Burning a Spider Leads to Wildfire

From an AP news report:

A Utah man has been arrested on accusations he started a wildfire while trying to burn a spider with his lighter.

Cory Allan Martin, 26, told deputies that he spotted the spider Monday while he was in a hiking area in the foothills south of Salt Lake City near the city of Springville, shows a probable cause statement. He acknowledged starting the fire, but didn’t explain why he was trying to burn the spider.

The report quotes a person from the Utah County Sheriff’s office saying this:

What led him to stop and notice a spider and decide to try to burn it, we don’t know. There may not be a why. He might not even know a why.