Get a load of this idiot.
A 47-year-old Appleton man charged with arson for starting a fire in his apartment that forced 11 neighbors from their homes told police he was just cleaning his apartment.
With gasoline. While smoking.
Ernest D. Krajniak said the fire started when he tossed his lit cigarette into a pile of gas-soaked clothes and cushions at the building on Appleton's southeast side.
Instead of pulling the building's fire alarm, he yelled "fire" a couple times before walking to the Menasha Police Department to ask for an ambulance to take him to be treated for burns to his face, arms and back.
"Krajniak stated that he wasn't thinking," according to a criminal complaint filed Monday by Calumet County District Attorney Ken Kratz.
He told police he knew gas is flammable.
"I should have never used that," he said.
Calumet County Judge Donald Poppy set a cash bond for $2,500 when Krajniak appeared in court Monday.
Krajniak was treated at a hospital for burns he received in the fire for a day after the blaze, which was reported at 5:45 p.m. Friday.
Witnesses told police Krajniak bought gas twice that day at a nearby station. He told police he planned to clean his apartment with the gas, and pulled everything out of his closet and piled it in the bedroom. The pile was near about five gallons of gas he had poured into plastic ice cream buckets.
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