From: "Professor Twist" <samriklown@hotmail.com>
To: balloon@balloonhq.com
Subject: Arson Sucks!!!!!!
Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 09:28:12 -0500

Let me start out by saying that Professor Twist, his beautiful attorney, and 
their three pets are ok.
Somebody decided that our storage building looked like a great place to 
start a fire yesterday. Lost performing canopies, tables, antiques, etc. We 
are currently without power, as the fire shorted out our fuse box. All this 
build up to let you guys know I may be out of the loop for a while.
The worst thing here, the thing that kept me up last night, the police, the 
fire investigator, and the neighbor's kids, all point to the couple of 8-10 
year old kids that, in all likely hood, started the fire in retaliation for 
me running them off my property four days ago. I caught them getting up to 
mischief under my carport, and they ran away. Blind idiot that I am, I 
figured that would be the end of it. Little did I know.

I will try to keep checking my e-mail from friends computers. But, my 
friends, nothing hurts worse than thinking kids can do something like this 
maliciously.

Well enough ranting. By the way, I am teaching a Balloon Course at a local 
University this June. I just got the cataloug for their special studies 
program Thursday. My llisting is under "Studio Arts". How cool is that.

Stay Twisted,
Chris "Professor Twist" Burch
Southeastern Twisters Association
http://www.geocities.com/twistersassociation