Posted on 12/24/2006 8:46:28 PM PST by Jacob Kell
A 31-year-old man is in critical condition after setting himself ablaze in an apparent protest over a school district's decision to call winter and spring break, Christmas and Easter break. The protester, reportedly draped in a flag, ignited a decorated Christmas tree, an American flag and a revolutionary flag replica that read "Don't Tread on Me" before pouring a can of fuel on himself in front of the Kern County Court Building in Bakersfield, Calif., yesterday afternoon.
The man, whose name was not released, survived, thanks to the quick action of a sheriff's deputy and several court employees.
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Me thinks he had a few other issues.
Build a man a fire, and he will be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he will be warm for the rest of his life.
Thats what happens when you Speak Truth To Power to the Man!!! You get burned!!!
Merry Christmas everybody!! :-)
That would be awesome if leftist pukes started dying for their causes.
The same [or exremely similar in all details] nut has been mentioned on FR another day. They should have just let him burn, preferably on Fire Department training range, and far away from other combustibles.
The founder of the ACLU?
Who ever he is, I'm sure his stupidity will be put to good use by the anti's
He should have come out here to Colorado and done it, we need a good fire to help us keep warm, it's frigid out here.
Liberals are insane. I remember the nutcase who blew his brains out at Ground Zero because Bush won re-election in '04.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire...
Wouldn't it have been easier to move to China or some other atheistic country so he wouldn't have to hear the Words *Christmas* or *Easter*?
Merry Christmas!!!
(Hope no one *meltsdown* over that)
That makes me laugh. My parents (very old) went to Colorado last week to get away from the cold. The weathers been mild here, around 32F (It's normaly around 10f) and crapy there! LOL!
He's just getting a jump start on eternity.
That... plus the free abortions I think all liberals should get... ought to about do the trick.
A true definition of what a yule log is !!!
Another Darwin Award candidate...too bad the fire was put out...now he won't get his award.
Yule time carols being sung by a fire ....
Don't look at me, I don't know anyone who wears a straightjacket! :P
What a lovely reminder of the true meaning of Christmas.
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