to enforce a fire ban
On the old show
Let's Make a Deal there was a theme which we'd always refer to as
"You Lost the Car" music. Whenever warranted, my friends and I used to hum the "wah wah wah wah" to add an ironic note to life's little soundtrack. (Later we added in "
Stupid! You're so stupid!" from UHF).
Both sounds leapt to mind when I read that they'd nabbed the person who started the
horrific wildfire in Colorado. Turns out, it was
a US Forest Service employee, who
admitted to starting a campfire within a designated campfire ring while patrolling the forest to enforce a fire ban.
Update: it turns out she started the fire
to burn a letter from her estranged husband. ["Stupid!"]