i didn't know it was cancelled because of a fire
The mother of a 5-year-old boy who started a fire that killed his younger sister blames the MTV cartoon "Beavis and Butt-head" for promoting burning as fun, a fire official said on Friday.
"When you take a child in the formative years and you get these cartoon characters saying it's fun to play with fire," said Fire Chief Harold Sigler, "this is going to stick in that kid's mind and it's going to be with him for a long time."
The "Beavis and Butt-head" feature portrays two teen-age cartoon characters who comment on music videos and spend time burning and destroying things.
The 5-year-old, Austin Messner, watched a segment in which the characters said fire was fun, Chief Sigler said, and, "according to the mother, right after that she caught him playing with matches." Boy Set Bed on Fire
The mother, Darcy Burk, was concerned enough that she took the boy's bedroom door off the hinges so that she could watch him more closely, the fire chief said.
