{"id":2490018,"date":"2025-04-02T13:35:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2490018\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:35:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T13:35:23","slug":"bungling-arsonist-in-australia-sets-pants-on-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2490018\/","title":{"rendered":"Bungling arsonist in Australia sets pants on fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/AFP046906_00.pre.jpg\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t\t      Australian police have released CCTV video of a bungling arsonist who set their own pants alight and had to hot-foot it from the scene without them.<br \/>  Footage of the attack on a fast-food outlet in the southern city of Melbourne showed two people in dark hoodies and trousers with a container of what police described as flammable liquid.<br \/>  One of them tried to set the fluid alight at the front of the outlet, just out of the view of a camera.<br \/>  In an instant, the arsonist is seen again engulfed in flames and then hurriedly removing the burning trousers before running off bare-cheeked with an apparently unharmed accomplice.<br \/>      Victoria state police, who distributed the footage on Thursday, asked for witnesses to the attack, which happened in the early hours of Christmas morning.<br \/>  Investigators have released CCTV and images of two people they believe may be able to assist with their enquires, they said in a statement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Australian police have released CCTV video of a bungling arsonist who set their own pants alight and had to ho<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2490019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[785171],"tags":[133795,98706,528524,32077,939,19294,1670,98751,73191,11802,200,125020,78392,6798,17757,812,4817,3687,4313,31168,1712,345531,6330,784979,2722,11034,784980,1668,3843,13633,11786,3577,16899,21135,302851,482,14115,577,1669],"class_list":{"0":"post-2490018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-australia","8":"tag-australia","9":"tag-jiji","10":"tag-topics","11":"tag-topix","12":"tag-939","13":"tag-19294","14":"tag-1670","15":"tag-98751","16":"tag-73191","17":"tag-11802","18":"tag-200","19":"tag-125020","20":"tag-78392","21":"tag-6798","22":"tag-17757","23":"tag-812","24":"tag-4817","25":"tag-3687","26":"tag-4313","27":"tag-31168","28":"tag-1712","29":"tag-345531","30":"tag-6330","31":"tag-784979","32":"tag-2722","33":"tag-11034","34":"tag-784980","35":"tag-1668","36":"tag-3843","37":"tag-13633","38":"tag-11786","39":"tag-3577","40":"tag-16899","41":"tag-21135","42":"tag-302851","43":"tag-482","44":"tag-14115","45":"tag-577","46":"tag-1669"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114268637318766178","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2490018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2490018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2490019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2490018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2490018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2490018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}