″According to the mother, right after that she caught him playing with matches.″ ″From that point on, he’s been playing with fire,″ Sigler said. The show features two teen-agers who comment on rock videos and spend time burning and destroying things.Īustin Messner watched one show that had the cartoon characters saying fire is fun, Sigler said. this is going to stick in that kid’s mind and it’s going to be with him for a long time,″ Sigler said. ″When you take a child in the formative years and you get these cartoon characters saying it’s fun to play with fire. ″The mother is attributing the fact that he was fascinated with fire to the ‘Beavis and Butt-head’ segment where they are setting things on fire,″ he said. MORAINE, Ohio (AP) _ The mother of a 5-year-old who started a fire that killed his younger sister blames the MTV cartoon ″Beavis and Butt-head″ for promoting burning as fun, a fire official said Friday.įire Chief Harold Sigler said he wants the cable network to eliminate shows that might encourage playing with fire and would like to see violence on the show reduced.
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