He did start the fire

In the fourth episode of Summer Heights High, Jonah Takalua falsely accused his father of touching his genitals in order to avoid an assignment for a class he didn't like (to see it, click here and watch from about 4 mins 15 secs into the video). However, that cowardly act is nowhere near as cowardly as this: a civilian employee set fire to a nuclear-powered submarine because he had anxiety and wanted to get out of work early, Navy investigators said in a complaint filed yesterday. Casey James Fury of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, faces up to life in prison if convicted of two counts of arson in the fire aboard the USS Miami attack submarine while it was in dry dock on May 23 and a second blaze outside the sub on June 16. Fury was taking medications for anxiety and depression, and he told investigators he set the fires so he could get out of work, according a seven-page affidavit filed yesterday in a District Court in Portland (the one in Maine, not the one in Oregon that was almost called Boston). The first fire alone took more than 12 hours to extinguish and caused an estimated US$400 million in damage. This is by far the worst thing anybody has ever done to get out of an undesired task. That bellend should go to prison for what he did. In other news, Sally Ride, who was the first American woman in space, died yesterday at the age of 61 after losing her battle with pancreatic cancer. Her first flight, in 1983 aboard the Challenger, came two decades after the Soviets sent a woman named Valentina Tereshkova into space.