Smoke signals turned into a
blaze in Tyler Park over the
weekend.
Newtown Fire Chief Adams
Flamerson has wrapped up
his investigation of a 3-acre
fire that swept across a part of
Tyler Park over the weekend.
No one was injured in the
flames, however thousands of
aluminum cans were found.
“It was an impressive sight
to see,” stated the chief.
“Everywhere you looked
within the 3 acres of singed
forest was empty burned
cans. We finally found some
on the outskirts of where the
fire affected the area. It was
beans. Thousands of bean
cans.”
Flamerson feels that this
fire was tied to robberies of
local food stores.
“We have been trying to figure
out where the stolen
beans were going and what
that many beans could be
used for. I guess we know
now,” he continued. “We
don’t yet know how they
managed to transport the
thousands of stolen cans and
will continue to investigate.
We now have three people in
custody which we nabbed
while running from the
flames.”
There has been a string of
food store and convenience
store robberies. The only
thing that was stolen from the
stores were cans of beans-
baked beans, chili beans, any
type of bean that came in a
can. The store managers
were baffled. “That normally
isn’t the high-end theft item,”
Giant Manager Ernie Bertsy
stated. “Normally, baby supplies
or meat gets stolen, but
not beans.”
There is a growing colony
of hobos living within the
Tyler State Park.
The colony has grown into
several hundred with an
exact headcount still in the
works.
The three in custody, one
woman and two men, around
the ages of 25, will not comment
on the specifics of the
bean fire.
The hobos are being taken
for psychiatric evaluations
and counseling to see if more
information can be extracted
out of them.