Posted on 07/01/2015 12:31:00 AM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
A woman killed when a pensioner deliberately set himself on fire aboard a moving bullet train in Japan was on her way to a shrine to give thanks for her "peaceful life", it emerged on Wednesday.
Yoshiko Kuwahara died after 71-year-old Haruo Hayashizaki doused himself in fuel and sparked the blaze on the busy 300km-per-hour train.
"Today I'm visiting Ise shrine to give thanks for my calm, peaceful life," 52-year-old Kuwahara wrote on her Facebook page on Tuesday morning as she boarded the super-fast Nozomi bullet train at Yokohama.
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Rotten luck. Poor lady. RIP.
It takes a genuine narcissist to set himself of fire in a crowded train.
My wife asked me this morning why he couldn’t just light himself up at home in the yard and leave everyone else alone. I told her I agreed it was a selfish, stupid act on the guys part, but there are selfish, stupid people in the world - you just have to try to avoid’em as much as possible.
Will Moonbeam’s bullet train be Bring Your Own Gas Can or will the gas cans be provided as you board?
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