"prosthelytizing nerd squads going door-to-door" Haha I love it! Every neighbourhood should have a nerd squad :)

My initial thought after reading this was 'thank fuck i live in the UK - that would never happen here'. And then i realised that with Cameron and Osborne in charge, there's now a good chance it might! Anyway, whether the guy paid the $75 or not, what about the animals inside that house? The firefighters could have at least tried to rescue them. It takes a hard-hearted kind of bastard to watch someone's pets burn alive while they have it in their power to prevent that happening. I hope karma bites every one of those firefighters in the arse.