If recent events are any indication, there might very well be a tiger freely roaming the streets of Detroit while casually armed with a flamethrower right now. That particular tiger's status as escaped photoshoot victim aside, one thing is certain: personal flamethrowers are now an official problem for the city. In fact, one Detroit-area mayor is now on a campaign of enlightenment aimed at removing the bizarre flame-centered device's baffling legal status.
Warren Mayor Jim Fouts says he is "very concerned" about personal flamethrowers, claiming they will most definitely cause house fires, general property damage, and death. "It's very dangerous in a lot of situations," says Fouts. "The pain and death it could impose is overwhelming. You know something like this will be used by bad people for bad things."
Of course, the companies manufacturing these totally safe personal flamethrowers vehemently disagree. "Vehicles have been used to run people over," Ion Productions Team CEO Chris Byars tells Detroit Free Press. "It's how a product is used that determines punishment for the operator. It's a matter of education and respect for safety."
And so it is that all of this, the tigers and the flamethrowers, still sounds like the plot of the next Tyga video.
