Karen Coulon, Gorgeous Reporter at WLOS, Set Her Boyfriend's Bed Afire

[NC Judge SAM J Ervin iv REEKING SEWER OF DEPRAVITY]

But she skated.

http://www.topix.com/forum/city/asheville-nc/TQEQJGVLQP5IG7RJH

The jury acquitted her. Some of the jurors believed she did not intend to burn the house, just Bob Haggard's clothing.

https://mountainx.com/news/community-news/0517motive-php/

It was a sympathy verdict. The woman was shapely and quite beautiful. I always wondered what she saw in Robert Haggard, who was a bit of a dolt.

Another reason for her acquittal, I'm sure, is her choice of lawyers. She had Bob Long gunning for her, and at the time he was in the top ten of NC's trial lawyers. And I always suspected prosecutor Kate "The Hijacker" Dreher may have "thrown" the case. Katy was an angry feminist.

Which reminds me on the issue of intent. A friend asked me to slide underneath a car he had junked, a '56 Studebaker, and remove a butterfly cutout, which he wanted to install in his gorgeous '53 Studebaker Hawk. We were both teenagers. So, tools in hand, I commenced work. The next thing I knew I was swarmed with angry yellow jackets and stung all over my head, face, and arms.

I jumped out from underneath and got a torch lit to burn them out. The fire spread from the torch to the undercarriage of the car and it went up in flames like a house fire. I never would have believed that thing could have made such a hell of a fire. And motorists who beheld the flames leaping 50 ft. into the air drove up off the highway to see because they thought it was a house burning down.

I was 17 at the time and distraught and stood there on the porch shaking while dear Mrs. Chandler, mother of David the owner, tried to console me. I knew that David would be angry and she did too. "That's the best thing that could have happened to that old junker," she said.

That old car saw some service at the Forks before it ended up junked in the field. And with a big V-8 engine, it was a running piece of plunder in its day.

"You burned my Rudy," David said with a grin. (Over and over and over again.) Hell, he still reminds me of it.