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(182,720 posts) Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:15 PM Mar 2017

Lawyer's Pants Catch Fire During FLORIDA Arson Trial

https://www.google.com/amp/www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/amp/lawyer-s-pants-catch-fire-during-florida-arson-trial-n731161

It seemed like a set up to a tired joke: A lawyer's pants caught on fire in court.

Gutierrez, 28, was in the in the Miami-Dade county courtroom defending 49-year-old Claudy Charles, who was accused of setting his car alight.

But During his closing argument, Gutierrez began to feel heat coming from his pocket where he had several electric cigarette batteries, he told NBC News in an email.

As Gutierrez argued Charles' car had merely spontaneously combusted, the lawyer's pants seemed to do the same.

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Lawyer's Pants Catch Fire During FLORIDA Arson Trial (Original Post) underpants Mar 2017 OP

There is a God! First Speaker Mar 2017 #1

Those things tend to explode rather than just burn Warpy Mar 2017 #2

First Speaker

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1. There is a God!

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:19 PM

Mar 2017

Warpy

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2. Those things tend to explode rather than just burn

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Thu Mar 9, 2017, 05:33 PM

Mar 2017

so I hope the guy is OK. He did make the case for spontaneous combustion, especially if his client had any sort of device with a rechargeable battery in that car. Once those things are damaged by dropping, the batteries can overheat and go boom. Or whoosh.

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