Was Hayduke Right?

A hilarious passage from Edward Abbey's "The Monkey Wrench Gang" has the character George Hayduke walking into a bar in southern Utah. Since one of the things Hayduke really enjoys is a good bar fight, he loudly announces, "HEY! I hear that Utah is the asshole capitol of the world!"
Sunday (6/30) evening a wildfire started near Springville, just south of Provo. On Monday morning some 125 homes in Springville were evacuated and the fire has since grown to over 3000 acres. What started it? Some asshole was shooting at the insulators on power transmission towers. One of the lines came down when an insulator was hit, arced and sparked, and set off tinder dry grass. Un-freakin'-believable.

And we still don't have the balls to ban the sale of all fireworks.