Today's "moron uses lighter to watch gas siphoning" brought to you by Warrensburg NY:

A Warrensburg man burned himself and is facing criminal charges after he used a lighter to check how his efforts to steal gasoline were going, causing a fire that destroyed a forklift, police said.

Glen B. Germain Jr., 19, of Glen-Athol Road, was charged with petit larceny and fourth-degree criminal mischief in the May 4 fire on Don Potter Road, according to the Warren County Sheriff’s Department.

He suffered minor burns in the blaze when he lit a lighter in an effort to see how full the can he was filling had become, sheriff’s Investigator Kibby French said. It ignited gas on his hands and in the can, police said.

This actually looks to be pretty close to where Ellen grew up. See Ellen, rednecks don't just live in the south!