Stupid news, why must you complicate my theodicy?

Hey Lazer and the "Hashem-knows-best" crowd,

What's the divine explanation for this?

Haredi hotheads who are burning plastic garbage bins to protest Friday's Gay Pride Parade are poisoning themselves and their families, according to environmental health experts who say burned plastic releases "thousands" of dangerous chemicals, The Jerusalem Post has learned.

This is particularly sad in light of stories like this:

Whether divinely inspired or not, once lit, the bonfires proved difficult to extinguish. Last Monday as members of the Eda Haredit set fire to garbage in the Mekor Baruch neighborhood next to a building occupied by Ger Hassidim, Avraham Lehrer, one of the tenants, came downstairs to beseech the rioters not to incinerate the dumpsters - and release the toxic fumes of burning plastic.

"The smell hurts the children, our children. What's the point?" he pleaded in vain.

"So shut the windows, everyone is suffering a little for the struggle," one young man replied.

"But why set them on fire? For what? I'm also opposed to the parade. But why harm our children for no reason?," asked Lehrer, already casting suspicion on himself as a traitor.

"You have a part in the parade of abomination," someone else shouted at him. "Be ashamed of yourself, Gerer [Ger Hassid]."

Lehrer and some of his neighbors brought out a hose to extinguish the fire, and were screamed at by passersby. "There's a problem here. They're all shababniks who should go to the army," he said.

Brilliant, team. Because when it comes to birth defects, Tay-Sachs really isn't enough, right?