This story keeps getting more interesting. After allegedly setting fire to a stranger's driveway and being put in psychiatric hold, it is now known that Amanda Bynes didn't act alone. Her Pomeranian dog was with her but she accidentally drenched it with gasoline while building the fire.
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Andrew Liverpool, a witness of the scene, reported pulling his vehicle over to help with the fire and encountering Bynes before firefighters arrived. He told E! News that the actress' pants were ablaze when he offered assistance.
He said she was lying down in the driveway, rolling around to put out the fire on the leg of her loose black pants. When the fire was out, she rushed over to her dog. He added that Bynes was "kind of frantic and discombobulated," and after he moved the gas can to the middle of the driveway for safety, he looked up and noticed the actress had vanished.
Amanda hopped in a taxi and stopped at a liquor store, where the surveillance video shows the troubled star carrying her tiny pooch into an employees only area.
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The store owner told TMZ that the cashier followed her into the back room after noticing something wasn't right and smelling gasoline. He allegedly saw Bynes rinsing off her dog in a sink.
As soon as the cashier confronted the star, she "freaked out" and left the store without further incident.
If the time stamp on the video is correct, Bynes stopped at the store one minute after police received a 911 call about a small plastic gas canister on fire in an elderly woman's empty driveway a block away. But it is possible she went in beforehand.
The driveway is around the corner from the home of Bynes' parents.
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The actress was found by sheriff's deputies about 9pm standing near the fire burning at the house in Thousand Oaks, according to Captain Don Aguilar of the Ventura County Sheriff's Department.
She was questioned by deputies who determined she met the criteria for a psychiatric hold and she was detained, Aguilar said.
The 5150 hold is named after the California state code that allows for involuntary hospitalization for a mental health evaluation.
Bynes' parents claimed the dog after she was put in psych hold. The next day they were photographed leaving a hospital, but declined to comment. Some rumors say Amanda has signs of schizophrenia and parents plan to seek a court ordered conservatorship.
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