Posted on 06/23/2017 5:10:28 AM PDT by bgill
San Antonio Police Department Detective Richard Richardson said police found a receipt for lighter fluid on the body. The purchase was made this morning. He said the man apparently lit himself on fire, jumped off the bridge with a rope around his neck and then fell. "Everything melted," he said. "It's gonna be a while before we ID him." Khiari Brown and Michael Ray, two employees of an AC and heating company, said they were driving down Thousand Oaks when they saw a man on fire climbing over the bridge's railing. "We seen him on this side, halfway on fire just scootin' down, and then... you know," Ray said. The two drove down to the bed of the quarry and found the man dead, burning on the ground.
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Poor man must have been tormented. Hanging and fire.
How did the receipt not “melt”?!
It happened in the morning. Maybe the sun hadn’t come up yet and it was still cold?
Pitiful and gruesome. Either a lot of self hatred or one heck of a lot of hatred for some somebody who will know he blames them for driving him to this. Either way, he was leaving nothing to chance.
>>Pitiful and gruesome. Either a lot of self hatred or one heck of a lot of hatred for some somebody who will know he blames them for driving him to this. Either way, he was leaving nothing to chance.<<
I am thinking maybe some sort of severe mental illness. Maybe he thought he needed to cleanse himself from some sort of demonic possession? Something like that.
"We seen him on this side, halfway on fire just scootin' down, and then... you know,"
They’re not from Pittsburgh, or they’s have said he was “just scootin’ down ‘nat.”
In his car?
Triple redundancy to make sure.
Cause of death?
Plus he fell . Ouch. If he wasn’t already dead, that would have hurt, it also could be the cause of death.
“Everything melted,”
Darn those polyester pants and rayon shirts.
Hah ha.
This is TX. It felt like 90 degrees before the sun even came up today.
They said they found the receipt on his body. Must be a typo or his pockets were fireproof.
Yup ... y’gut me, there.
Yinz talk funny ‘nat.
My uncle din't marry an insect.
Some of my favorite relatives are a semi-literate contraction with negative connotations. Aints.
Was it Henry Waxman?
Zee ting it went *poof*.
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