An alleged arsonist was forced to strip off their pants after they caught fire during an attempt to set fire to a fast-food outlet in Australia.

Australian police have released CCTV video of a bungling arsonist who set their own pants alight and had to hot-foot it from the scene without them.One of them tried to set the fluid alight at the front of the outlet,

A bungling pyromaniac suffered instant karma when they set a fast-food restaurant on fire and accidentally lit up their own pants. Australian police are searching for the suspects involved.

The security videos show one of the suspects accidentally setting their own trousers alight before stripping off clothes and fleeing the scene. Up Next. Watch: Man trying to escape police gets stuck in chimney.