I scanned this image from one of our local papers (just before my scanner took a fatal dump). I had wanted to go to the newspaper's website to see if I could get a nice, clear digital copy of the image right off the Web, but I was too slow.
Oh, sure, that praying mantis just happened to show up then. Firefighters are trained to notice spectators who seem just a little too interested in the goings-on. Then again, who can blame them for not suspecting an insect? After all, bugs - even bugs with evil claws - can't start fires. It must have had an accomplice!
Well, I managed to track down the photographer who took this picture, Ty Barbour. He declined my humble request to see the other pictures from that roll, until I applied thumb-pressure to his eyeballs. And just look who stepped into frame a split-second after the first photo was taken:
I knew it! This girl is trouble!
For information on this and other embarrassingly-outdated memes, see here.
And, yeah, I know my Photoshopping sucks.
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