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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Fire-breathing Bartenders Arrested, Face 45 Years in Prison


Two fire-breathing bartenders face up to 45 years in prison each for performing flaming bar tricks.

Jimmy's Old Town Tavern owner Jimmy Cirrito said his bartenders have been entertaining his customers -- by juggling bottles of alcohol and spitting out streams of flames using matchbooks and lighters -- for more than a decade and no one's complained. But shortly after midnight on July 24, two of his longtime employees were hauled out of the Herndon bar in handcuffs and charged with three felonies each plus other misdemeanors

"They were being treated as if they were terrorists, charged as if they intentionally tried to burn down the tavern," Cirrito said.

Fairfax County fire investigators charged Tegee Rogers, 33, of Herndon, and Justin Fedorchak, 39, of Manassas, with manufacturing an explosive device, setting a fire capable of spreading, and burning or destroying a meeting house. They also were charged with several state fire code misdemeanors.'

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1 comment:

  1. Maybe they had some undercover people in the crowd. Seriously though, from a health and safety standpoint, that looks scary seeing as they are indoors. If they were outside doing their fire breathing tricks, I don't think there would be a problem, but they are endangering people's lives with that fire eating/breathing/blowing trick.

    Also, I saw a fire in a club once online and I was crying, many people died in the fire and in the crush to get out of fire exits that had concrete on the other side....the people had no chance.

    I don't think they should go to jail for 45 years though, many murderers in the UK for example get less jail time for committing real crimes. They should get a warning and have to take their fire breathing outside.

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