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Report: Woman Catches Fire From Cigarette (at psychiatric day-care center)
clickondetroit.com ^
Posted on 02/27/2004 8:23:19 AM PST by chance33_98
Report: Woman Catches Fire From Cigarette
Victim Pronounced Dead At Detroit Hospital
POSTED: 4:57 pm EST February 26, 2004 UPDATED: 5:13 pm EST February 26, 2004
Authorities say a woman died Thursday afternoon after her clothes apparently caught fire from a cigarette.
Firefighters were called to a psychiatric day-care center at Field Street on Detroit's east side around 3 p.m. where they found the woman on fire sitting outside the center.
She was rushed to Detroit Receiving Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
Officials remained at the scene to investigate.
TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Michigan
KEYWORDS: health; pufflist; smoking
To: chance33_98; *puff_list
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posted on
02/27/2004 8:31:56 AM PST
by
martin_fierro
(Funky Homo Sapien)
To: chance33_98
Spontaneous combustion?
3
posted on
02/27/2004 8:32:31 AM PST
by
El Gran Salseron
(It translates as the Great, Big Salsa Dancer, nothing more. :-))
To: chance33_98
This kind of carp really burns me up.
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posted on
02/27/2004 8:34:11 AM PST
by
steveo
(My dryer is like watching television. It's a show about wet clothes.)
To: chance33_98
darwin award candidate?
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posted on
02/27/2004 8:42:37 AM PST
by
camle
(keep your mind open and somebody will fill it with something for you))
To: chance33_98
As you can see .......
the wife and I dress for smoking.
I suppose that means the shrink won't get paid now
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posted on
02/27/2004 8:43:57 AM PST
by
G.Mason
(The trouble with practical jokes is that very often they get elected -- Will Rogers)
To: El Gran Salseron
Spontaneous combustion?If you think that the flick of a Bic igniting a stick is spontaneous.
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posted on
02/27/2004 8:48:35 AM PST
by
Doctor Stochastic
(Vegetabilisch = chaotisch is der Charakter der Modernen. - Friedrich Schlegel)
To: chance33_98
I believe most people would assume that this woman was a psychiatric patient who committed suicide. Hope they check for accelerants.
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posted on
02/27/2004 9:24:37 AM PST
by
ClearCase_guy
(You can see it coming like a train on a track.)
To: steveo
"This kind of carp really burns me up."
Incendiary fish alert!
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posted on
02/27/2004 9:52:50 AM PST
by
beelzepug
To: chance33_98
I used to work in an in-patient psych hospital, and almost saw this happen once. I was sitting in the dayroom supervising the patients (who were allowed to smoke inside at the time), and I looked over at one of the patient's, who happened to have a cigarette between her fingers. The cigarette had almost burned down to the part that was between her fingers. When I told her to put it in the ashtray, she didn't respond, so I then tried to grab onto the cigarette, but her fingers wouldn't move. She was having a reaction to her anti-psychotic meds which is called a dystonic reaction-the muscles become rigid, but the patient is fully aware of what is going on (they sometimes cannot even talk or move their head). I managed to pry open her fingers, and after a shot of Benadryl, she was able to move OK. It's possible that the patient mentioned in this article did something similar.
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posted on
02/27/2004 10:33:17 AM PST
by
Born Conservative
(Some mornings it just doesn't seem worth it to gnaw through the leather straps.)
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