# Got a light? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 27, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909 "2009-08-27T14:48:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/1 "2009-08-27T14:48:43Z")
A 19-year-old wouldn’t give a 13-year-old a cigarette – so the 13-year-old doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire. [Link](http://www.mlive.com/news/muskegon/index.ssf/2009/08/boy_accused_of_lighting_neighb.html) > [@](#): > > According to the police report, “Jeremy stated he was smoking a cigarette and (the boy) kept trying to grab it.” > > “Jeremy told him to knock it off but (the boy) continued to grab at the cigarette. Jeremy stated they argued back and forth about it…(the boy) got mad and told him he was going to get some gasoline and throw it on him and light it,” the report said. > > Ruiz didn’t believe the boy would actually do it, but the boy retrieved a small gasoline container, splashed gasoline on the front side of his shirt and flicked a lighter against it, police said. Just get me a cigarette! Please, all I want is a cigarette! And he wouldn’t give it to me! All I wanted was a cigarette, just one cigarette, and he wouldn’t give it to me! Just a cigarette! ---
**Author:** ![Colophon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f05b48/32.png) [@Colophon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colophon)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/2 "2009-08-27T14:50:49Z")
Edit - never mind. I can’t read. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/3 "2009-08-27T15:00:12Z")
Last year in London, a 41-year-old (me) wouldn’t give a 15-year-old a cigarette. So the 15-year-old and his friends jumped me and broke my jaw. ---
**Author:** ![Markxxx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5daacb/32.png) [@Markxxx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Markxxx)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/4 "2009-08-27T18:28:26Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > A 19-year-old wouldn’t give a 13-year-old a cigarette – so the 13-year-old doused him with gasoline and lit him on fire. > ! I guess he showed her ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/5 "2009-08-27T19:14:48Z")
> [@Markxxx](#): > > I guess he showed her Yeah, but gasoline ruins cigs. ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/6 "2009-08-27T19:15:43Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > Just get me a cigarette! Please, all I want is a cigarette! And he wouldn’t give it to me! All I wanted was a cigarette, just one cigarette, and he wouldn’t give it to me! Just a cigarette! Sounds like he should be Institutionalized. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [August 27, 2009, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/7 "2009-08-27T20:04:02Z")
It’s not his fault that he can’t behave. Society made him go astray. He said, switching songs. ---
**Author:** ![Savannah](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Savannah](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Savannah)\ **Post date:** [August 28, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/got-a-light/507909/8 "2009-08-28T02:38:03Z")
> [@jjimm](#): > > Last year in London, a 41-year-old (me) wouldn’t give a 15-year-old a cigarette. So the 15-year-old and his friends jumped me and broke my jaw. I’m so sorry. I think youth today are feral. I hope I’m wrong.