Animal rights terrorists apparently attempted to firebomb a Chico, California, McDonald’s but failed to set fire to the building according to a report on the incident by the Chico Enterprise-Record.
Around 5:30 a.m. on March 4, an employee of the restaurant discovered two one-gallon plastic milk containers filled with a flammable liquid. “Meat is murder,” “Animal Liberation Front” and similar slogans were spray painted in red on the building.
Agents with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Chico police closed the restaurant for 6 hours while they analyzed the crime scene.
Those responsible for the attempted arson left a note at the scene as well as a typewritten note at the office of local newspaper the Chico News & Review. The contents of those notes was not revealed by authorities.
Source:
Incendiary device left at Chico McDonald’s. Eleanor Cameron, ChicoER.Com, March 4, 2003.
Two firebombs left at restaurant. Robyn Moormeister, Paradise Post (Chico, California), March 4, 2003.