Serves Him Right

When this guy's dad told him, "Son, someone needs to light a fire under your ass," I'm sure he didn't mean it quite so literally.

A 20-year-old man is being treated at a Birmingham hospital for burns he received while allegedly setting a south Huntsville house on fire Friday...

The suspect, James Rice, was in fair condition at the burn center of the University of Alabama in Birmingham Hospital late Friday, said Hank Black, hospital spokesman. Rice reportedly had burns to more than 50 percent of his body, including both feet, legs, buttocks, hands, arms and face...

Roger Parton was in the neighborhood off Mountain Gap Road when he heard an explosion and looked down the street to see smoke.

"I was about two houses away," Parton said. "I saw this guy running around from the back yard carrying a gas can."

The gas can and the man's feet were on fire, he said. Parton ran to offer help.

"I got down there and he got into his car and I was offering to help and he tried to run me over!" Parton said.

Another witness down the street threw a hammer through a window of the car, a bronze-colored Honda Accord, as it sped out of the neighborhood, said Parton...

Sublett said investigators determined an accelerant had been poured throughout the house. While attempting to ignite the fuel, the vapors that had been building inside the house also ignited and caught the man on fire, he said.