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Man sets himself on fire at farmer protest, Toronto
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| Yan |
| quote: | It was the kind of situation emergency crews dread. And they were forced to watch it unfold before their eyes.
Police stood by helplessly as a man in a rented truck poured gasoline on himself then set himself on fire at Queen’s Park Wednesday afternoon.
It started just after 12:30pm, when a man drove up in a white vehicle and came to the attention of authorities.
He then took out a gas can from inside the truck, and doused himself with it. After several tense minutes of negotiation, the man tried to repeatedly back away from police, who had surrounded the vehicle. He hit at least one cruiser, before he slammed on the brakes.
Witnesses heard the man shout “I don’t want to kill myself!” and “I don’t want to hurt anybody”. He also threw several envelopes and papers on the ground, although it’s not clear what was in them.
He was holding two lighters in his hand and about 40 minutes into the standoff, he flicked at least one of them, causing him to erupt into flames.
The motive for the bizarre incident isn’t known. It came at the beginning of a major farmer’s protest at the Legislature, but early indications are that is was just a bizarre coincidence, and that the victim isn’t connected to the demonstration.
Crews immediately moved into douse the flames, hosing the man down, and putting him in a waiting ambulance, but it’s not clear yet what his injuries are. |
http://www.pulse24.com/News/Top_Sto...09-014/page.asp
Yeesh. :nervous: |
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| Xenocreator_PG_ |
:eek: :wtf: |
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| {b.s.e.} |
| someone forgot to take their medication it seems. |
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| Vivid Boy |
and then someone asked me the other day from florida why i always seem to be around when fights break out.
tis the city
i love it |
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| Minihero |
| Just stand back and watch him burn I say, he wouldn't be doing it again :haha: |
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| Minihero |
I saw a video on the net like that the other day. Where there was a man on a roof with 2 butchers knifes throwing bricks down at police officers. They came in with tazers. Hang on i'll try and find the link.
*edit* Here we go, heres the website with all the videos on
http://www.taser.com/law/videos.htm
and heres a direct link to the video :D
http://www.taser.com/law/video/wmv/drugs.wmv
Its about 17MB though ;) |
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| Yan |
| quote: | Originally posted by Minihero
Where there was a man on a roof with 2 butchers knifes throwing bricks down at police officers. |
SOMEONE thinks life is a video game.
:wtf:
It's me, by the way. :p |
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| Minihero |
Haha too much GTA i'm thinking lol
link to the video has been edited into my previous post btw ;) |
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| Yan |
I love how the videos are used as promotional material as to the sale of tazers.
I'll comment on the video when it finishes downloading and I view it. Something tells me I'll be a-hankering for a taser after watchin it. :P |
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| Minihero |
Yes you will ;)
The video has 3 clips in :) the first one of the rowdy bloke in the cell is just ing hilarious :haha: |
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| NiteMer |
| Canadians? :rolleyes: :p |
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