I saw this posted online to mark the hundredth anniversary of this very peculiar case:

Yes, A.G., we all like to think nothing bad can possibly happen to us ever, but that doesn’t happen in reality, and much as you may have begrudged that $50 (worth about $870 now) fine, you’d have been in a lot more trouble if the building had burned down and people died cos they didn’t know how to get out of it. Fucking idiot. I’m only surprised we don’t see this sort of “safety regulations are against my religion” nonsense more often…
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