{"id":38174,"date":"2020-07-31T20:12:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/grocery-store-owner-reportedly-sets-own-shop-on-fire-to-kill-coronavirus-germs\/"},"modified":"2020-07-31T20:12:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-31T17:12:00","slug":"grocery-store-owner-reportedly-sets-own-shop-on-fire-to-kill-coronavirus-germs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/grocery-store-owner-reportedly-sets-own-shop-on-fire-to-kill-coronavirus-germs\/","title":{"rendered":"#Grocery store owner reportedly sets own shop on fire to kill coronavirus germs"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Grocery store owner reportedly sets own shop on fire to kill coronavirus germs<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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\n An Australian grocery store owner became so \u201cobsessed\u201d with coronavirus germs, he set his own shop on fire to \u201ckill\u201d them, according to a report.<\/p>\n

Edward Guy Mason, 57, who co-owns the business in the town of Bruce Rock, lit three cardboard-filled shopping carts ablaze during a failed suicide attempt on March 25, according to the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/p>\n

Mason eventually fled the inferno before he was arrested and confessed that he believed he had COVID-19 and was protecting shoppers from the virus, the outlet said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI set fire to business to kill the germs,\u201d he said, according to his lawyer, Richard Lawson.<\/p>\n

Mason later added, \u201cSeeing different news<\/a> reports and seeing how it could be transmitted and I thought, \u2018We\u2019re getting boxes coming out of the warehouses, boxes coming from China\u2026 I felt surely there could be germs on these cartons.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mason, who caused roughly $700,000 in damage to the store, pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully damaging a building by fire \u2014 and faced a judge at a sentencing hearing this week.<\/p>\n

Judge John Prior heard that Mason was so riddled with anxiety at the time he set the blaze that his mind had been playing tricks on him.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe decided he had to eradicate himself,\u201d Lawson explained, adding that the grocery store owner also felt intense pressure to keep the shelves stocked.<\/p>\n

Prior sentenced him to a 16-month jail term but suspended it \u2014 noting that Mason had no past criminal record and had received 17 character references. Instead, Mason was ordered to pay his co-owner for half of the damages.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the time, you had an obsession with COVID-19. It impacted on your grocery business. You believed you were infected. You wanted to keep people safe,\u201d Prior said.<\/p>\n

Outside the courtroom, Mason told reporters his stress levels had also been soaring because the store \u2014 which was the only one in town \u2014 had become overrun with customers.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was running a business and just seeing my shelves strip<\/a>ped bare. It was very hard to deal with,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople were driving 30 minutes from another town and they\u2019d just come in and strip my shelves bare if their town was empty.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cThat\u2019s where all the conflict began, because my customers couldn\u2019t understand why they couldn\u2019t get their regular items.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said he now plans to \u201cregroup and start again.\u201d\n <\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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