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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:20 AM
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"Spiritual healer" burns woman alive in tub of alcohol - to save her marriage and finances.
Edited on Thu Jul-09-09 12:21 AM by Maru Kitteh
Accidentally.

A tub full of alcohol and candles. Who could have seen that coming.

ETA the link, DUH.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31726873
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Liberal_in_LA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:25 AM
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1. Lesson? flammable liquid + fire + human body don't mix
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Chulanowa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:25 AM
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2. Depends on what's meant by an alcohol bath
If he had her sitting in a tub full of like, alcohol or whiskey or something... That must have been awfully uncomfortable for her.

Odds are it was a dilute that wasn't quite dilute enough or something. Alcohol baths aren't all that uncommon - they're supposed to help joint pain and reduce wear and tear on the skin from hot water.

Sounds like an honest accident to me, based just on what I know of it.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 01:14 AM
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5. I'm pretty sure you can put out a small fire with a bottle of wine.
Any concentration of ethanol/methanol sufficient to go ablaze in a bath ???

The fumes from that kind of mix had to have been a BIG clue.
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rwheeler31 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:27 AM
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3. Stupid and cruel lets watch that. What an awful media
ownership we have.
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 01:24 AM
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6. Perhaps it is a usefull to warning to those who would follow "faith healers." to keep SOME sense
If a chain store like Bath & Body Works burnt a young woman alive in a tub of alcohol, would you approve of the media for covering it?
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greyl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 12:28 AM
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4. Everything happens for a reason. nt
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old mark Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 02:01 AM
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7. The reason here is stupidity, probably.......nt
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 11:28 AM
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10. I doubt her finances are much improved now,either
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CakeGrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 02:36 AM
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8. "Burns Puerto Rican"?
Why not just say, "Woman burned"?

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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 02:55 AM
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9. I thought that was suspect as well. I don't know if the article writer was trying to implly that
Edited on Thu Jul-09-09 02:56 AM by Maru Kitteh
such a thing couldn't happen here?

Only people from "not here" fall for this kind of thing?

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Commie Pinko Dirtbag Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 11:33 AM
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11. Darwin Award. (I can't believe I'm the first to type those words) -nt
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Mrs. Overall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 11:34 AM
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12. Ouch! That's as bad as the guy who fell into the vat of hot chocolate today.
Edited on Thu Jul-09-09 11:38 AM by Mrs. Overall
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Maru Kitteh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 11:41 AM
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14. Death by chocolate? That's too easy.
Insert marshmallow joke.
Insert joke about nuts in your chocolate.
Insert joke about Germans and coconut.

etc.
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Canuckistanian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jul-09-09 11:37 AM
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13. Religion kills
Please help stop religion.
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