SAN ANGELO, TX — A man was arrested by the San Angelo Fire Department during the weekend after an arson investigation concluded at the 2600 block of Yale Ave.
It was recorded in a court document that the man, Michael Douglas Hagood, age 35, was arrested on March 3 around 9:00 p.m. after he tried to burn his home down while his wife was still inside.
Carl Berry, an Arson Investigator with the City of San Angelo Fire Marshall’s Office, was sent to investigate the crime scene and spoke to all those who were involved including the defendant after the Miranda advisement was given to him.
Two families were occupying the residence at the time of the incident Hagood and his wife, along with Zach Noel, his cousin, and his wife. The second couple has kids who live there with them, but they were not present at the time of the incident.
The document states the defendant and his wife had been in an ongoing verbal argument most of the afternoon the day of March 3.
That is when Michael Hagood got two cans of gasoline and a lighter and proceeded to tell his wife and cousins that he was going to burn the house down.
Noel, Hagood’s cousin, tried talking him out of the act several times but Hagood continued to warn Noel and his wife to collect their things because he was going to burn down the house.
Zach Noel witnessed Hagood pouring the cans of gasoline on the house and then he saw him attempt to ignite the lighter to place the flame to the gasoline to ignite the house. He tried to do this while he knew that his wife was still in the house, court documents state.
Thankfully, the lighter would not ignite a flame and Michael Hagood was arrested and charged with Arson of Building/Habit/Vehicle Reckless Cause Damage.
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Good Grief, would you look at that photo !!!!!
You don't have to read a story to come to the conclusion that this dude is nuttier than Grandma's fruit cake !!!!!!
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PermalinkHe's obviously smiling. That's just how this guy smiles.
So we've read the spin, but what really happened? Most likely scenario:
Man gets grief from his possessive, battle-axe wife for having a smile that looks like the Hulk missed a few bowel movements and she demands he mows the lawn. Affable guy goes to a nearby gas station to fill up his containers, comes back to make the mixture his lawn mower requires but starts getting delirious and develops blurred vision from the fumes, losing coordination and spilling the fluid. Being delirious and having vision problems, our zany lunk tries to use his lighter to shed some light on his situation.
Meanwhile, his jealous taskmaster, fed up with his perceived ineptitude and certain he must have been out carousing in the time it took him to get to the store and back makes up a wild story based on tenuous circumstancial evidence and calls the police to give him another hoop to jump through today for his (in her imagination) lying, cheating, eye-contact making ways. The cops are called and he's booked, still smiling despite the eye irritation from the fumes.
And amidst all of this distracting, dramatic misdirection, attention is (almost) completely drawn away from the fact that the gas station fat cats never bothered to put warnings on their pumps about fuel containers and using lit flames as a light source when working with their plastic swipe sold, automatically vended, devil's bolero juice that any toddler with a card and a sippy cup could ignite the entire county with.
About time those fat cats are held accountable in court, really.
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