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| Above, a screen shot from a video of the arson. |
A stupid act was preceded by a stupid act that took place earlier in a bar.
The two suspects in the arson fire of the Southernmost Point landmark buoy were apprehended from a tip from a pissed off bartender. The pair had been drinking earlier and didn't tip the bartender.
According to Fox 13 News:
KEY WEST, Fla. - Always remember to tip your server, if you know what's good for you.
A tourist made a big impression in a Key West bar by ordering drinks three times on New Year's Eve without leaving a tip. That enabled the staff to easily track him down after police released webcam video showing vandals setting fire to a Christmas tree.
The arson caused more than $5,000 in damage to the city's landmark buoy marking the southernmost point in the United States, and sent the island's "coconut telegraph" gossip chain into high alert, the Miami Herald reported Tuesday.
The bar's general manager, Daylin Starks, turned to recordings from the "ton of cameras" that watch over the bar each night, and matched credit card receipts to time-stamped videos of the suspects, identified by Key West police as 21-year-old Skylar Rae Jacobson of Henrietta, Texas, and 22-year-old David Perkins of Leesburg, Florida.
The buoy has since been repaired.
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