What Not To Do If You're Going To Start Fires

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jan 28, 2009 10:50PM

For starters, don't do like on 14-year-old Geneva student and list "arson, anarchy, vandalism and mischief" as interests on your MySpace page. The teen told police that when the night the incident happened - Dec. 20, 2008 - "he got a sudden urge to do something crazy." He got some matches and set out for Western Avenue School.

Upon his arrival, the teen set fire to a can filled with papers, which was located next to the garbage Dumpster, records state. He then walked to the back of the school, broke a window with the scraper and climbed into the building, records state. While inside, he lit pages of books on fire in one classroom, and lit papers inside desks on fire in another classroom, records state. In a third classroom, the teen lit fire to papers sitting on a teacher's desk before exiting out the window, records state.