[nicollo]

Surveillance footage of the immediate aftermath of the fire show police officers as they attempt to calm Bruce, who can be heard screaming in the background.

This is how popular culture just renders people stupid: he probably got thousands of likes on FB for threating to burn himself in the name of climate change, and encouragement from "Buddhist monks" --

But he never considered and nobody told him that it actually hurts.

A lot.

More than a lot.

Really, really hurts.

And no one stopped him.

[FalloutShelterGirl]

If he was a real Buddhist monk, he would have controlled his mind and died quietly.

Of course if he was a real Buddhist monk, he also would have incinerated himself over something that mattered.