The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" To Rob You Blind - Plot & Excerpts
to Rob You Blind 10… Playing with Fire It looked like a napalm drop. — Anonymous 10. Among fly fisherman in the Pacific Northwest, Liam Wood was a wunderkind. He started casting at age nine and was soon tying his own flies. Still in school, he got a part-time job at a sporting-goods store that outfitted fly fishermen. Five days after graduating from Sehome High School in 1999, Wood grabbed his waders and headed for Whatcom Falls Creek, hoping to hook rainbow trout. It was a perfect day for doing what he loved best. Until, that is, he took a deep breath of cool June air. Liam Wood, eighteen, collapsed and drowned. Just upstream, Stephen Tsiorvas and Wade King were doing what many ten-year-old boys do, playing with fire. They had a blue butane cigarette lighter. It was spent, but when they flicked the flint, a tiny spark ignited 237,000 gallons of gasoline, killing every living thing for a mile and a half along the banks of Whatcom Falls Creek. “It looked like a napalm drop,” one resident said.
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