Just ask the authorities in Brazil, who have been faced with farmers burning bags of beans and chanting slogans borrowed from recent nationwide protests to demand fatter state subsidies.
Then they would make a clamor, or throw in a burning plastic bag.
They fried their catch on tin plates heated by burning plastic bags.
Some families have small stoves but can't afford wood, so they are burning plastic bags and grocery boxes.
Grainy footage shown on WNBC (see video below) shows two men with backs to the camera, one carrying a plastic garbage bag, walking toward a trash pile, and then a bag burning.
One leak was an absolute cracker: it was the only time I have been handed the near-mythological brown envelope in a corridor somewhere and, after peeking inside, felt as if the contents were burning in my bag as I raced back to my desk.
On Wednesday, the Internet lighted up with rage at the story of the five pit bulls left burning in a trash bag outside a beverage warehouse in Brooklyn.
"Burning schools, burning markets.
As I trudged up Fifth Avenue after this miserable interlude, I carried my shoulder like a bushel-bag of burning kindling and could hardly stay upright the three blocks to my hotel.
