MC Hammer is the star of a new ad trying to persuade viewers to stop using hammers. Yes, MC Hammer has been asked to stop hammer time.. The Can't Touch This rapper appears inside a toolbox in a new spot for 3M's Command Strips â adhesive strips you can use to hang up pictures, rather than hammering nails into the wall.
If you deliberately light logs on fire to roast marshmallows, you have camping skills. If you deliberately set your whole house on fire to collect the insurance money, you've committed arson. The noun arson comes from the Latin word ardere, meaning to burn.. Arson is the act of setting something on fire for a nefarious purpose, and it is, of course, illegal. If you live in a wildfire risk area, you know that sometimes wildfires are caused by natural causes like lightening, sometimes they're caused accidentally by carelessness, and sadly they're sometimes caused by a deliberate act of arson.
To prove malicious arson under California Penal Code Section 451 PC, the prosecutor must be able establish the following elements: 1  The defendant set fire to or burned (or helped someone burn) a structure, forest land or other property AND. 2  He or she acted willfully and maliciously.