We know who we *won’t* be featuring in the next episode of Capitol Hill Buskers. SPD busted a Pike/Pine street performer Saturday night as the 22-year-old refused to hand over a can of butane and lighter after police saw him spitting fire on E Pike:

Officers Sandlin Grayson and Christopher James were working an emphasis patrol in the Pike/Pine corridor around 10:30 PM when they spotted a four-foot plume of flame shooting over a crowd of people in the 900 block of E. Pike Street.

As officers moved toward the stream of fire they discovered the flames were coming from the 22-year-old man’s mouth.

Officers Grayson and James explained to the man that he was creating a risk for people on the street and asked him to curtail his human torch routine.

The man refused (“in one ear, out the other,” he told them) and declined to tell officers his name, though he did reveal that he lacked a business license and street use permit.

Police say the suspect struggled as they attempted to take away the butane can. He was arrested for reckless endangerment and booked into the King County Jail.

Joe Buckets was not available for comment.