Man beheads self in Virginia

[MrScorpio]

Note: I have never heard of anything like this before.... Ever!

http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2011/08/31/man-beheads-self-in-virginia.html?obref=obnetwork

Man Beheads Self in Virginia

A man in Virginia beheaded himself Tuesday after an apparent domestic dispute with his wife. Police responding to a call about the dispute noticed a burning utility trailer and a white SUV nearby. They also noticed that the driver of the SUV had tied a cable around a tree, run it through the car window, and wrapped it around his neck. When police tried to get him to exit from the vehicle, he accelerated and decapitated himself. "Nobody has ever heard of anything like this," the local sheriff said.

[TwilightGardener]

1. Well...points for creativity. Feel bad for the cops who had to witness that.

[Bake]

Feel bad for the cops????

I feel bad for the driver, who felt life was not worth anything more than a gruesome exit!

I don't feel bad for the cops. Ever.

Bake

[Cid_B]

17. I'll bet you are a real "life of the party" eom

[Bake]

20. As a matter of fact, I am!

But my son has been hassled by the cops too many times over bullshit ... tossed his car because he was young and driving to Bonnaroo.

Pardon me if I have no sympathy for the pigs.

Bake

[Cid_B]

22. It's really weird...

I drove all over the US and Europe as a young person and never had my car "tossed" by police.


Ever think there might be something more to it? Also, sounds like a flaky reason to be devoid of empathy in any case.... That's just me.

[Exultant Democracy]

28. While I will withhold comments on empathy I will say I have been harassed a lot by cops

In one three month period I was pulled over 5 times without reason and my car was tossed 3 of the times. I was also tackled once by a cop during this same time period as I was walking away from my own car under the suspicion that I had just broken into and robbed my own car.

Lets get some facts straight. The first is that I don't speed when I drive due to my concerns about global warming. The second is that I was a young black man driving a bmw (since I switched to a Prius I've been getting pulled over a lot less.)

Even outside of this dark period of three months I was still pulled over once every couple of months.

Just because you have never been harassed by cops doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and it doesn't indicate that the person harassed was doing anything wrong.

[Bake]

30. Then you're not paying attention.

Cops taser an 80+ year old grandmother?

Yeah, I really sympathize....

NOT.

Bake

[msanthrope]

26. And the EMTs/morgue workers and tech people, too.

Responding to the scene of a trauma like that is terrifying and horrible.

[Bake]

31. You've gotta be kinda ghoulish to work in a morgue ...

Just sayin' ..

:hi:

Bake

[hobbit709]

2. That was exceedingly stupid.

[WI_DEM]

3. well, that's pretty gruesome.

[seabeyond]

4. this is the bad, reading du. i am so sad at all the people that are in such pain

or mess in their lives.

[malaise]

5. Good fugging grief

There are no words.

[Fumesucker]

6. Pretty sincere self criticism there..

[krispos42]

7. I clicked this link imaging some sort of tragic chainsaw-juggling accident.

This... actually sounds painless and fast. Gross, but painless and fast.

[hlthe2b]

10. Not really.. not a clean capitation, but a wrenching his head off.

Uggh.

[krispos42]

11. Doubtless it was rough

Unless he was using piano wire or something. But he probably didn't feel a thing.


Hopefully. :-(

[rurallib]

8. really feel sorry for the police and any others who witnessed this.

[RebelOne]

32. If I had witnessed that, I would be having nightmares for years. n/t

[snooper2]

9. The comments at the link are... well...

:P

example-

"Smart & Final !! Guess he got a head start on the police."

"So much for the head of the household."

[soleft]

12. In May, during the week that the world was supposed to end

A 42 year old man went to the end of the fishing pier in the town where I live, tied a rope around his neck and jumped off, decapitating himself. His body was recovered in the surf but they never found his head. It's been a pretty creepy summer on the beach.

I couldn't help but wonder if his suicide was related to the ridiculous prediction. Also, Billy Graham's son was coming into town later that week for a big religious to do.

[TwilightGardener]

14. Ew. I would not want to go wading there. Don't want to be the one to

put my bare foot down on something...ew.

[soleft]

29. I have wondered, is that a horseshoe crab, or....

something else.

[Myrina]

13. Whoa ...

... that's ... wow. :hide:

[Renew Deal]

15. If anybody wondered why cops go bad, this is it.

I don't think there's any way to get this out of someones mind.

[MrScorpio]

16. This is why a lot of them drink too much. nt

[pansypoo53219]

18. let darwin be darwin.

at least he only killed himself. oy. no turning back tho.

[Bonhomme Richard]

19. The man was obviously besides himself. n/t

[InvisibleTouch]

21. I burst out laughing at this, couldn't help it. n/t

[benld74]

23. I'll show her dammit,,,,,,!!!!!

[Octafish]

24. Young British weapons scientist did the same thing a few years back.

Did 22 SDI Researchers really ALL Commit Suicide?

EXCERPT...

Sharif was a 26-year-old computer analyst who worked at the Marconi Defense Systems headquarters in Stanmore, Middlesex. On October 28, 1986, he allegedly drove to a public park not far from where Dajibhai had died. He tied one end of a nylon cord around a tree and tied the other end around his neck. Then he got back into his Audi 80 automatic, stepped on the gas and sped off, decapitating himself.

[JuniperLea]

25. Suicide is creepy anyway...

But this is over the top creepy. I can't imagine... as a kid I couldn't even tie a string to a loose tooth and a door nob.

[sfpcjock]

27. A good old G&S joke from The Mikado, but tough on the cops when you actually do it.