Nixa woman uses spicy tortilla chip to start house fire, police say

Not The Onion@lemmy.world – 52 points – 11 months ago

"The report states that witnesses inside the house saw Williams pour gasoline from a soda bottle onto clothes and the floor of the laundry room. Williams then lit Takis tortilla chips on fire and tossed them into the laundry room."

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It was the gasoline and fire that actually started the fire, but the chips didn't hurt

What a stupid, clickbait headline. The chips had almost nothing to do with the fire.

“Nixa women blows up fighter jet with a spicy tortilla chip… She glued it to an anti-aircraft missile”

That's what I'm saying! Like, take it easy already, DEA. I had almost nothing to do with that alleged “massive drugs ring”. So what if you say you have a “mountain of evidence”, you don't see Mt. Everest bragging.

Headline isn't really clickbait. The police really did state that.

Court documents say Williams admitted to police that she started the fire intentionally. She said she used the chips because she knew they would support combustion because of the grease content.

...fire that actually started the fire

"It didn't start the fire, though it may be spicy, it can't ignite things"