Man beheads himself in supermarket ("Clean Up! Aisle 6! Bring a mop!")

Sydney Morning Herald ^ | May 8 2003

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A 31-year-old South African man walked into a supermarket, picked up a power saw and decapitated himself in front of shocked shoppers, police said yesterday.

The incident happened in the port town of Richards Bay on the KwaZulu-Natal north coast.

Eyewitnesses said the man had appeared calm as he marched up to the meat counter, where he switched on a meat saw and placed his head under it.

Staff and shoppers had no time to react.

Superintendent Jay Naicker said the Shoprite Checkers store in Richards Bay had been ready to close on Monday when the man wandered in and headed for the meat department.

"He just walked in, went to the bandsaw machine and switched it on," Naicker told Reuters.

"Apparently he knew what he was doing. He put his neck to the blade and it cut about half way through before he fell to the floor."

Naicker said the man, later identified as 31-year-old Emmanuel Gumbi, was pronounced dead at the scene.

He did not leave a suicide note and according to his family he was not suffering from depression.

DPA

[Tijeras_Slim]

I'm Gumbi dammit!

[JmyBryan]

Maybe it was just a magic trick that went awry.

[Cogadh na Sith]

His body was later found in Ft Marcy Park.

[MeneMeneTekelUpharsin]

That's an experience not soon to be forgotten by excited shoppers...prepared his own Cabeza de Puerco. Oh man...

[TheErnFormerlyKnownAsBig]

Something new for my Safety Audit this month at my Grocery Store.

[It's me]

...man wandered in and headed for the meat department.

Ooohh, bad choice of words!

[Chirodoc]

After many years of effort, this shop owner is finally getting ahead.

[Lazamataz]

according to his family he was not suffering from depression.

Of *course* not. *HAPPY* people do this sort of stuff.

Morons.

[WSGilcrest]

[Tai_Chung]

the Shoprite Checkers store in Richards Bay had been ready to close on Monday when the man wandered in and headed for the meat department.

Did Shoprite Checkers approve overtime for the cleanup crew or did they just wait until Tuesday morning?

[CougarGA7]

Stockboy: "I don't care if it is my responsibility to mop the floors, I aint doing this at no $6.50 per hour."

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Probably a Kroger store. Their produce stinks.

[MHGinTN]

*Happy* people ? Does that mean they're *gay* people? ... With the current influx of *happy* posters on all the homosexual threads, I'm starting to get confused. Laz, this could be series!

[Cachelot]

Gumbi the tool tester has determined that the quality of this power saw is inferior. It stopped halfway through.

[Prince Caspian]

According to family, next-door neighbors, and third grade teachers, people jumping off bridges, cutting off their head in the meat department, and serial killers are some of the most well-adjusted and likeable people on the planet.

[DonQ]

And then there was the sausage maker who backed into his meat grinder and got a little behind in his work.

[BlazingArizona]

See what happens when you make your husband do the scavenger hunt for coupon specials on the way home?

[Thumper1960]

"Did Shoprite Checkers approve overtime for the cleanup crew or did they just wait until Tuesday morning? "

Looks like a cleanup job for the head cashier.