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note to self: don't carry lighter in front pocket.
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Taken from the Orlando Sun-Sentinel
although he didn't die....he just kinda blew up.
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Man's shirt erupts in flames after he is shot with Taser
By Erin Ailworth & Ken Ma
Orlando Sentinel
Posted February 23 2006, 3:00 PM EST
DAYTONA BEACH -- Dennis Crouch had already slashed himself. And when he refused to drop his knife, Daytona Beach police Officer Betsy Cassidy decided she had no choice.
"Taser! Taser!" Cassidy shouted as she sent a two-pronged wire, packing 50,000 volts, at Crouch's chest. What happened next stunned everyone.
A Taser probe pierced the pocket of his khaki shirt -- and ignited the butane lighter inside. Crouch's pocket exploded in flames.
"The subject," recounted Sgt. Al Tolley in a subsequent report, "immediately dropped the knife."
Officers grabbed Crouch, threw him to the ground and rolled him around till the flames went out, Tolley said. The Daytona Beach man, 53, was taken to Halifax Medical Center with minor burns and two self-inflicted stab wounds in his stomach and chest.
Speaking by cell phone from his hospital bed Tuesday, Crouch said he had been drinking at the time and didn't remember everything that happened the night before.
"Why did they get into my house?" he asked of police. "I didn't invite them into my house. They come into my bedroom and shot me with the Taser, and it [the lighter] exploded."
The bizarre burning ended an evening that records show began with Crouch drinking at a friend's house, then apparently becoming depressed over his medical and financial problems. Suddenly, he grabbed a kitchen knife and stabbed himself in the chest and stomach, police records indicate.
The friend got scared and called police about 9:20 p.m. Crouch fled for home on nearby North Grandview Avenue.
"He stuck the knife in his belly, ma'am, so I thought that was the time to call you," the friend told a 911 dispatcher during a 14-minute call. "And he was bleeding, so I said, `Well, I can't put up with this.'"
When he got home, Crouch began arguing with his wife, Cecilia, 54, about going to Las Vegas, according to police reports.
Police say she ran from her home in fear when her husband again went for a knife. Officers had to kick the door down to get into the apartment, according to reports. Crouch stood near a back bedroom with an 8-inch knife to his stomach.
After repeated requests for Crouch to drop the knife, Cassidy went for her Taser. That's when the lighter ignited.
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/lo...mostemailedlink
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| washout |
more from the sunshine state lol.
can u imagine stabing yourself ??
oedipus rex style, not quite as bad though in the tummy. |
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| Jim |
| Or you could try not stabbing yourself and getting shot with a taser :p |
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| Protege |
| I used to live nearby that guy. Daytona has a lot of wierdos:wtf: |
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| Zewad |
| yay for florida, yet again!! |
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| [MaRt] |
| Wow, that's pretty damn cool. |
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| tubularbills |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zewad
yay for florida, yet again!! |
seriously! this weird better stop before i go down there for spring break. haha |
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| Protege |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
seriously! this weird better stop before i go down there for spring break. haha |
youre going to daytona for spring break? why? |
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| MeLLyMeL |
hahaha
i bet that must have freaked out the cop
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| DigitalMP |
| the south has such a high concentration of backwards people. |
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| Zewad |
| quote: | Originally posted by tubularbills
seriously! this weird better stop before i go down there for spring break. haha |
just think though you could be the next TA story!! you'd be famous!!! |
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| Ripped Bag |
| The guy should have been Darwinized, oh well. |
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