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July 13, 2004

Pyro pastor knobbled by bureaucrats

by Feòrag

United States: An Iowa pastor is annoyed because city and county fire codes mean he can't hold a book-burning. The inappropriately named Rev. Scott Breedlove of the Jesus Church in Cedar Rapids wanted to hold his conflagration on July 28th.

We don't want a situation where people are burning rubbish as a recreational fire, said Brad Brenneman, the fire department's district chief.
Linn County won't go for a fire outside city limits, either.
Officials said the county's air quality division prohibits the transporting of materials from the city to the county for burning.

The fire department suggested shredding the material instead but, alas, shredders aren't mentioned in the Bible.

Fire department bars book-burning - Yahoo! News, 12th July 2004 (via Jesus' General).

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user-pic 1: Posted by Andrew Ian Dodge
July 14, 2004 1:20 PM | Reply

Thank you, this gave me a damn good snicker!

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