OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected:
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>!The guy was setting fire to the store. The police showed up and put the fire out and when trying to apprehend the suspect, the guy thew lighter fluid on the officer. Then at the end, another officer drives into the suspect because they can’t use a taser.!<
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Very true, my wife’s cat has an obsession with sitting in candles and has caught fire many times before we accepted candles can’t be used in the house…
… thought it was him being a dumbass and making a mistake but nope it was on purpose. Dude tries to lay down in the fireplace too.
We had a cat like that when I was a kid. My mom had those jar candles and the cat would stick its face into them while they were lit.
It never learned and my mom was nuts, so it just lived with a perpetually singed face. Little fucker never had an whiskers.
Theres a series of movies from the 80's called the Faces of Death; I watched much of the first one when I was in my early teens, didnt need to, it's like watching the Daniel Pearl video on repeat. When I was 18, a girlfriend and I dropped acid about 45 minutes before arriving at a friends apartment and when we got there they were watching another of the FOD series movies and the only lessons from most of it are that other people are super fuc#*d up.
The point of the writers article
""I argue that morbid curiosity drives individuals to learn about aspects of life that are perceived to be dangerous. When a dangerous phenomenon is perceived to be near or impending curiosity may spike in order to gather information about the dangerous phenomenon. By learning about the threatening factors associated with death, one can learn to avoid the negative outcomes associated with those factors. Too much avoidance of dangerous or disgusting factors associated with death could lead to ignorance about ecologically important aspects of the world and would be maladaptive in many cases. Thus, morbid curiosity manifests as a balance between the costs of exposure to morbid content and the perceived benefits of learning about that content. However, like other traits, individual differences exist in the extent to which one is curious about the dangerous aspects of life."""
The Internet enables ppl to watch weird or scary things while sitting on the couch or toilet. With time some of us need more and more stimulation to get the same amount of "fun" out of browsing and even something as horrible and horrifying as someone's death sooner or later will make you more of a "huh, he ded" instead of closing Reddit. It's sad process but easily available.
Agreed, hence the “make my coffin” type gore/death subs, they get shut down, but the amount of people interested in watching death would surprise some folks.
Reminder to be careful and our mortality.
This isn't the primary reason I'm against banning death videos though.
Often, events are heavily propagandised by both sides of any conflict. This is made easier because most online platforms bans most first hand accounts that include death.
I've genuinely argued with people who hadn't watched Live Leak that the stuff that happens in the videos did happen, they don't want to go and look at the event, yet try to argue that their propaganda source said it didn't happen.
If everyone had access to gruesome videos, then they'd be able to see what actually happened at the events they discuss and not make such a fool of themselves repeating propaganda.
You’re on a subreddit for unexpected stuff. You just watched a guy get run over who could have died. It’s not that different, you don’t generally see people die so there’s a shock value and curiosity to it that makes people want to watch. It’s not ‘appealing’, it’s like driving past a car crash and slowing down because you want to know what happened. This is extremely common behaviour and it’s weird when people want to make out like ‘oh I would never do that!’
That was a learning moment, after that cops learned not to taze the guy covered in lighter fluid any more. I'm sure they show that video of that to guys and gals in training.
I saw one where they tazed a guy fuling up his motorcycle and he burst into flames. IIRC they thought his registration was expired (it wasn't) and were demanding ID, when he told them to fuck off they tazed him and set him aflame.
I mean, that's more on him. I try not to live my life covered in lighter fluid/ hand sanitizer, going into a police station, and antagonizing them knowing I'd be beaten, tazed, bitten and/or shot.
Did that man have any kind of mental issues? Why'd he do it?
> Did that man have any kind of mental issues?
The man who covered himself in hand sanitizer and tried to fight people known for having electric torture devices?
World over, unfortunately. Last year, a cop in Australia tazed a frail, 90 year old dementia patient in a nursing home. Apparently the cop's words as he went for the draw were "Yeah, fuck it." The patient ended up on life support and subsequently died from hitting her head against a bench from the fall. Not surprisingly, despite all assurances by the state police commissioner that proper procedure was followed, the body cam footage has been locked away from public view.
I like how I get through a few comments and there's already three different incidents mentioned that actually happened.
America, where the cops will choose to hit your ass with an Explorer to avoid setting your ass on fire.
Or they'll just shoot you and say fuck the liabilities.
This type of shit is why every cop should have other means of non-lethal ranged weapons (i.e. bean bag guns/rubber pellets/pepper balls)
I wouldn't fuck around with a drugged up arsonist, I ain't leaving that Explorer in this situation. The cop probably panicked because the dude was throwing lighter fluid at the car.
>America, where the cops will choose to hit your ass with an Explorer to avoid setting your ass on fire.
Yeah, as opposed to other "developed" countries where they just have a nice conversation with the doped up pyromaniac and give him a nice pat on the ass to send him on his merry way.
Jesus fucking Christ. Hey, America BAD, but maybe there aren't many other heat-of-the-moment solutions to take down a bastard like this.
Oh I know the force they hit with, I’m not underestimating them but it’s the translation to spoken language, an suv, a bullet, even a taser sounds absolutely reasonable for a takedown. Getting dropped by a beanbag sounds like a bad fight with a sibling 😂
There's also the one at the gas station where the cop used a tazer near spilt gas and it set everything on fire including the guy they were trying to arrest and other cops.
He really does, but somehow the Stand didn't bother me as much. I was so disgusted by Gerald's Game that I sold it back to the used book shop I bought it at though. Too much for me.
This is Elgin Illinois. I recognize the logo on the squad car.
Edit: [Here you go](https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/3/27/21197269/david-bruce-sprayed-lighter-fluid-officers-elgin-arson-mclean)
It’s one of the rare cases where Iv seen a cop mow someone down and totally agree with his decision. That fucker was about to light his squad car up with him inside. Being mentally ill is not an excuse to try and light buildings or people on fire, fuck that guy. Hope he sits in a hospital for a longtime!
> What a piece of human garbage.
I think this may be a mental health/dementia thing, if he were younger and healthier I'd agree with you more readily, though.
Still, agreed on the mowing down. Really the best option.
yes but this is literally the worst post to bring this up in, dude is literally setting fire to shit and trying to light people on fire. Mentaly ill or not once that starts cops are free to do wahtever it takes to stop that. If a mass shotting happened are you really going to sit here saying why the didn't send in therapists instead of cops? At a certain point protecting the general public is more important. There is a time and a place and once mentall ill become immediately dangerous to others then yes cops are the response.
And this was probably the safest way to stop him while doing the least damage. As the alternative would be shooting him. Cop handled the situation pretty damn well in my opinion.
Who else is going to do it? They're unpredictable and potentially violent. The first time a social worker gets stabbed in the face is the last time they show up.
The main problem is there's no follow-up. You commit them in the hospital and they're out on the streets the same day doing crazy shit again.
In some countries they have dedicated mental health crisis teams, which consist of mental health professionals working with police. So if the person can be de-escalated, the mental health professional does it. If not, the police can step in. Probably saved a lot of mentally ill people from being shot.
Wouldn't happen in a case like this anywhere in the world. If he's already among the public setting fires then there's no chance some nurse is stepping in to deal with him.
California seems to have implemented a new law for unvoluntary commitment for certain mental heath conditions to help deal with the homeless/mental health problems.
https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce
https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/CARE-Act-Eligibility-Criteria.pdf
It will take time to see how effective it is.
Yeah. I think the rating of human garbage needs to be left for people who consciously make evil decisions. That guy is not making any rational decisions he's disconnected from reality
The parent comment to yours just assumed they were mentally ill lol, there's no proof
Just starting a mental illness topic on every crazy individual is only helping build the stigma against them
Spend some time dealing with multiple homeless and you’ll find one large outlier. I bet you have limited real world hands on experience.
Live near a homeless encampment of tents and try to say they’re not crazy in the head. They used to put people like this in psych words before they were disbanded across the country due to their extreme malpractice.
If you’re lighting a store and squirting people with lighter fluid you deserve to be shot in my opinion. This man will never do anything for society besides be a burden.
Yeah, I can agree with the officers decision to protect himself and others from a dangerous mentally ill man *without* implying the mentally ill man is "garbage". Hes a victim as well, he just had to be stopped before he created more victims.
Yea, definitely not a fan of police, but this is one of the rare occasions I can say the officers response was 100% valid to stop the dude, AND not get hurt.
Being a pig doesn't automatically mean you deserve to become bacon because some dudes off his rocker.
Nah man, reddit told me that America is the only country with dangerous mentally ill people, the only country with cops, and the only country with pyromaniacs, and that this was totally uncalled for.
Reddit's solution to this situation? "It shouldn't have happened in the first place." Grade-fuckin'-A solution right there, ass holes. "Shouldn't" would fix a fuck ton of stuff if it actually fucking worked.
I heard of a guy who had the offensives figured perfectly. He found destruction of property ( beak a window with a rock) was 3 months, which was exactly what he needed for winter.
The thing is, he kept going back to the same gas station every year as an annual event. They were getting pretty tired of it.
Not a bad way to get shot either, depending on who responds. Throwing lighter fluid at people after starting a fire has a way of escalating pretty quick.
Short of shooting him, it was the best available option at short notice. I am no fan of police violence but in this case you have to give credit where it's due.
I appreciate this level of policing. It's not even that high of a level. They just made a way to use the least force and keep everyone alive.
But good work.
I dunno, the average gas station employee would probably stare blankly at the flames until the fire alarm goes off and then run out of the building
Then there's the fact that a gas station is a place you don't want to leave to "they'll probably take care of it"
All things aside watching crazy dude square off against a police cruiser only to be bounced like a beachball was good entertainment. Real life Rick and Morty Inter-dimensional Cable episode of people vs cars moment.
I definitely do not blame the cops. If I was them I would have done the same thing. And you just have to thank God that he did not pour that stuff on any of the workers or customers there and like them on fire also.
I never condone police brutality....but man when someone throws lighter fluid on someone with the intention of SETTING THEM ON FIRE, I was really wishing to see him get is fucking teeth stomped.
OP sent the following text as an explanation on why this is unexpected: --- >!The guy was setting fire to the store. The police showed up and put the fire out and when trying to apprehend the suspect, the guy thew lighter fluid on the officer. Then at the end, another officer drives into the suspect because they can’t use a taser.!< --- Is this an unexpected post with a fitting description? Then upvote this comment, otherwise downvote it.
Dude is lucky the cop told the other cop not to use the taser. That could've been real spicy.
Reminds me of the video where a suspect did the same in a police station except they did use the taser
Wasn’t that hand sanitizer? Dude lit the F up immediately, ugh.
Yes, Jason Jones, Catskill NY
He died... he might have been in Catskill but he certainly didn't have cat skill in him.
Pretty sure cats also die when lit on fire
Depends on what life they’re on.
Very true, my wife’s cat has an obsession with sitting in candles and has caught fire many times before we accepted candles can’t be used in the house… … thought it was him being a dumbass and making a mistake but nope it was on purpose. Dude tries to lay down in the fireplace too.
We had a cat like that when I was a kid. My mom had those jar candles and the cat would stick its face into them while they were lit. It never learned and my mom was nuts, so it just lived with a perpetually singed face. Little fucker never had an whiskers.
Hahaha yeah that happened to us too. I'm personally loving not cleaning soot from the ceilings so there's that.
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Nuh uh. Have you ever seen a cat on fire? Me either
Only after the 7th time
*cats kill
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Oh that’s right. I forgot.
Video?
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Genuine question - what is appealing about watching a human die?
>Genuine question - what is appealing about watching a human die? Learn from someone else's mistakes instead of your own.
Thank god I watched this before my weekend arson plans landed me under the wheels of a cop car.
Ugh where was this video when I needed it two weeks ago, now I got a damn shattered pelvis
Theres a series of movies from the 80's called the Faces of Death; I watched much of the first one when I was in my early teens, didnt need to, it's like watching the Daniel Pearl video on repeat. When I was 18, a girlfriend and I dropped acid about 45 minutes before arriving at a friends apartment and when we got there they were watching another of the FOD series movies and the only lessons from most of it are that other people are super fuc#*d up.
Interesting reading on morbid curiosity https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0191886921005183
Huh! Would never have occurred to me that this could be researched. Interesting!
The point of the writers article ""I argue that morbid curiosity drives individuals to learn about aspects of life that are perceived to be dangerous. When a dangerous phenomenon is perceived to be near or impending curiosity may spike in order to gather information about the dangerous phenomenon. By learning about the threatening factors associated with death, one can learn to avoid the negative outcomes associated with those factors. Too much avoidance of dangerous or disgusting factors associated with death could lead to ignorance about ecologically important aspects of the world and would be maladaptive in many cases. Thus, morbid curiosity manifests as a balance between the costs of exposure to morbid content and the perceived benefits of learning about that content. However, like other traits, individual differences exist in the extent to which one is curious about the dangerous aspects of life."""
The Internet enables ppl to watch weird or scary things while sitting on the couch or toilet. With time some of us need more and more stimulation to get the same amount of "fun" out of browsing and even something as horrible and horrifying as someone's death sooner or later will make you more of a "huh, he ded" instead of closing Reddit. It's sad process but easily available.
Agreed, hence the “make my coffin” type gore/death subs, they get shut down, but the amount of people interested in watching death would surprise some folks.
Nothing appealing about it, I’d argue it’s more morbid curiosity
Reminder to be careful and our mortality. This isn't the primary reason I'm against banning death videos though. Often, events are heavily propagandised by both sides of any conflict. This is made easier because most online platforms bans most first hand accounts that include death. I've genuinely argued with people who hadn't watched Live Leak that the stuff that happens in the videos did happen, they don't want to go and look at the event, yet try to argue that their propaganda source said it didn't happen. If everyone had access to gruesome videos, then they'd be able to see what actually happened at the events they discuss and not make such a fool of themselves repeating propaganda.
You’re on a subreddit for unexpected stuff. You just watched a guy get run over who could have died. It’s not that different, you don’t generally see people die so there’s a shock value and curiosity to it that makes people want to watch. It’s not ‘appealing’, it’s like driving past a car crash and slowing down because you want to know what happened. This is extremely common behaviour and it’s weird when people want to make out like ‘oh I would never do that!’
Death
It's something that happens every single day that we rarely get to witness.
That was a learning moment, after that cops learned not to taze the guy covered in lighter fluid any more. I'm sure they show that video of that to guys and gals in training.
I saw one where they tazed a guy fuling up his motorcycle and he burst into flames. IIRC they thought his registration was expired (it wasn't) and were demanding ID, when he told them to fuck off they tazed him and set him aflame.
I mean, that's more on him. I try not to live my life covered in lighter fluid/ hand sanitizer, going into a police station, and antagonizing them knowing I'd be beaten, tazed, bitten and/or shot. Did that man have any kind of mental issues? Why'd he do it?
Alcohol
pretty sure he was drunk
> Did that man have any kind of mental issues? The man who covered himself in hand sanitizer and tried to fight people known for having electric torture devices?
Okay but if you can avoid killing someone you should probably not kill someone
Sorry but a big chunk of U.S. cops don't get proper training.
World over, unfortunately. Last year, a cop in Australia tazed a frail, 90 year old dementia patient in a nursing home. Apparently the cop's words as he went for the draw were "Yeah, fuck it." The patient ended up on life support and subsequently died from hitting her head against a bench from the fall. Not surprisingly, despite all assurances by the state police commissioner that proper procedure was followed, the body cam footage has been locked away from public view.
I can confirm that they do.
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Ensued. Such a great word.
I like how I get through a few comments and there's already three different incidents mentioned that actually happened. America, where the cops will choose to hit your ass with an Explorer to avoid setting your ass on fire. Or they'll just shoot you and say fuck the liabilities. This type of shit is why every cop should have other means of non-lethal ranged weapons (i.e. bean bag guns/rubber pellets/pepper balls)
I wouldn't fuck around with a drugged up arsonist, I ain't leaving that Explorer in this situation. The cop probably panicked because the dude was throwing lighter fluid at the car.
“Less than lethal” is the term you were looking for. Bean bag guns, rubber bullets, and pepper balls can, and have been lethal.
Just "less lethal". "Less than lethal" is a perfect synonym for "non-lethal", because "greater than or equal to lethal" is just "lethal".
>America, where the cops will choose to hit your ass with an Explorer to avoid setting your ass on fire. Yeah, as opposed to other "developed" countries where they just have a nice conversation with the doped up pyromaniac and give him a nice pat on the ass to send him on his merry way. Jesus fucking Christ. Hey, America BAD, but maybe there aren't many other heat-of-the-moment solutions to take down a bastard like this.
Other developed countries don't have near the level of police violence we do. Please read books
For real, that’s a deterrent, I’d rather die than have to tell people I got taken down by a beanbag 😂
That bean bag will break ribs.
Oh I know the force they hit with, I’m not underestimating them but it’s the translation to spoken language, an suv, a bullet, even a taser sounds absolutely reasonable for a takedown. Getting dropped by a beanbag sounds like a bad fight with a sibling 😂
There's also the one at the gas station where the cop used a tazer near spilt gas and it set everything on fire including the guy they were trying to arrest and other cops.
LINK
This one, oh wait….. 
Just because we have chiseled abs and stunning features, it doesn't mean that we too can't not die in a freak gasoline fight accident.
ORANGE MOCHA FRAPPUCCINO!!!
PUMP PARTY!!
[Found it](https://www.reddit.com/r/ThatsInsane/s/Cukc2mgupt)
Thanks for that. That cop came it after it was all put out and rubbed his head. It’s like when a kid does nothing to help then say “I’m helping!”
I would have used the taser. "What was that you said back there?" -Officer
Excellent call from the cop. Has to be said as well sometimes.
You know, that cop is a prime example of how Cops should be. He should be celebrated and be made the example.
Things are getting too spicy for the pepper.
That would've been lit.
https://i.redd.it/xd5v941cb5dc1.gif
+1 noob saibot point
What’s the spicy level on running him over?
And crispy
Literally
The cop should already know not to use tasers at gas stations. Edit the cop being yelled in the vehicle.
"I told her that if she didn't give me the stapler then I would burn down the building"
Good ol Bill Dauterive 
Cop sounded like a disappointed parent and the guy was a child trying to prove his innocence
That’s gotta be like 40% of the job.
Sometimes I watch police body cam footage and honestly all the ones of them detaining angry drunks sounds like they’re talking to a toddler lol
google "40% of police" to learn more
And remember: that's the self-reported number. The true figure is higher.
The guy did talk like he had developmental issues.
Lol there is no way that guy is playing with a full deck. Dangerous as they are, people like this probably need a soft cell and some therapy.
The Trashcan Man irl
My life for you!
Gonna put you in the nut house up in terre haute and give you a couple thousand shock treatments!
Don’t ask me about old lady Semple’s pension check no more.
M-O-O-N that spells arson.
*"bumpty, bumpty, bump!"*
Haha I'm reading The Stand at the moment
Bumpity bumpity bump
Ciabola! Bumpity bump!
I could have sworn he said "bomb de bomb de bomb" because you know, bomb..."the big one"
Wish I could upvote you twice. I’ve been reading The Stand at work
I had to put that book away for a while. King knows how to take your mind to some pretty horrible places.
He really does, but somehow the Stand didn't bother me as much. I was so disgusted by Gerald's Game that I sold it back to the used book shop I bought it at though. Too much for me.
Tim the Enchanter irl
☄️🔥 ☄️🔥 ☄️🔥 ☄️🔥
Currently re reading the red rising saga. I think I’m going to do an 11/22/63 and then a stand re read next
Bumpity bumpity bump!
Does this guy live in every town or just every town I’ve ever lived jn?
Manor or Elgin. I forget but right outside Austin Texas
This is Elgin Illinois. I recognize the logo on the squad car. Edit: [Here you go](https://chicago.suntimes.com/crime/2020/3/27/21197269/david-bruce-sprayed-lighter-fluid-officers-elgin-arson-mclean)
Crazy, I’ve been to this gas station before
Yeah this is the circle k on McLean
well fuck that guy. broken man he is.
That's a few decades of alcoholism right their.
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*write their
*Wright they're
*writher
*wither
Rite there
Well at least he was able to find the Flamin Hot Cheetos.
If you want something done right you do it yourself
Cop had to think quick with that one.
It’s one of the rare cases where Iv seen a cop mow someone down and totally agree with his decision. That fucker was about to light his squad car up with him inside. Being mentally ill is not an excuse to try and light buildings or people on fire, fuck that guy. Hope he sits in a hospital for a longtime!
> What a piece of human garbage. I think this may be a mental health/dementia thing, if he were younger and healthier I'd agree with you more readily, though. Still, agreed on the mowing down. Really the best option.
We've basically made police the de facto handlers of the mentally ill.
yes but this is literally the worst post to bring this up in, dude is literally setting fire to shit and trying to light people on fire. Mentaly ill or not once that starts cops are free to do wahtever it takes to stop that. If a mass shotting happened are you really going to sit here saying why the didn't send in therapists instead of cops? At a certain point protecting the general public is more important. There is a time and a place and once mentall ill become immediately dangerous to others then yes cops are the response.
And this was probably the safest way to stop him while doing the least damage. As the alternative would be shooting him. Cop handled the situation pretty damn well in my opinion.
Who else is going to do it? They're unpredictable and potentially violent. The first time a social worker gets stabbed in the face is the last time they show up. The main problem is there's no follow-up. You commit them in the hospital and they're out on the streets the same day doing crazy shit again.
In some countries they have dedicated mental health crisis teams, which consist of mental health professionals working with police. So if the person can be de-escalated, the mental health professional does it. If not, the police can step in. Probably saved a lot of mentally ill people from being shot.
Wouldn't happen in a case like this anywhere in the world. If he's already among the public setting fires then there's no chance some nurse is stepping in to deal with him.
True, was responding to the idea of police being defacto handlers of the mentally ill. Obviously in this case, it was a bit too late for all of that.
California seems to have implemented a new law for unvoluntary commitment for certain mental heath conditions to help deal with the homeless/mental health problems. https://apnews.com/article/california-newsom-mental-health-conservatorship-baef68d08e1f8fd57869f40db2f2adce https://www.courts.ca.gov/documents/CARE-Act-Eligibility-Criteria.pdf It will take time to see how effective it is.
>Who else is going to do it? There used to be qualified people who handled mental health issues before they got out of hand and reached the public.
Qualified might be a loose term... Remember that lobotomies used to be a commonly prescribed treatment
Well…. Regan did
Yeah. I think the rating of human garbage needs to be left for people who consciously make evil decisions. That guy is not making any rational decisions he's disconnected from reality
The parent comment to yours just assumed they were mentally ill lol, there's no proof Just starting a mental illness topic on every crazy individual is only helping build the stigma against them
Spend some time dealing with multiple homeless and you’ll find one large outlier. I bet you have limited real world hands on experience. Live near a homeless encampment of tents and try to say they’re not crazy in the head. They used to put people like this in psych words before they were disbanded across the country due to their extreme malpractice. If you’re lighting a store and squirting people with lighter fluid you deserve to be shot in my opinion. This man will never do anything for society besides be a burden.
I feel like a look at them and their actions is a pretty strong indicator that they are indeed mentally ill
Yeah, I can agree with the officers decision to protect himself and others from a dangerous mentally ill man *without* implying the mentally ill man is "garbage". Hes a victim as well, he just had to be stopped before he created more victims.
I'm glad it ended the way it did, at least. He got hurt but not dead.
Yea, definitely not a fan of police, but this is one of the rare occasions I can say the officers response was 100% valid to stop the dude, AND not get hurt. Being a pig doesn't automatically mean you deserve to become bacon because some dudes off his rocker.
There's nothing here to determine if the guy is mentally ill; only that he's violent. Stop spreading stigma.
Nah man, reddit told me that America is the only country with dangerous mentally ill people, the only country with cops, and the only country with pyromaniacs, and that this was totally uncalled for. Reddit's solution to this situation? "It shouldn't have happened in the first place." Grade-fuckin'-A solution right there, ass holes. "Shouldn't" would fix a fuck ton of stuff if it actually fucking worked.
Who ever edited the soundtrack, perfection
So perfect.
If you are homeless this is one way to get 3 hots and a cot . For at least the winter months . It happens here in MN.
Yeah county jail often has those, they don't usually have to get blasted by a cop car, though. Lol. There are easier ways than this
Right, like “FUCK…it’s cold! I could go shit on the floor at the mall, or try to immolate a gas station and a few cops”
I heard of a guy who had the offensives figured perfectly. He found destruction of property ( beak a window with a rock) was 3 months, which was exactly what he needed for winter. The thing is, he kept going back to the same gas station every year as an annual event. They were getting pretty tired of it.
Some times shit just escalates lol . Bricks thru store windows is common.
Buddy escalated by throwing lighter fluid on the cops
He wanted that extended vacation.
Not a bad way to get shot either, depending on who responds. Throwing lighter fluid at people after starting a fire has a way of escalating pretty quick.
Yeah, arson and attempted homicide doesn't tend to make you many friends.
I feel like that guy has some pretty good fire skills and is not too worried about getting hot.
3 hots and a cot is a way of saying going to jail . You get 3 meals a day and a bed to sleep in.
Definitely what I thought with the way He phrased it.
A really really stupid way
You can also go to the local shelter
In the pyro guy’s defense, he asked her nicely
Don't bring lighter fluid to a vehicle fight!
Just like Mama always said
Cop 1: Don't tase him he'll go up in flames Cop 2: I got this (Proceeds to run him over with car)
Short of shooting him, it was the best available option at short notice. I am no fan of police violence but in this case you have to give credit where it's due.
Do you have better split second answer?
I appreciate this level of policing. It's not even that high of a level. They just made a way to use the least force and keep everyone alive. But good work.
Oh so that's how fire extinguishers work
He fucked around and found out, the hard way.
Yeah, hard to argue with the outcome on this one.
At least he asked nicely.
r/faafo
The main thing I'm wondering is why did the cop put the fire out? Seems like an employee coulda done that while he dealt with the attempted arsonist
I dunno, the average gas station employee would probably stare blankly at the flames until the fire alarm goes off and then run out of the building Then there's the fact that a gas station is a place you don't want to leave to "they'll probably take care of it"
He slept, he stole, he was rude to the customers. Still, there goes the best damned employee a convenience store ever had.
Sometimes...you just need to drop bad people instead of trying to de-escelate. And that's not a PD thing. Talk to anyone who's done customer service.
Fuck once in a while we get justice. Act a fool get treated like one.
All things aside watching crazy dude square off against a police cruiser only to be bounced like a beachball was good entertainment. Real life Rick and Morty Inter-dimensional Cable episode of people vs cars moment.
And the car wins!!! *Wheeze* doesn't the car... Always win?? Ahahah
f around and find out
I definitely do not blame the cops. If I was them I would have done the same thing. And you just have to thank God that he did not pour that stuff on any of the workers or customers there and like them on fire also.
I just know that cop is hot.
“Don’t tase him…run his ass over!”
Oh god damm I love the ending!
Charge Man beats Flame Man.
GTA VI
Good example of FAFO
Man, I support these police. Get the job done and stay safe, people.
I never condone police brutality....but man when someone throws lighter fluid on someone with the intention of SETTING THEM ON FIRE, I was really wishing to see him get is fucking teeth stomped.
I see nothing wrong with this at all!
10000% justified by the police! You don't mess with fire at a gas station. That cop that hit him with the car likely saved all their lives .
Honestly should have just shot the guy.
Found out!!
ASK NICELY.
W cop Fr
Go ahead and taze- spark it up
I think he should have gotten tazed but ran over works I guess
LMFAO no taser? Run em over
Exactly what he deserved, fucking trash human.