The movie: "Man in the Wilderness" (1971) featured the main character starting a fire with the pages from a Bible.
But on the Boy Scout Handbook issue, I have seen them defiled in various ways over the years. The most vivid example that comes to mind would be at a winter camp that I attended when I was a Life Scout. I saw another guy, a little older than me, use pages from his handbook to roll a crudely fashioned cigar. The inner contents were not tobacco, of course, but lobolly pine needles. Needless to say, I was ticked off.