April 10, 2014 | Sex & Society

Crazed man burns down porn shop

A Weymouth, Mass. adult store was torched last weekend by a man who later said that one of the reasons for the arson was that God just doesn't like pornography. 

Jon F. Fernald, 44, told police that he had been a customer at Amazing Intimate Essentials and that he blamed the store for getting him addicted to porn. 

Rather than just not going to the store anymore, he chose to burn it down with some gas he stole from a nearby garage. Also destroyed in the fire were two other businesses and an apartment housed in the same building (no one was hurt). 

It wasn't all Fernald's doing though: he told police that voices in his head had egged him on. 

When the officers apprehended him as he ran from the fire they asked him what had happened. Fernald replied, “I’m mentally ill and sometimes I do stupid things.”

Right on two counts there, buddy.