Carbon County Sheriff’s Office personnel have a “pretty good idea” who lit part of the state’s law book on fire and threw it from the window of a Cadillac SUV in front of the courthouse Monday, the sheriff told Cowboy State Daily.

Fortunately, it wasn’t windy in the morning, added Carbon County Sheriff Alex Bakken in a Monday phone interview.

The pages found burning were from Wyoming Statutes Title 41, which pertains to water rights, he said. That’s an “odd” section of law to burn.

“I don’t think it’s anything specific based on the statute that was being burned,” said Bakken. “I just think it was probably some general unpleasantness.”

“Unpleasantness,” protest, or otherwise, throwing burning substances from a vehicle is a misdemeanor in Wyoming, punishable by up to six months in jail a

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