Sparteye,

That was wonderful! Boy, I'll bet that's still the stuff of legal legend today in your neck of the woods. (One of mine is that one of our workers found such deplorable conditions in one home, that he not only got an order to have the children removed, he took the dog too. Truth.)
I have often thought it was necessary to have a certain sense of humor in jobs where one comes across such miserable circumstances sometimes, and whoever wrote that ruling obviously has one!

And, musick--I'm going to have to think twice about whether I want to have a drink with a firebug, even with AnnaStrophic-the-intrepid to protect me.