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    Police: Foreclosed Home Set Fire; Man Shot

    Wounded Homeowner In Stable Condition At Hospital


    PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- Police officers shot a man several times Friday morning after he set his foreclosed townhouse on fire, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

    WPLG-TV reported that a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy went to a townhouse at 738 SW 107th Ave. to serve an eviction notice about 11 a.m.The real estate agent for the property confirmed the man inside the home was Allen Gauntlett, 52, who had lost the home to foreclosure after owing $10,000 in homeowners' dues and fees.

    Police officers said Gauntlett would not come out of the home, and the deputy called for backup."As we were sending a unit to that location, the BSO deputy then called again and said that the subject was setting the house on fire," said Sgt. John Gazzano, of the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

    "They said he put gasoline in his whole house and set it on fire, and the windows are all burned out, and the door has burnout around it," said neighbor Kara Burbano.Police said Gauntlett walked out of the burning house and got into a fight with officers, so the officers shot him.

    From Sky 10 overhead, Gauntlett's boots and blood could be seen lying on the pavement near the home. Gauntlett was taken Memorial Regional Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

    Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue said his injuries were serious and life-threatening.

    No firefighters or police officers were injured.Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue said the fire was contained to one unit, which had damage estimated to exceed $70,000.

    "The houses are connected, and it scared me because someone that was so careless of their neighbors, that would just set the house on fire, maybe, you know, he could have been my neighbor and set my house on fire," Burbano said.

    Pembroke Pines police are investigating.

    http://www.news4jax.com/news/28571977/detail.html


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    Re: Fighting FIRE with fire

    Originally posted by don View Post


    Police: Foreclosed Home Set Fire; Man Shot

    Wounded Homeowner In Stable Condition At Hospital


    PEMBROKE PINES, Fla. -- Police officers shot a man several times Friday morning after he set his foreclosed townhouse on fire, according to the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

    WPLG-TV reported that a Broward Sheriff's Office deputy went to a townhouse at 738 SW 107th Ave. to serve an eviction notice about 11 a.m.The real estate agent for the property confirmed the man inside the home was Allen Gauntlett, 52, who had lost the home to foreclosure after owing $10,000 in homeowners' dues and fees.

    Police officers said Gauntlett would not come out of the home, and the deputy called for backup."As we were sending a unit to that location, the BSO deputy then called again and said that the subject was setting the house on fire," said Sgt. John Gazzano, of the Pembroke Pines Police Department.

    "They said he put gasoline in his whole house and set it on fire, and the windows are all burned out, and the door has burnout around it," said neighbor Kara Burbano.Police said Gauntlett walked out of the burning house and got into a fight with officers, so the officers shot him.

    From Sky 10 overhead, Gauntlett's boots and blood could be seen lying on the pavement near the home. Gauntlett was taken Memorial Regional Hospital, where he was listed in stable condition.

    Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue said his injuries were serious and life-threatening.

    No firefighters or police officers were injured.Pembroke Pines Fire Rescue said the fire was contained to one unit, which had damage estimated to exceed $70,000.

    "The houses are connected, and it scared me because someone that was so careless of their neighbors, that would just set the house on fire, maybe, you know, he could have been my neighbor and set my house on fire," Burbano said.

    Pembroke Pines police are investigating.

    http://www.news4jax.com/news/28571977/detail.html


    Pay your loans or you are going to get shot! Prison is too good for you!

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    • #3
      Re: Fighting FIRE with fire

      ...We didn't start the fire
      No we didn't light it
      But we tried to fight it...
      --Billy Joel--

      Perhaps in a small way the FIRE is slowly burning out?


      Credit Suisse is about to announce a huge round of layoffs as part of a more general statement on cost savings measures, Reuters reported.

      The Swiss bank will slash between 1,500 - 2,000 jobs, according to a Swiss newspaper Neue Zuercher Zeitung, and is expected to publicly announce the plan on Thursday when it publishes its quarterly earnings...

      With trading sluggish, most of the major banks have indicated big headcount reductions were imminent.

      Morgan Stanleywill cut hundreds of jobs from its brokerage division. BarCap has already commenced a round of cuts.Goldman Sachs and Bank of America have also started to cull workers in the last month...

      UBS and Credit Suisse layoffs may be good for banking sector, expert says

      UBS and Credit Suisse are expected to lay off thousands of people after a worse than expected quarter for Switzerland’s two largest banks...




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        Re: Fighting FIRE with fire

        When our economy was characterized by production, recession layoffs didn't change the nature of the economy. I wouldn't be optimistic with FIRE's layoffs changing anything. I believe outsourcing and automating was the norm in boom times.
        Last edited by don; July 28, 2011, 11:53 AM.

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        • #5
          Re: Fighting FIRE with fire

          Egads . . .

          Police: Pa. woman set fire with foreclosure notice

          The Associated Press

          Published Wednesday, Jul. 27, 2011

          CORRY, Pa. -- A northwestern Pennsylvania woman tried to smother her sleeping adult son before she set her house on fire with foreclosure documents and sliced her wrist with a razor, police said.

          Eve Shreve was arraigned Tuesday on charges including attempted homicide and arson in the March 18 fire in Corry, about 25 miles southeast of Erie. She covered her face and didn't comment as she was led to and from her arraignment, where she was released on bail.

          Shreve's husband told officers his wife had admitted setting the fire using a foreclosure notice received the day before and then tried to kill herself by cutting her wrist and taking some sleeping medicine to "overdose," according to an affidavit police filed with the charges.

          Before that happened, police contend the 47-year-old Shreve tried to smother her son by holding his face down into a pillow while he was sleeping and after she had given him Benadryl, an allergy medication that can cause drowsiness. Shreve stopped when her son woke up and told her "she was scaring him," police said.

          A short time later, emergency crews responded to the fire, which Shreve's son escaped because he heard a smoke detector.

          Shreve, however, was unconscious and had to be rescued by fire crews. She was taken to Corry Hospital and later transferred to UPMC Mercy Hospital in Pittsburgh, but has since been released.

          Corry police Chief Fred Corbett said authorities determined the two small fires had been intentionally set, one in a closet and the other in the basement. The basement fire was kept largely in check by a plastic water line that melted.

          http://www.sacbee.com/2011/07/27/379...fire-with.html

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          • #6
            Re: Fighting FIRE with fire

            It's impossible to know how much of this is 'revenge' arson, but there are a lot of arson events on foreclosed homes. Quick list from Google News:


            Dallas, TX
            Mount Pleasant, WI
            East Haven, CT
            Astoria, OR
            Bridgeport, CT
            Edinburgh, IN

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            • #7
              Re: Fighting FIRE with fire

              Setting the fire with the foreclosure papers.

              Who says there's no poetry among the sheeple

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