VIDEO: 'Disgruntled customer' sets items on fire with hairspray blowtorch inside store

Friday, November 30, 2018
PHILADELPHIA -- Police say they're looking for a "disgruntled customer" who got creative with the way she torched items at a store.

The woman is seen in surveillance video using a hairspray bottle and a lighter to make a blowtorch.
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She then reached through an opening in the store's front counter and burned several items.

No one was injured.
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Police say they will charge her with arson when they find her.

Her exact motive isn't clear, but for now police are just referring to her as a "disgruntled customer."
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