Posted on 07/11/2009 8:19:04 PM PDT by 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...
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Well, the secret item is a kitchen match.
“Cab driver. Beheading. muslim?”
That’s what I figure... reckon that makes me a racist, huh?
“Real men of genius...”
You too?
And this works inside a car? I doubt it. You’re going to have to be more detailed than that if you wan’t me to believe you.
Quickly..
“You too?”
Gotta have a hobby. Mine is profiling based on demographics and past behavior. Some people call it racism, others call it self-preservation. Of course, the ones who call it racism will probably die before me and you.
Anybody who says “you can’t judge a book by it’s cover” never read, “An Inconvenient Truth”.
“Gotta have a hobby. Mine is profiling based on demographics and past behavior.”
To paraphrase Ann Coulter, when profiling is 100% accurate it’s called “a description of the suspect.” :-)
If it weren’t inside a car, a paper match would do.
Dirty moslems.
Hadn’t thought about that.
I believe that he did it in the kitchen of his mother’s restaurant.
Long wire tied around the neck, other end run out the window and tied to some stationary object such as a concrete pillar. Or loop the middle of the wire around neck & tie both ends to the pillar. Stomp on the gas... A bit like a wire cheese slicer only more horsepower. Could be other ways I guess.
Sometime after Fargo (the movie) came out, a guy committed suicide by throwing himself into a wood chipper. (here in AZ)
Isadora Duncan syndrome
He must have used a Toledo Salamanca.
Right?
In London, the men who drive the black cabs are extremely knowledgeable about London’s complex maze of streets. They take a rigorous examination on the street geography. Most of them are so good they could find any street in Greater London long before the advent of GPSs. But of course there are frauds who also drive black cabs and don’t take an exam, aren’t licensed, and aren’t knowledgeable.
So when someone is referred to as a black cab driver, it doesn’t refer to his race.
Theory: Tie one end of the rope to a lamp post, and the other end to your neck. Get in the cab and floor it.
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