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Undertoad 09-11-2007 08:19 AM

September 11, 2007: Burning man
 
http://cellar.org/2007/burningman.jpg

Well this is something you don't see all that often, and it's always striking. This 20minutos.es image is accompanied by the following Babelfish-translated text:
Quote:

A man of Rumanian nationality burns after sprinkling itself with gasoline and setting fire to bonzo before the seat of the Subdelegation of the Government in Castellon to protest by the economic situation of his family in Spain.
He set fire to bonzo!

Well one wonders what better economic situation his family will be in now. No word on the outcome of whether he lived or died.

Kumbulu 09-11-2007 08:40 AM

Dontcha just love online translators LOL. :headshake

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Sheldonrs 09-11-2007 08:55 AM

Flamers everywhere. :D

barefoot serpent 09-11-2007 09:26 AM

the whole sequence of images is here.

Coign 09-11-2007 10:30 AM

I don't know who is more of an idiot, the guy who set himself on fire or the person trying to put him out with a child in hand.

http://estaticos02.cache.el-mundo.ne..._albumes_0.jpg

lumberjim 09-11-2007 10:48 AM

the lady in the white t shirt seems very concerned that he's dropped his sandal. she's just going to fetch that for him.

monster 09-11-2007 10:54 AM

Seriously, that's awful. That he should feel so desperate as to do that to himself.

and now back to your regular programming...

...it's bad enough to do that to yourself, but to involve innocent animals is unforgiveable. As I scrolled through the images in barefoot's link, I came across three pictures with these captions. I took the liberty of translating.

Dos guardias civíles se acercan al inmigrante, todavía con llamas en su cuerpo
Two pleasant zookeepers helped the immigrant with the llamas and the carp

Un poicía y dos guardias civiles tratan de apagar las llamas
The fish and the zookeepers politely fought to appear with the llamas

Dos guardias civiles levantan al hombre, con las llamas ya apagadas
The nice keepers levitated over the homo and the llamas applauded

Sundae 09-11-2007 11:09 AM

Bravo monster, but you missed this one:

Las llasmas consumen por completo la camiseta del inmigrante.
The llamas completed consuming the foreign camel

monster 09-11-2007 11:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl (Post 384212)
Bravo monster, but you missed this one:

Las llasmas consumen por completo la camiseta del inmigrante.
The llamas completed consuming the foreign camel

well, that picture gave me the hump

Spexxvet 09-11-2007 11:16 AM

A - I expected to see a celebration in the desert.

2 - How inconsiderate of the guy. We, at the Cellar, will choose our own way of cooking our IotD!

Do you think he had hair when he started?

IV - Who's horny, baby? You want my pants off that bad?"

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monster 09-11-2007 11:24 AM

Liar, liar, pants on fire....

glatt 09-11-2007 11:27 AM

It's interesting how our bodies will revolt against our "higher reasoning" when we are doing stupid shit. His well laid plans for setting himself on fire were halted by his body once it felt the pain. Then all his brain was able to comprehend was "Oh, sweet Jesus, that hurts. Make it stop."

A wiser person would have predicted this and either completely doused themselves from head to toe in gasoline before lighting themselves so the job would be finished even when they had second thoughts. Or else they would have admitted the inevitability of defeat and had a fire extinguisher and some heavy blankets sitting on the curb next to them.

Flint 09-11-2007 12:33 PM

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He set fire to bonzo!


BigV 09-11-2007 01:07 PM

You have to admit, that guy is kinda hot!

Cicero 09-11-2007 01:18 PM

We just experienced a huge burning man here....Zozobra!!! Largest marionette according to the Guiness Book.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=zozobra

I didn't go myself- after looking at video I wish I had.


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