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DEAD - for the Price of Petrol
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Just a warning to you guys.
One of my Mum's friends at works son died today.
He died when his sister sold her car to someone and he decided he'd remove most of the petrol from the car before handing it over to the buyer.
The car exploded and he was burnt over 95% of his body before finally dying in great pain.
If any of you ever think about doing the same thing in the future don't bother - petrol is expensive but it ain't worth the risk.
One of my Mum's friends at works son died today.
He died when his sister sold her car to someone and he decided he'd remove most of the petrol from the car before handing it over to the buyer.
The car exploded and he was burnt over 95% of his body before finally dying in great pain.
If any of you ever think about doing the same thing in the future don't bother - petrol is expensive but it ain't worth the risk.
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oh well, r.i.p
No not all the petrol - just most of it.
You stick a hose pipe in the tank where you normally fill petrol and suck and the fuel flows out - he was going to try and put it into a container and then into another car - he was going to leave the buyer a little amount of petrol - the same way almost all car dealers do when they selly ou a car - there's usually about 15 miles worth of petrol in new cars - enough to get to a petrol station.
A lot of times when car mechanics do weldig jobs on cars if the work is near the fuel tank they won't touch it cos there's too much risk.
Also there's some dumb laws on petrol tanks about having to be made frommetal I think - when there's now materials which are probabaly better, don't rust and don't conduct electricity (and hence a spark). The laws made sense at the time but new technology means they're potentially out dated.
The guy was about 29.
We've had a few nasty deaths where I live. A man aged 23 committed suicide by jumping in front of a fast moving lorry, and my boyfriend's brother hung himself a week ago
I think it's so selffish to commit suicide by involving another person.
The Lorry driver's life must be ruined.
If I was him I'd probabaly have nightmares evey night and probabaly would never drive again!!
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definatly, i wanted to say that but i would hav got called 'insensitive'
it is selfish to involve another person, but its unavoidable, someones gonna find your body whatever you do, people will hav to identify you too in some circumstances, but i suppose you dont really care when your that low
well he obviously wasn't the brightest bulb on the christmas tree.
it was obviously dangerous. any normal person would just have charged the buyer £20 extra for the full tank of petrol.
I've syphoned petrol loads of times. When I was younger we used to nick all the petrol and diesel out the farm vehicles near my house. Obviously there is a risk as this case shows but generally it's not a dangerous thing to do.
The practise of withdrawing petrol like this is probabaly done 1,000's of time a day all over the world by people fixing cars, etc - this guy obviously got unlucky and didn't know what he was doing.
A typical example of the Darwin Awards is like the Bee Keeper who wanted to avoid being stung so he put a plastic bag over his head and suffocated!!
That's what my first thoughts were; "How the heck does this poor driver feel?"
I'd be scarred for life. And yeah it is selfish, fair enough if you want to be stupid and end your life, but don't involve other people for FUCK's sake!
A mate of mine commited suiside by foing that.
I feel sorry for the driver that he hit (he jumped of a motor way bridge) it was the second time that had happened to him apparently.
He said he could see the driver's face and he was totally distraught.
I think when people are so distraught they're going to kill themselves they just want to do it in the quickest way possible?
It always does somehow though, my dad commited suicide in his car by gasing himself. He was all alone, but some guy walking his dog in the morning found him. That probably has stuck with him for life too
I know, my life would be ruined if I ever discovered a dead body. I pray I don't. But I mean, when people use another person to kill themselves. No matter how rediculous the idea of it is, the poor person always thinks they're to blame for the twat's death.
Mr_Wobble
I think that's a little harsh - ok I admit it does upset other people, but these people who are killing themselves, they're people who've been driven to the edge - they see no other option in life than killing themselves; and not for any good purpose. Many or most of you might see them as pathetic twats.. but I feel sorry for them. After all they are just a normal human being like you and I and it could easily be one of us when we're at a really low point.
I know you'd probably say they should have more consideration but I don't think they can help it. Many of you ahve come on ehre ranting saying "I don't give a fuck if this is in the wrong forum but..." - well times that upset x100 and then it's "I don't give a fuck if me killing myself upsets someone else" but nevertheless I don't have a go at that person.
that's just my point of view anyway - just because someone can't take it anymore doesn't make them a twat.
i'm tempted to disagree with you, to a point.
i'm speaking as someone who's been suicidal many, many times.
i sympathise with people who kill themselves in certain circumstances. say if you found out you had AIDS or terminal cancer, and were going to die a horrible death, and you could just get it over and done with. or if you were living in a war zone or something.
but people who kill themselves cause they are a bit depressed, or they got bullied at school. just strikes me as, i don't know, ungrateful.
Indeed. Smoking a fag maybe?
Or mobile phone.
Both of which if you had a bit of a brain you'd not do.
There must have been an ignition source.
but its not the circumstances that brought them to it- its how they dealt with it. everyone knows some things effect/affect
Just for me, I feel sorry for them. Unless of course they are feeling guilty for doing something evil and hang themselves or something, as people do sometimes
People are usually more than "a bit depressed" when they commit suicide.
Course you can. Like it or not it's an inherently selfish and uncaring act to take your own life.
I agree with that, its fucks people up for years to come
People miserable to the point where they try to kill themselves are selfish for the misery they are going to cause the person/people who cared for them and anyone else they may get involved through their killing themselves.
The relatives or what not are selfish for expecting someone who doesn't want to live anymore to continue living just because they can't lose them.
Both sides are selfish, but people are, so boo hoo.
oh yeah check the sig, i'm sure it fits in here somewhere
usually. but not always.
i've spent near on 7 years in the mental health system, and you'd be amazed how many people (especially teenagers) attempt suicide as some kind of sign of 'cool'. and an awful lot of people attempt it to make someone feel guilty. sadly, a lot of these attempts work.
aside from that it's usually the moderately depressed people who kill themselves. the severely depressed are either insitutionalised, or of no sound mind to get out of bed, let alone plan their own death.