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Olive Garden cook commits suicide after dunking head into searing hot deep fryer: cops
NYP ^ | 02 05 2026 | Emily Crane

Posted on 02/05/2026 10:48:04 AM PST by yesthatjallen

An Olive Garden cook has died after he dunked his own head into a searing hot deep fryer — as his co-workers frantically tried to thwart his gruesome suicide, authorities said.

The employee, who hasn’t been identified, stripped his clothes off and thrust his face into the fryer at the chain’s restaurant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, last Friday afternoon, the Smoking Gun reported.

“A male victim went head first into the fryers,” dispatchers could be heard saying in grim 911 audio.

“I don’t have a lot of details, lot of people screaming, some kind of a burn victim,” another operator could be heard saying.

The cook was rushed a nearby hospital to be treated for his severe burns, but he later died from his injuries, authorities said.

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TOPICS: Weird Stuff
KEYWORDS: dark; deepfryer; olivegarden; suicide
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1 posted on 02/05/2026 10:48:04 AM PST by yesthatjallen
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Too bad he was such a “hot head.”


2 posted on 02/05/2026 10:49:16 AM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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3 posted on 02/05/2026 10:50:34 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: yesthatjallen

I can think of about a dozen other far less painful methods that are more reliable.


4 posted on 02/05/2026 10:50:50 AM PST by fwdude (Why is there a "far/radical right," but damned if they'll admit that there is a far/radical left)
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5 posted on 02/05/2026 10:51:02 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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To: yesthatjallen

I’d choose a shotgun to head, face first into a deep fryer is something I’d never entertain.


6 posted on 02/05/2026 10:51:23 AM PST by where's_the_Outrage? (Drain the Swamp. Build the Wall)
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To: yesthatjallen

He thought it’d cure his head cold


7 posted on 02/05/2026 10:51:25 AM PST by albie
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To: yesthatjallen

“after” dunking his head?


8 posted on 02/05/2026 10:51:58 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well, I hope at least it was beef tallow and not Canola oil...


9 posted on 02/05/2026 10:52:36 AM PST by Yo-Yo (Is the /Sarc tag really necessary?)
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To: yesthatjallen

Well…no more head lice!


10 posted on 02/05/2026 10:53:03 AM PST by albie
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11 posted on 02/05/2026 10:53:13 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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I hope they changed out the oil after that.


12 posted on 02/05/2026 10:53:37 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I wonder if this was more of a “labor dispute”


13 posted on 02/05/2026 10:53:56 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is opinion or satire. Or both.)
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To: where's_the_Outrage?

Probably drugs involved, is my guess. Sad.


14 posted on 02/05/2026 10:54:20 AM PST by butterdezillion
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Very sad that somebody would be so desperate to kill themselves in any manner, much less something as horrific as this.

His coworkers will never close their eyes again at night without the sounds and smells in their heads.

15 posted on 02/05/2026 10:54:44 AM PST by Joe 6-pack
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To: yesthatjallen

I don’t think this suicide will encourage any Copy-cats.


16 posted on 02/05/2026 10:55:32 AM PST by Gasshog (the amazing disappearing tag)
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17 posted on 02/05/2026 10:55:54 AM PST by Magnum44 (...against all enemies, foreign and domestic... )
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Obviously on some sort of mental health pharmacology. It never fails.


18 posted on 02/05/2026 10:56:10 AM PST by Seruzawa ("The political left is the Garden of Eden of incompetence." -Marx the Smarter (Groucho.))
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To: yesthatjallen

Fried like a bad acid trip, only for real!


19 posted on 02/05/2026 10:56:14 AM PST by chuck allen
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Do you think they changed the oil?


20 posted on 02/05/2026 10:56:44 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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