Fire breaks out in trash can, TV news reports on it

Things must be pretty boring over at Channel 2: One of the station's news stories today is "Trash Can Catches Fire At Middle School." So we're thinking, "Oh, the trash can blaze must have gotten out of control and ended up enveloping the school in a fiery holocaust, right?" Well, no. Here's the story:

A Houston Independent School District police officer discovered the fire outside of Black Middle School on 34th Street near Chantilly Lane at about 1:30 a.m.

The fire was extinguished before it was able to spread to the building.

So, uh, an HISD cop on patrol notices a fire in a trash can. And he put it out. Before it damaged anything. Except the trash can. Well, that is important, isn't it? Pardon us while we go call KPRC with a news tip about the abandoned shopping cart sitting in front of our apartment — now there's a story!