Fire-Breathing Bartenders Must Have Messed with the Wrong Bureaucrat

Fire-breathing bartenders now deemed domestic terrorists.

Fire-breathing bartenders now deemed domestic terrorists.

After spewing fire to the amazement of patrons at the same bar they’ve been tending for more than a decade, two hot-shot bartenders are now facing domestic terrorism charges and nearly half a century in prison.

This sort of nonsense usually happens when a business owner manages to tick-off a fire marshall or health inspector, but usually it results in a hefty fine or being held under close scrutiny. The incident at Jimmy’s Old Town Tavern in Herndon, Va. takes the cake for some bureaucrat having a huge axe to grind, though no one is quite sure at the moment why Fairfax County fire inspectors waited so long to haul-in these bartenders who allegedly pose an extreme risk to local drinkers.

Jimmy Cirrito, owner of the bar, described his bartenders long-time act as involving “juggling bottles of alcohol and spitting out streams of flames using matchbooks and lighters.” When fire officials arrived, “They were being treated as if they were terrorists, charged as if they intentionally tried to burn down the tavern,” he said.

According to TheFoxNation.com, bartenders Tegee Rogers, 33, of Herndon, and Justin Fedorchak, 39, of Manassas, were formally charged with “manufacturing an explosive device, setting a fire capable of spreading, and burning or destroying a meeting house,” in addition to several fire code violations.

Who are the real domestic terrorists? Fire-breathing bartenders or big government bureaucrats abusing their power to destroy small businesses?

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