A Florida firefighter did not dig the reception he got when he went to put out a trash fire in the backyard of a Port Charlotte home -- because the deranged homeowner hit him over the head with a shovel.

By the time the fire department arrived at the scene, the blaze had been fed with a mattress, blinds, a ceiling fan and several other home appliances -- and Gregory Sean Turner was standing by watching the flames rise. When the firefighter turned a hose on the conflagration, Turner began stalking toward him and, not noticing that he was also caught in the spray, smacked him with the shovel.

A cop summoned to the scene deployed a Taser and then handcuffed Turner, who said that he'd started the fire and it was his to do with as he pleased.

Source: WWSB