Location: Little Rock, AR.
My elderly neighbor has a Little Free Library in front of her house. It’s had an issue with drugs in it, so I told my kids to stay away. However, they don’t always listen and my daughter and her cousin found some fireworks in it before the 4th. I only let them keep a box of snappers and black cats and told them to put the rest back for other people.
Yesterday, the Little Free Library exploded. My neighbor came over yelling at me because she was blaming my daughter, who wasn’t even home because she was working at her uncle’s church, because she had seen her putting fireworks in the LFL. This same neighbor previously denied ownership of the LFL when I confronted her about the drugs in it, but now she’s claiming it’s hers.
Can my daughter get in trouble for this? She’s only 12 and she wasn’t even home when the explosion happened. I’m pretty sure what happened is that the fireworks just got too hot and ignited. I also have photos of the drugs in the LFL that this lady is now taking ownership of.
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It’s much more likely that some other kid (or even adult) decided to light a firework or firecracker and blow up the library. Paper ignites at 450+ degrees, gunpowder at 800+ degrees. So it’s unlikely that the fireworks ignited simply from heat. Even Little Rock heat. Whatever the case, if your daughter didn’t do anything, she didn’t do anything.