Young man sets himself alight in north Dublin supermarket

http://www.breakingnews.ie/2006/11/02/story283470.html



My cousin was in the supermarket yesterday when this happened with her baby and her mother and needless to say, she was highly scared and disturbed
As people when trying to put him out he was on the floor and as she looked she thought someone had set something on fire like paper or something and seen it was a guy she started screaming!
She was only a few feet away from him as she was in the Toy Dept!

Now what was going through my mind when she told me this was what would have to be going through someone's mind in order for them to do this, never mind the fact it was in a toy dept of a supermarket

petes

Read this in the paper this morning. Mad indeed.

layke

I have no idea what you are supposed to say to that. Poor focker, obviously unstable. Don't suppose anyone can find out the reason why he did it?

He's said to have 90% burn's on his body
My cousin said the way he was she'd be surprised if he lived!

petes

coolsmileygirl wrote:

He's said to have 90% burn's on his body
My cousin said the way he was she'd be surprised if he lived!

90% burns is not a good sign. Poor lad.

bizmark

Wonder what drove him to do that

Rb

bizmark wrote:

Wonder what drove him to do that

Yeah, what would drive someone to a: End their life in one of the most, if not the most, painful methods possible and b: To do it in the local Tesco.
The consequences of such actions are blatantly obvious, surely he would have realised that if somehow he lived, he'd be left in agony and mutilated and shipped into an asylum with padded walls...yet he still did it.
Crazy stuff alright, the poor guy.

rb_ie

rb_ie wrote:

Yeah, what would drive someone to a: End their life in one of the most, if not the most, painful methods possible and b: To do it in the local Tesco.
The consequences of such actions are blatantly obvious, surely he would have realised that if somehow he lived, he'd be left in agony and mutilated and shipped into an asylum with padded walls...yet he still did it.
Crazy stuff alright, the poor guy.

Obviously when you get into that state where all you want to do is kill yourself, youre not going to think about the consquences of if you lived..

.. though I'm not sure why he decided to set himself alight. Surely if he wanted to do it in Tescos, diving head first off the top wouldve been more effective ..

Faith

God, I think it's worse that they saved his life. He clearly wanted to die and now he's going to live, but be unrecognisably disfigured.

scojones

Heard this on the Jerry Ryan show. Gas.

phantom_lord

Poor guy.

road_high

Thats horrendous. I think burning yourself like that must be the worst thing imaginable really.I'd much rather be dead instantly than prolonging the agony in hospital with 90% burns.Must be hardest for this young mans family.

Savman

I'm sure the many victims of house fires and 3rd degree burns would be livid that such a person would subject themselves to this voluntarily. With that in mind, I'm torn between sympathy and apathy.

pbsuxok1znja4r

Savman wrote:

I'm sure the many victims of house fires and 3rd degree burns would be livid that such a person would subject themselves to this voluntarily. With that in mind, I'm torn between sympathy and apathy.

Livid? Yeah, it's a flaming disgrace :rolleyes:
Pffft. People can subject themselves to whatever they want. I heard that with burning alive, what actually kills you is your heart exploding or something. Sounds painful.

Terry

sjones wrote:

Heard this on the Jerry Ryan show. Gas.

this is Ireland. we call it petrol.

Pighead

julep wrote:

this is Ireland. we call it petrol.

juleps back!

Pighead told yas that he wasn't holed up in the Ailwee caves with Michael Jackson and The Gnome as his hostages. Tell them they were all wrong julep, they were, weren't they?

Hail 2 Da Chimp

Some people will do anything for a bargin...

I bet he immediatly regretted that decision

Terry

Pighead wrote:

juleps back!

Pighead told yas that he wasn't holed up in the Ailwee caves with Michael Jackson and The Gnome as his hostages. Tell them they were all wrong julep, they were, weren't they?

they were/ are right. i'm using my mobile phone to post this.
the jackson fella is playing with the fiddle i bought him. i had heard he likes fiddling.

Does he have jesus juice too?

Anyways, obviously he should've used more petrol.

r3nu4l

Tha's tragic indeed. Poor guy must have been in an awful state to do that. To be honest if I ever felt like killing myself I don't imagine I'd do it that way, sounds like the most horrible way to do it!

Off-topic, yep, welcome back julep*







*I know your ban button probaly needs some exercise from lack of use recently but please don't ban me for straying off-topic, pretty-please, wheedle, whine

letterman

maybe he was cold

Wishbone Ash

rb_ie wrote:

shipped into an asylum with padded walls

Won't be so easy to admit him now as the much more stricter Mental Health Act (2001) came into force yesterday.

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

if you can't get admitted to an asylum for walking into a crowded shopping center and setting yourself on fire .. then um.. actually, maybe he was a buddhist monk and he was protesting... something

tj-music.com

Faith wrote:

God, I think it's worse that they saved his life. He clearly wanted to die and now he's going to live, but be unrecognisably disfigured.

True

monkeyfudge

I heard it was actually Methylated Spirits that he used. I don't think they have cans of petrol on the shelves in Tesco.

I got my head stuck in the turnstile in that shopping centre when I was a kid and they had to get the fire brigade to get me out... not quite setting myself on fire, but it still made a scene.

muppetkiller

It's crazy but if he wanted to set fire to himself in a Toystore with many witnesses he obviously wanted to be a headline. An attention seeking suicidal crazy person ? Bit odd if you ask me..

Slutmonkey57b

Not really suicide is a fairly narcissictic act anyway.

This guy should have looked at the RATM cover to see how a REAL man does it.

fish-head

Jesus H... If he was unhappy before he set himself on fire I don't see how he's going to cope with being unable to move a finger without immense pain.

The_Minister

rb_ie wrote:

Yeah, what would drive someone to...... b: To do it in the local Tesco.

Isn't it obvious? Cheap petrol.

Pal

The wisecracks on this thread are in very poor taste.
Perhaps one of the mods might kindly close it please.

whiskeyman

Pal wrote:

The wisecracks on this thread are in very poor taste.
Perhaps one of the mods might kindly close it please.

it's expected given it's in AH tbh.
There's a thread about it in the Dublin forum that wise-crack free (so far).

Sir Digby Chicken Caesar

could you suggest some wisecracks that aren't in poor taste? we'd be only too happy to oblige

Katykaboom

When my aunty was a kid about 30 years ago, she was sitting up on the hills in fairview park just beside the tolka with her friend, both of them were 7, some randomer man walked up to her, asked her the time, and when she replied 6pm, the man doused himself in lighter fluid or something and set himself on fire.

They have to be mentally insane.

Steyr

Why didnt he do it at home instead of going all the way to a shop.

Steyr

Steyr wrote:

Why didnt he do it at home instead of going all the way to a shop.

'Cause doing stuff in a shop is all the range now.

God love whoever was on hygiene duty that day...

Dark Hair

Steyr wrote:

Why didnt he do it at home instead of going all the way to a shop.

Maybe he had to buy the matches/lighter?

Wishbone Ash

Katykaboom wrote:

They have to be mentally insane.

I didn't know that there were other kinds of insanity!

Tar.Aldarion

When you decide to kill yourself, it's not always planned. It probably took him in the moment and he cracked.

EDIT: Insane in the membrane!

Chucky the tree

I cant see him serviving with 90%.

There were plenty of bonfires on halloween night, why didnt he just throw himself into one of them?

Chucky the tree

Answered a minute before i even asked the question. Well done Tar!

Dave!

Feckin mad-man.....

Never heard of overdosing?

Wertz

Incinerating yourself as a form of suicide shows a tremendous amount of self loathing and possibly guilt....I mean as a cry for help, it's over the top, no matter if you live or die you're f*cked, the act makes a very lasting impression on anyone who witnesses it and the pain involved before death, which at 90% burns is moreorless inevitable, depending on the degree of depth, is intense.

The guy is either a substance abuser or has done something to someone that he can't take back.

I'm all out of wisecracks on this one. Horrific.

monkeyfudge

Apparently he was a 20 year old Pakistani guy who just moved over from England about a month ago and had been living in Killester.

I lived in Killester for a year at one stage... it's really not that bad.

Nala

I read in the paper that they had to bring in counsellors after it happened for customers and staff that saw it, not surprising. Got to say that I think it was very, very selfish of him to do something like this in front of other people and especially children. He was in the Toy dept ffs. And what if the shop had caught fire from him? What if he'd been near the clothing or the magazines (both would burn very quickly) and it set that alight and hurt someone else?

Thrill

If your about to barbeque yourself im sure your not going to worry
about burning down the clothing department. The guy was obviously
deranged. What i would like to know is what made him do it.
He may well have had a mental disorder before he came to Ireland.
Ireland cant be that bad.

monkeyfudge

monkeyfudge wrote:

Apparently he was a 20 year old Pakistani guy who just moved over from England about a month ago and had been living in Killester.

I lived in Killester for a year at one stage... it's really not that bad.

Hah.

Still, this thread is nowhere near as bad as the Egging thread.

smemon

nutcase.

imagine stacking shelves in tesco, thinking what a boring job this is, then a guy walks in and sets himself on fire :rolleyes:

there's easier ways to kill yourself.


this reminds me of 'the hills have eyes'. (film) where a guy is captured by loopers, chained to a pole and set alight in front of his family.

also, in saw 2 i think, one of the guys is trapped in a cremation thing and is burned alive.

in final destination 3, paris hilton & her buddy get trapped in sunbeds and also burn alive.

i'd hate to die that way. the pain would be unbearable and i'd imagine yes, it would be worse being 90% burnt and living than 100% burnt and dead.

Well all I can say is my cousin and my auntie are still really really shook up and horrified over what they seen!

cournioni

Yes!!! I've been waiting all year long to say this word... LOCOOOO!

stovelid

:eek:

Slutmonkey57b wrote:

Not really suicide is a fairly narcissictic act anyway.

delop

Now I hope this is not off topic but.....

I hope Tesco Closed down for the rest of the Day after it happened....