Jul 21 2009Guy Huffs Gas, Gets Tasered, Catches Fire
In a tale of spontaneous human combustion, a man who had been huffing gasoline (real Transformers drink it) was tasered by police and went up in a ball of flames. Sweeeeeet.
Police said they were responding to a complaint at a house when (36-year old Ronald) Mitchell ran outside carrying a cigarette lighter and a plastic bottle containing what they believed was fuel.
When he refused to stop running towards them, one officer Tasered him, police said.The man was immediately engulfed in flames, but the officer threw him to the ground and smothered the blaze with his hands, the statement said.
Mitchell was charged with assault to prevent arrest and possession of a sniffing substance.
An 18-year-old woman threw rocks at the officer as he tried to help and he was later treated for a cut on his head and burns to his hands, police said.
Ha, that chick brought rocks to a taser fight, what an idiot. And also, am I gonna get arrested for possession of a sniffing substance for this can of gasoline? Because, sorry coppers, that ain't happening! *glug glug glug glug glug* Transform and 7x7 is 35!
Tasered 'Petrol-Sniffer' Bursts Into Flames [yahoonews]
Thanks to Thumperchica, Justin, Jon, Stephen and Ptentacle, who wanted to roast marshmallows on him.
Reader Comments
1. body massage machine - July 21, 2009 2:16 PM
twat
2. DUuuude - July 21, 2009 2:16 PM
FIRST
3. smtippin - July 21, 2009 2:17 PM
Sahweet. Nice burning man.
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4. Jerry - July 21, 2009 2:19 PM
I'll huff, and I'll puff, and I'll blow myself up.
http://bootelicious.mybrute.com
5. body massage machine - July 21, 2009 2:20 PM
@4
the only thing you are gonna blow is .... ah man, this one is way too easy, just die brutefag...
6. Pew³ - July 21, 2009 2:21 PM
Someone else asking for it. They should have just shot him, then he wouldn't have caught fire and the officer wouldn't have burned his hands trying to put the trash out.
7. Intermino - July 21, 2009 2:22 PM
Pink Floyd <3
8. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - July 21, 2009 2:22 PM
Do you ever get the feeling that people read Geekologie posts and combine them for newsworthy comic effect?
Terminator gets tazered
Boy drinks gasoline to become like transformer...
Hey! I'll huff gas and get zapped!
9. jumpin_j - July 21, 2009 2:23 PM
Best use of a Pink Floyd album cover.
10. Timbo - July 21, 2009 2:26 PM
"Transform and 7x7 is 35!"
hahahaha... I laugh...
11. Pew³ - July 21, 2009 2:28 PM
@8 My mushroom caught fire when searching for it with my lightsaber flashlight. The evil robots thought that was funny so they are throwing a party with blue beer.....
...and I want the novelty eagle head.
12. body massage machine (aka STOMPY) - July 21, 2009 2:30 PM
on one hand i see the po-po using these tasers and wonder what happened to their good ol fashion arse kicking instincts, you are authorized to use physical force, go bag ur self a d-bag
But than again, what kind of low life thinks they can argue with cops? Your not gonna win, ever....
13. Mike Hawk - July 21, 2009 2:34 PM
Some Dude,
Some Dude,
Some Dude is on fire,
We don't need no water,
Let the Mother F@*ker Burn......
14. Pat - July 21, 2009 2:40 PM
@9 Agreed!
15. j - July 21, 2009 2:43 PM
The man in the pic, is that Michael Jackson?
hes such a jerk, he died on my b-day, now every year i have to remember that....
16. Moose FAH-Q "Fücking" gizmonaas \Eyeroll MachineApe Pew22 (aka body massage machine aka STOMPY) - July 21, 2009 2:49 PM
@14
Pat? Patrick Scalisi? Is that you? The one who published in such magazines as Willows, Twisted Dreams and Space Westerns? I was the one who always hanging around Dr. Staples office discussing Shakespeare... don't you remember? You used to call me mercutio? I also met you in Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Conn. while getting an English major. We used to spend hours at the coffee shop in 08 talking about Stephen King’s autobiography/writing guide, On Writing. no? you don't remember me? ahh to hell with you...
http://www.patrickscalisi.com/Anaheim.gif
isn't it fun to make your link your personal home page, i feel like I knows ya already....
17. lala - July 21, 2009 2:54 PM
WOWWWWWWWWW
18. henree - July 21, 2009 2:57 PM
"Transform and 7x7 is 35!"
THANKS JERK... IM AT MY COLLEGE LIBRARY AND LAUGHED REALLY LOUD.
now people think i'm weird.
19. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 2:57 PM
@13
http://www.xnxx.com
20. STOMPY - July 21, 2009 3:05 PM
@19
wow, what an insightful link, really changes how I look at things...
21. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - July 21, 2009 3:05 PM
GFS - you are going to get me fired! I clicked your link, then stopped it, then googled it. If I get fired, I'll blame you.
22. Fyah - July 21, 2009 3:09 PM
Now this is HOT!!!!
http://driftwood-x.mybrute.com
23. Harvey two face - July 21, 2009 3:10 PM
HARVEY TWO FACE ANYONE??
the story just reminded me of that scene in the movie, horrible
24. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 3:12 PM
@Thumper
Sorry. This is what started it. http://www.geekologie.com/2009/07/simple_enough_mario_mushroom_r.php#comment-126899
Were you sleeping earlier today? Don't worry about getting fired, because if you do, you can move in with me. I have a George Forman Grill!
25. STOMPY - July 21, 2009 3:19 PM
wow, I googled a certain poster from this site, all i can say is jewlery, books, golf, wrist tattoos and vibrators, sound like anyone we know?
26. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - July 21, 2009 3:20 PM
@STOMPY
http://ny.milesplit.us/uploads/user_files/3893/porkchop-sandwiches.jpg
27. STOMPY - July 21, 2009 3:23 PM
@GFS
Yaaaaayy!!!!!
28. Michelle - July 21, 2009 3:41 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/07/21/australia.taser.fire/index.html
the guy doused himself with gas ... I still agree drinking it is *much* more impressive.
"Police had received a report that the man and some others were sniffing glue"
Taking a gas bath and running at cops with a lighter = Suicide by Police
29. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - July 21, 2009 3:50 PM
I wasn't sleeping, I was actually working... =)
George Foreman Grill ain't got nothing on my "Set it and forget it" Rotisserie.
30. Twatty McWaffleton (aka Freddy K) - July 21, 2009 4:06 PM
At least the lady was arrested and charged with assault. Whats up with that?
Stupid twat.
31. scurl - July 21, 2009 4:42 PM
this reminds me of an ex-girlfriend of mine. she's the first girl i did anal with, and she'd huff gas like a monster truck. i tell you, "honey hunting" in trailer parks in wisconsin was quite fun when i was 14....also...my life was pretty much "gummo", except i saw what retards all the glue/gas/paint huffing kids were so didn't ruin my gigantic man brain with that stuff. just the 'tussin.
32. G-String Dynamite - July 21, 2009 5:12 PM
;D I like this album <3
33. RK - July 21, 2009 5:22 PM
wow. i sure wish i could have been there to videotape this. that must have been hilarious. I'd definitely have offered to put out the flames with a hammer...
34. Ollie Williams - July 21, 2009 5:27 PM
Did someone say vibrators?
35. Pyjammez - July 21, 2009 10:22 PM
Sounds like an Australian Aboriginal lol... weapon of choice. Rocks and sticks.
36. kelpenhagen - July 21, 2009 10:25 PM
It was on an Aboriginal reservation where there is a massive issue with Aboriginals sniffing petrol - it was actually a pretty tragic event you ignorant twats
37. Daisy - July 21, 2009 11:15 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max got back from a trip and as he was getting home his condo blew up.
38. Carla - July 22, 2009 1:14 AM
ignorance is bliss hey? It was an Australian indigenous person, known as an Aboriginal and its actually pretty effin sad.
39. Danger - July 22, 2009 3:21 AM
I call police stupidity. The cop should have known that the guy would catch fire when using a taser. He really should have used his pistol instead, it would be much safer for both of them.
40. Jaded Icon - July 22, 2009 7:34 AM
@ 40
All the cop suspected at the time was that the guy was running at them with a bottle of fuel and a lighter. I'm sure in that split second decision it did not occur to him that this twatbrain was sniffing it earlier.
@ 36
Grow up hippie.......and get a damn haircut!
41. Danger - July 22, 2009 7:52 AM
Even if he hadn't been huffing, he is holding a bottle of fuel, are you going to shoot him with 10,000 volts of electricity?
42. chang564335 - July 22, 2009 9:17 AM
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43. Ptentacle - July 23, 2009 10:42 AM
Wanted to roast marshmallows? I DID roast marshmallows.
44. princess-layher - July 24, 2009 11:58 PM
petrol sniffing is a series problem in communities across australia.
45. lee harless - August 3, 2009 1:51 AM
Geekologie Writer, can't you IP ban this "Daisy" homo? That line is as old as sex with your ex. ..and just like her old bat cave, It's stinkin' up the joint. ..and we've had to roll past that same post now for longer than her stretched out meat flaps.
Here's a tutorial: http://www.bitrepository.com/advanced-ip-ban-script.html
46. Natty Cuttler - August 26, 2009 11:23 AM
Hey Daisy, this album was released 15 years before Photoshop existed. Two stuntmen were used (Ronnie Rondell and Danny Rogers), one dressed in a fire-retardant suit covered by a business suit. His head was protected by a hood, underneath a wig. The photograph was taken at the Warner Bros. studios in Los Angeles. Initially the wind was blowing in the wrong direction, and the flames were forced into Rondell's face, burning his moustache. The two stuntmen changed positions, and the image was later reversed.