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Hoboken park

(Journal File Photos)

A homeless man was arrested and charged with lighting his feces-covered clothing on fire in a Hoboken park, according to a police report.

At 3:38 p.m. on Sunday, police officers responded to a report of a man starting a fire in Church Square Park and possibly setting himself on fire.

Officers arriving at the park, on Willow Avenue between Fourth and Fifth streets, found the 51-year-old man sitting on a bench as a crowd of onlookers steadily grew some distance away from him, officers said.

Police said that in front of the man was a fire contained to a garbage bag in which “burning pieces of clothing appeared to have been covered by feces,” the report stated.

The man remained completely unfazed by the burning items and the arrival of emergency responders, maintaining a blank stare toward the fire, officers said. The man said he just felt like burning stuff, the report stated. The fire was extinguished by Hoboken firefighters and the homeless man was transported to the Hoboken University Medical Center, officers said.

He was charged with disorderly conduct.