Posted on 11/09/2021 1:01:29 PM PST by Red Badger
A man reportedly burst into flames as police officers stunned him with a Taser just after he’d doused himself in hand sanitizer, and is now recovering in a burn ward. While this unlikely event is an exceptionally rare accident, it’s not the first time that an electroshock weapon and a flammable liquid have sparked a fire.
The incident occurred when Jason Jones, aged 29, got into a confrontation with officers at the Catskill police station in New York State, the Times Union of Albany reported. Details are thin, but Jones reportedly appeared intoxicated and poured hand sanitizer on himself. In an attempt to subdue him, an officer deployed a Taser, and Jones burst into flames.
Jones is reportedly in a "grave" condition in a burn unit in Syracuse. The police chief confirmed the incident occured, describing it as "horrible," and said it is under investigation by the Greene County district attorney's office.
A fire just needs three elements to burn: oxygen, fuel, and heat. In this recent scenario, the Taser spark provided the heat needed to complete the combustion, while the alcohol acted as a fuel and the air served as the oxidizing agent. By and large, alcohol-based hand sanitizers are perfectly safe and do not pose a fire risk unless they make contact with a direct spark.
There are a handful of documented instances where Tasers have ignited flammable materials, resulting in injuries and even fatalities. A 2017 study by US researchers identified six cases of fatal burns caused by electroshock weapons and four cases of major non-fatal burns out of 3 million uses. A number of moderate and minor burns from electric weapons were also noted. These namely occurred when someone was being arrested with a cigarette lighter in their pocket or they were close to a flammable liquid, such as petrol or recreational inhalants.
Back in 2010, Mythbusters tested out this theory, inspired by an episode of the crime drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation in which a man burst into flames in police custody after being attacked with a stun gun and pepper spray. Not all of the pepper sprays caused combustion when combined with a stun gun, but a few did – causing the test dummy to light up like a match stick – because of flammable propellant or solvent found in the spray.
While this unlikely event is an exceptionally rare accident...
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...like the adverse vaxx reactions which seem to be affecting an extraordinary number of athletes.
Hand sanitizer is actually a very effective fuel for fire.
It won’t melt steel beams but it will get a fire going if you are lost in the woods somewhere and need just that extra to get kindling going.
It can also be used to start a house fire if you do dumb things with it.
I hope he makes a full recovery, and receives a fair trial. And I thank him for the laugh I got from the headline.
This should be the capital punishment for some crimes. Hand sanitizer is cheap.
I can just imagine the using one anywhere near Biden could ignite exotic gasses.
You should look up the carsandwater YouTube channel, home of the Red Hot Nickel Ball. He destroys a lot of things with it, and I’m sure hand sanitizer is in there somewhere.
You should look up the carsandwater YouTube channel, home of the Red Hot Nickel Ball. He destroys a lot of things with it, and I’m sure hand sanitizer is in there somewhere.
You should look up the carsandwater YouTube channel, home of the Red Hot Nickel Ball. He destroys a lot of things with it, and I’m sure hand sanitizer is in there somewhere.
Man this headline made me chuckle. Imagine being so afraid of covid that you regularly bathe yourself in hand sanitizer, to the point of being combustible. I might be burned alive, but at least covid’s not getting me!
A better more truthful headline would be “man tased by police bursts into flames due to being doused with hand sanitizer.
I suspect a big time law suit coming against the police. I’ll bet there is a long line of ambulance chasers lined up outside his hospital room.
I hope the Lord forgives me, but I laughed my ass off when I read this story!
You Laugh, You Lose
Investigators have determined it was a clean shot.
No, he burst into flames due to being covered in hand sanitizer.
...true,but....but...but...was he wearing his mask...??!!
Wow, what a loaded headline!
Main question is: why is the dude doused in sanitizer?
Really scared of COVID? Gone insane over COVID hysteria!
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