Smoke Out

I guess it's unreasonable to expect a local dumbass to understand the basic principles of fire. Channel 9 reports:

A home at 33rd Street and Mersington Avenue was damaged by fire Wednesday when a man tried to smoke out a family of raccoons that had invaded his home . . . The man told KMBC's Maria Antonia that he had a rag with kerosene on it on the end of the stick, and he was trying to get the animals out when the eaves caught fire.

Also, the headline calls them "varmints" because apparently their Granny from The Beverly Hillbillies is writing the news today. Which makes me wonder if the word "vittles" can be reliably translated from Independence, MO speak.