:29 PM PST by wastedyears (In Canada, Santa says "Ho Ho, eh?")
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To: MplsSteve

I guess when was laying spread eagle on the bed wearing nothing but a longing look and his bikini underwear saying, “Come on baby light my fire.” this is not what he had in mind.


6 posted on 01/12/2009 2:36:20 PM PST by Kimmers
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To: MplsSteve

“Hell hath no fury like the wrath of a woman scorned.”-Bill Shakespeare.


7 posted on 01/12/2009 2:46:56 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: MplsSteve
Given how the St Cloud/Stearns County area is, anyone wanna lay odds on whether alcohol was involved in this incident?

Sounds like Sturgis Michigan. Several years ago a woman was charged with the murder of her boyfriend after she set him on fire. Seems they were drunk and arguing when he doused himself with gas and dared her to "light him up".

It was a bad idea.
8 posted on 01/12/2009 3:13:41 PM PST by cripplecreek (The poor bastards have us surrounded.)
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To: MplsSteve

Can you light nail polish? It’s never occured to me to try.


9 posted on 01/12/2009 3:42:28 PM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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To: MplsSteve

Well, he got off better than the one a few weeks ago that died after his “love” doused his privates with alcohol and lit them up. He knocked over the bottle of alcohol and proceeded to torch himself and the house in his panic.


10 posted on 01/12/2009 3:46:42 PM PST by commish
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To: Tax-chick

If it’s acetone based, it should light.

Just guessin’.....

Tried to polish him off, I guess.

;-)


11 posted on 01/12/2009 4:12:35 PM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo (FR......Monthly Donors Wanted)
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo

LOL! Maybe we’ll make an experiment in the summer, just out of scientific curiosity.


12 posted on 01/13/2009 2:41:53 AM PST by Tax-chick (To oppose the god of this world by lifting up Christ.)
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