Cab Driver Cuts His Own Head Off In Suicide

Skynews.com ^ | 7:11pm UK, Saturday July 11, 2009 | Skynews.com

[Gordon Greene]

A taxi driver has decapitated himself in his black cab in what appears to have been a gruesome suicide.

Police are treating the man's death as "non-suspicious"

The man, believed to be in his 30s, died in Southwark, southeast London, on Friday.

His body was found by police slumped in the car.

Police are treating the driver's death as suicide and are trying to trace his next of kin.

Officers were called at 12.40am to the horrific scene in Great Suffolk Street, where the car had crashed into a pillar.

A spokesman for the Metropolitan Police said: "Officers attended and the driver was found dead inside the vehicle.

"The death is being treated as non-suspicious."

Officers are keen to determine if the dead man was a genuine black-cab driver.

:: The Samaritans said anybody who has been affected by the incident or is feeling distressed or suicidal can contact its helpline...

[Gordon Greene]

Come on, now... I don't know if this dude was Muslim or not but...

And why were police slumping in the car???

Crazy, crazy.

[Marie2]

How on earth can anyone do this without a guillotine-like device?

[TheBlueMax]

This sounds just like a Chicago suicide!!

[tet68]

All it takes is a rope.
Happened before.

[Blood of Tyrants]

The same way certain Clinton associates shot themselves in the back of the head with a shotgun.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Chain saw?

[scott7278]

How do you cut your own head off?

[mamelukesabre]

Huh?

You mind telling me how you cut your own head off in the back of a car with a rope?

[doc1019]

Yep, eight shots to the head … worse case of suicide ever seen by local police.

Give me a break, self-decapitation … no way.

[BallyBill]

They can’t tell if he was a genuine Black cab driver? Wow, this PC thing is getting Nutz.

[machogirl]

chain saw. happened in phx some years ago.

[Gordon Greene]

Most likely scenario I could think of. Or maybe heavy fishing line.

Or a toothpick and a bottle of marshmallow cream.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Not sure you’d really want to know....

[Clock King]

It’s London, and the police are keeping their mouths shut for whatever reasons.

[mamelukesabre]

course I do

[Gordon Greene]

“They can’t tell if he was a genuine Black cab driver? Wow, this PC thing is getting Nutz.”

Don’t want none of them faky black cab drivers... only the real thing for them Londoners.

[null and void]

Cab driver. Beheading. muslim?

[HiTech RedNeck]

Only thing, that would be rather difficult to swing in the confines of a car.

[BallyBill]

I thought the same thing. I remember it happening before.

[scott7278]

Good grief.