Man Set Himself On Fire Near The White House!

[headbanger_jib]

 

[skjl47]

I'm actually relieved you wouldn't do it for your ex wives for some reason!

Hello; Yes the X in x-wife means to me I do not have anything more to do with them and have not for years. Now if one of their boyfriends from back in the day were on fire and I happened to pass by I would not try to put them out.
Terrible attitude I know. I would not cause it to happen however.

 

[Ogertron3000]

Good point. I dont know which way to go. I can unfortunately see a scenario where some attention/you tube/activist look at me type who's "normal" does something crazy like this. Our media (U.S.) does a great job of whipping up all kinds of hysteria that unfortunately gets lapped up by the masses. They hide behind freedom of the press and arent held responsible for how they report the news regardless if they are completely lying. Though some recent court cases may put an end to this practice.

We have the same issues here the media makes a huge issue out of something then act shocked if someone takes it too seriously and does something crazy in response. We just had an election so everyone has been nice and agitated, now social media is so big people seem to pay more attention to that than established media. I'm suprised so many otherwise intelligent people will tell you something stupid and obviously untrue/exaggerated or twisted and say "I saw it on Facebook".
We have had a few vegan protests here lately, they do a good job of causing disruption, you should see how both sides of the media blow it out of proportion "all farmers are cruel and mistreat animals" and "the protests are funded by terrorists", really it's a bunch of vegetarian students laying down on the road for an hour and nothing to get too excited about either way. Scary thing is , like you said I could easily see one of them taking it too far for social media fame and doing something drastic.

 

[Fat Homer]

not sure what you are saying, I do know she was charged and will serve some kind of punishment, loss of kids I hope. I am ashamed to say I watched the human centipede flicks. just had to see how ridiculous it could get.

Lol, there are plenty of movies that make a human centipede look like nothing...

Sort of reminds me of them Buddhist monks who burned themselves alive to protest against the Vietnam war.
Does anyone know if there was a motivation/reason for this or was it drugs or mental illness? Either way it's a nasty scene, feel sorry for the security and first aid guys that got caught up in it.

I was going to mention that, but i agree, some people have such strong beliefs they will go to the absolute extreme to make their points heard, such as with the monks...

 

[jaws7777]

We have the same issues here the media makes a huge issue out of something then act shocked if someone takes it too seriously and does something crazy in response. We just had an election so everyone has been nice and agitated, now social media is so big people seem to pay more attention to that than established media. I'm suprised so many otherwise intelligent people will tell you something stupid and obviously untrue/exaggerated or twisted and say "I saw it on Facebook".
We have had a few vegan protests here lately, they do a good job of causing disruption, you should see how both sides of the media blow it out of proportion "all farmers are cruel and mistreat animals" and "the protests are funded by terrorists", really it's a bunch of vegetarian students laying down on the road for an hour and nothing to get too excited about either way. Scary thing is , like you said I could easily see one of them taking it too far for social media fame and doing something drastic.

We gad some friends over last night and we were talking about all the college kids protesting (its never ending here)

Imagine turning on the news and seeing our kids taking part in some whacked out campus protests while im shelling put tons of money for his college education... ooooh i kill em lol

 

[LBDave]

I wouldnt be surprised if mental illness was the reason along with the media's constant non stop barrage of b.s. who are very irresponsible imo

Here here!

 

[krichardson]

We gad some friends over last night and we were talking about all the college kids protesting (its never ending here)

Imagine turning on the news and seeing our kids taking part in some whacked out campus protests while im shelling put tons of money for his college education... ooooh i kill em lol

Some of the colleges are behind the protests due to their indoctrination of the students.

 

[jaws7777]

Some of the colleges are behind the protests due to their indoctrination of the students.

Thats why if im footing the bill i pick the school

 

[krichardson]

Thats why if im footing the bill i pick the school

Damn right.Imagine your child going off to college and coming home spewing all kinds of nonsense that is totally opposite the principles you tried to instill in him/her through the years.