Word: firebug
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...just dismayed but calling for action. As Kaufman lay in a hospital with burns over 80% of his body, the Money Train incident reignited a debate about whether violence on the screen inspires the real thing. It's a debate that crops up regularly, most recently over the firebug antics on the MTV cartoon show Beavis and Butt-head and the traffic-dodging pranks in Disney's 1993 film The Program. This time, however, the filmmakers appear to have been warned. Jack Lusk, senior vice president in charge of movie permits for New York City's Metropolitan Transit Authority, says...