LOXAHATCHEE, Fla. (AP) — Authorities say a South Florida man who didn't want a bank to sell his foreclosed home tried to blow it up using a bowling ball as an explosive. 
 
 The South Florida Sun-Sentinel (http://bit.ly/1TsDhbE ) reports 21-year-old Tyler Butler was arrested Monday on charges of arson and using an explosive device. 
 
 A fire started around 10 p.m. Sunday in Loxahatchee. Butler was inside the home when the fire was reported. 
 
 Deputies detained Butler after he left the burning home. As firefighters extinguished the flames, they noticed a bowling ball with a wick attached. 
 
 The sheriff's office bomb squad removed the ball. 
 
 Butler told deputies he set things on fire in the home using a cigarette lighter, he poured gun powder in a bowling ball and used a rope as a fuse. 
 
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 Information from: Sun Sentinel , http://www.sun-sentinel.com/ ||||| It's hard to stand out when it comes to crime in South Florida, but the attempted bowling ball bombing of a foreclosed home does the trick. 
 
 There is little worse than losing your home to foreclosure. 
 
 Tyler Butler, 21, of Loxahatchee didn't want to part with his own; he wanted to blow his old home into tiny parts. 
 
 First Butler tried to use a cigarette lighter to burn his home down. And then he got the bright idea to fill a bowling ball with gun powder and add a wick. By the time authorities responded to the fire, the found the ticking ... or lit ... bowling ball bomb. 
 
 Few places were struck harder by the housing bubble than South Florida. And it has taken South Florida the longest to recover from the foreclosure crisis. 
 
 But we have turned a corner. Housing prices are up. And the foreclosure stock is shrinking. 
 
 But Mr. Butler reminds us that a lot of people are still facing hard times. 
 
 A lot of people can't find work. 
 
 A lot of people are having trouble making that mortgage payment, as the job market remains tough and wages remain low. 
 
 Hopefully, Mr. Butler bit the bullet for all of us. He made crime history with a bowling bomb plot that fizzled ... just like the American dream continues to fizzle for so many people. 
 
 Daniel Vasquez may be reached at dvasquez@sunsentinel.com or @ConsumerDan.
– As the Sun-Sentinel puts it, "it's hard to stand out when it comes to crime in South Florida," but that's exactly what one 21-year-old Loxahatchee resident has allegedly done. Per the AP, Tyler Butler was arrested on charges of arson and using an explosive device after cops say he tried to prevent the bank from selling his foreclosed home in a way that suggests he's watched too many Looney Tunes cartoons: blowing up the place with a bowling ball bomb, complete with what Butler told deputies was a gunpowder-filled center and a rope for a fuse, the Sun-Sentinel reports. People in Butler's neighborhood called 911 to report a house fire around 10pm Sunday, and someone told police on the scene that Butler was still inside. Deputies detained the man as he left the burning building, and as firefighters put out the blaze, they noticed a bowling ball with what looked like a wick sticking out. Witnesses said Butler had mentioned before the fire that "he wasn't gonna leave the house he [used] to live in, that he would burn it down," per a Palm Beach County sheriff's arrest report. (A Seattle man wasn't trying to burn down the house where he lived—he just wanted to kill a spider.)