There was an article in the Stevens Point Journal about a case where a fire that destroyed a home was suspected of being started by a child playing with a lighter. It was a novelty lighter, maybe shaped like a truck or something, that seemed like a toy. A child in a local 2nd grade knew her grandfather was involved in local politics and she said to him that he should pass a law against novelty lighters that look to little kids like they are toys.
Sixteen years later, the governor came to her school and signed the new law banning novelty lighters.
