Paul David Addis. who is accused of setting the Burning Man on fire four days early, has been arrested for allegedly planning to set Grace Cathedral ablaze, San Francisco police said today. Pershing County Sheriff's Office photo
Posted on 10/29/2007 12:37:42 PM PDT by SmithL
SAN FRANCISCO - The man accused of setting the Burning Man on fire four days early has been arrested for allegedly planning to set Grace Cathedral ablaze, San Francisco police said today.
Paul David Addis, 35, was arrested on the cathedral steps at 11:40 p.m. Sunday by police who said they had been tipped that someone intended to set fire to the Episcopal church, police spokesman Sgt. Steve Mannina said.
Addis was wearing an old ammunition belt that carried small explosives, Mannina said. He was booked on suspicion of attempted arson, possession of an incendiary substance, possession of explosives and possession of explosives with intent to terrorize a church.
A bomb dog was brought in to search the area and found no other explosives at the California Street cathedral.
Addis was arrested early Aug. 28 in Nevada and charged with felony arson for allegedly lighting the icon of the annual Burning Man festival on fire four days before its scheduled immolation.
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Paul David Addis. who is accused of setting the Burning Man on fire four days early, has been arrested for allegedly planning to set Grace Cathedral ablaze, San Francisco police said today. Pershing County Sheriff's Office photo
It takes a keen eye to spot the idiots. LOL
I could say many things but I would be banned.
aka Trashcanman
I would think he’d get a bigger punishment in LaLaLand for putting the torch to Burning Man than for destroying Grace Cathedral. True, the Episcopal Church in San Francisco celebrates sodomy and other PC causes, but Grace Cathedral is still a church and occasionally used for “worship.”
At 35 ...
I had a life.
He desperately needs to get one.
Is that camoflauge paint for arsonists? Those pearly whites will give you away old sport.
How could they tell?
In an odd kind of way, setting burning man alight prior to the schedule is a VERY burning man thing to do.
The cathedral however just indicates he’s a firebug. Toss the key.
His induction to the SF city council photo?
CIBOLA!!!!
Even in San Francisco he’ll get 7-14 years for this.
“Who’d want to set a whole city on fire?”
A little to happy with himself, eh?
My mother lives across from Grace Cathedral and when I visit her we hang out the window and watch them trudging around the labyrinth. I’ve never been very sure what their labyrinth had to do with either sodomy or Episcopalianism, but it seems to be something that the Piskies - cowbirds that they are - have dragged into their nest.
I’m guessing that he likes men. A lot.
He looks like he’s trying to be Darth Maul.
(I think setting the Burning Man on fire was funny, though. I mean, it’s *supposed* to be burned!)
Grace Cathedral is made out of concrete...what was he trying to burn?
Pews, maybe. Interior decorative wood carving? Landscape elements?
I’ve always wondered how the Burning Man folks justify polluting the atmosphere. Where’s Greenpeace and the Sierra Club?
Ping.
Hmmmm.... according to that mugshot he’s 5 foot 3. Maybe he has “short man syndrome”.
To (mis?)quote Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land, "Anything will burn, if you use enough dynamite and gasoline."
Arsonists need the Apache slow-cook method to properly cure them.
Sometimes you're better off dead
There's gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West End town
Call the police, there's a madman around
Running down underground to a dive bar
In a West End town
Excellent. Take him out to the beach and detonate him.
ping
Arsonist or performance artist (Seattle P.I. columnist understands Church arsonist)
"On the one hand, I can understand the power of the image to someone who sees the church as an oppressive institution. On the other hand...it's still arson. And given how fires can get out of hand, there's a chance that this little stunt could have damaged other property and hurt some folks."
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