News: 2022-02-07_10-56-37_une-maison-mise-sous-scelles-touchee-par

  ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Une maison mise sous scellés touchée par un incendie criminel à Montignies-sur-Sambre

(2022-02-07_10-56-37 (Belga))


Un incendie, vraisemblablement d’origine criminelle, a touché une habitation mise sous scellés durant la nuit de dimanche à lundi rue des Combles à Montignies-sur-Sambre (Charleroi, province de Hainaut), ont indiqué lundi les pompiers confirmant une information de la Dernière Heure et de l’Avenir. Trois foyers ont été découverts au sein de l’habitation.

Les hommes du feu de la caserne de Marcinelle sont intervenus durant la nuit peu après minuit pour l’incendie.

Une enquête a été ouverte par la zone de police locale. Aucun blessé n’est à déplorer.


The Bulwer-Lytton fiction contest is held ever year at San Jose State
Univ. by Professor Scott Rice. It is held in memory of Edward George
Earle Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873), a rather prolific and popular (in his
time) novelist. He is best known today for having written "The Last
Days of Pompeii."

Whenever Snoopy starts typing his novel from the top of his doghouse,
beginning "It was a dark and stormy night..." he is borrowing from Lord
Bulwer-Lytton. This was the line that opened his novel, "Paul Clifford,"
written in 1830. The full line reveals why it is so bad:

It was a dark and stormy night; the rain fell in torrents -- except
at occasional intervals, when it was checked by a violent gust of
wind which swept up the streets (for it is in London that our scene
lies), rattling along the housetops, and fiercely agitating the scanty
flame of the lamps that struggled against the darkness.