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Man Lights Himself on Fire to Propose
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| Wednesday, 6 July 2005
Posted on 07/08/2005 5:19:13 AM PDT by phoenix_004
To prove his love, a 38-year-old man set himself on fire before getting down on one knee and asking his girlfriend to marry him.
About 100 people gathered to watch Todd Grannis perform the flaming stunt on Monday, which involved wearing a cape soaked in gasoline.
Grannis climbed up a 10-foot scaffold, was set on fire and then plunged into a swimming pool, dousing the blaze. Emerging unscathed, he got down on one knee and proposed, as a friend standing nearby slipped him the engagement ring.
"Honey, you make me hot," he told his sweetheart, Malissa Kusiek. "I hope I'm getting the point across that I'm on fire for you."
Kusiek, who has been dating Grannis for several years, said "yes," but added that she was a little angry because of the danger.
"At first I was mad, because I thought, 'He's not a stuntman,'" Kusiek said. "Then, of course, the tears started flowing. Of course I said yes. I was so thrilled."
Grannis said he came up with the stunt through the help of his friend, professional stuntman Eric Barkey. Barkey pulled out a photo of himself on fire and said, "You could do that," Grannis said.
Grannis met Kusiek, the owner of a local hair salon, when she cut his hair.
"I kept telling her sometime before I'm 50," said Grannis, who co-owns an Internet wholesale company. "She wasn't expecting it. She had no clue."
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: propose
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To: phoenix_004
For some really sick reason, why do I wish it turned out to be more like this? (I hate stupid stunts):
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:23:17 AM PDT
by
Lockbar
(March toward the sound of the guns.)
To: phoenix_004
Crap...this guy is taken? Missed a good one....
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:25:51 AM PDT
by
Fawn
To: phoenix_004
Was it for an old flame or a new one?
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:26:15 AM PDT
by
Lando Lincoln
(How many liberals does it take to win a war?)
To: phoenix_004
Careful, Todd.
Now she'll expect you to do it EVERY anniversary...
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:26:52 AM PDT
by
Izzy Dunne
(Hello, I'm a TAGLINE virus. Please help me spread by copying me into YOUR tag line.)
To: Fawn
Headline should read "Flamer Gets Married." The social conservatives will freak.
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:27:21 AM PDT
by
Callahan
To: phoenix_004
Note to Malissa Kusiek: Just say NO
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:27:35 AM PDT
by
LIConFem
(A fronte praecipitium, a tergo lupi.)
To: Junior
Come on baby light my fire!
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:27:39 AM PDT
by
cjshapi
To: Lando Lincoln
He just had a burning desire???
NeverGore
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:27:54 AM PDT
by
nevergore
(“It could be that the purpose of my life is simply to serve as a warning to others.”)
To: Lockbar
I'd hate to see when she makes him pissed off. Or what he'll do when he says she is full of crap.
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:28:56 AM PDT
by
kx9088
To: phoenix_004
"Honey, you make me hot," he told his sweetheart, Malissa Kusiek. "I hope I'm getting the point across that I'm on fire for you." Well, that's definitely the worst set up to a couple of the worst pick-up lines I've ever seen.
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:36:40 AM PDT
by
Egon
(By the way, I took the liberty of fertilizing your caviar.)
To: phoenix_004
'He's not a stuntman' As he was soaking himself in gasoline, the guy was probably thinking: "Now how can she say no after this!?"
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:40:49 AM PDT
by
silent_jonny
(every time a justice retires an angel gets his wings)
To: kx9088
> I'd hate to see when she makes him pissed off.
She could just fire him.
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:50:07 AM PDT
by
cloud8
To: Fawn
Well, heck - I'll set him on fire and propose to you. Busy this Saturday?
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:53:24 AM PDT
by
Tennessee_Bob
("Nac Mac Feegle! The Wee Free Men! Nae king! Nae quin! Nae laird! We willna be fooled again!")
To: Egon
At least he didn't tell her that he was "a hunka hunka burnin' love."
To: phoenix_004
I fell into a burnin? ring of fire --
I went down, down, down
And the flames went higher,
And it burns, burn, burns,
The ring of fire, the ring of fire.
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:55:11 AM PDT
by
avg_freeper
(Gunga galunga. Gunga, gunga galunga)
To: phoenix_004
To quote Jerry Lee Lewis....."I'm burnin' up like a paper cup.....ooooooooooo, I'm on FIY-AHH....."
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posted on
07/08/2005 5:58:39 AM PDT
by
NRA1995
(West Virginia needs neurosurgeons like San Francisco needs gynecologists)
To: phoenix_004
Just a hunk a hunk o' burnin' love....
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posted on
07/08/2005 6:00:04 AM PDT
by
Cincinatus
(Omnia relinquit servare Republicam)
To: Lando Lincoln
Who says romance is dead?
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posted on
07/08/2005 6:01:34 AM PDT
by
bad company
(Then they say 'I came to the wrong jihad.'")
To: Slings and Arrows
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posted on
07/08/2005 6:03:42 AM PDT
by
glock rocks
(Git er done!)
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