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Man Sets Himself On Fire On National Mall, Near White House
Yesterday it was a shooting at a runaway mom driver that shut down the Capitol area for hours. Today, while there have been no shootings in D.C., moments ago we just got news of a self-immolation in the middle of the National Mall, where a man allegedly doused himself in gasoline and set himself on fire, suffering life-threatening injuries according to the DC Fire Department.
NBC Washington reports that "Passersby on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., ripped off their shirts to help extinguish the flames after a man apparently tried to set himself on fire Friday, witnesses and authorities said. The man was conscious and breathing when he was flown by helicopter to Washington Medical Center, D.C. police said. There was no immediate report on his condition. The incident, which was reported at 4:24 p.m. ET, occurred on Seventh Street Southwest near the National Air and Space Museum, U.S. Park Police said. Witnesses told several media organizations, including NBC Washington, that they saw the man pour gasoline on himself from a red canister and then set himself ablaze. Police said they couldn't confirm those reports. Nearby joggers stopped and ripped off their shirts to smother the flames, NBC Washington reported."
The burned man was promptly carried off the Mall using a helicopter.
A fire official says a man has been flown to the hospital after setting himself on fire on the National Mall.
Fire crews responded Friday afternoon to a report of a man on fire at 7th and Madison streets. A witness says she saw a man dump a red canister of gasoline on his head and then set himself on fire.
D.C. Fire Department spokesman Tim Wilson says the man has life-threatening injuries.
His name and age weren't immediately known.
Sky News confirms:
Man Sets Himself On Fire Near To White House http://t.co/jZiL7fW785
— Sky News (@SkyNews) October 4, 2013
Picture from the National Mall. Helicopter lifting off, efforting more details. pic.twitter.com/hv6pD20swp
— Brian Sasser (@ProducerSass) October 4, 2013
Eyewitness twitter user Hellie Hess reported that "someone just lit himself on fire in the middle of the National Mall "
Holy shit, someone just lit himself on fire in the middle of the National Mall pic.twitter.com/qzGgl9OuUo
— Ellie Hess (@Smellie03) October 4, 2013
Other did too
Just witnessed the craziest thing ever... a man set himself on fire and danced down the Mall. #horrifying
— Vanessa Sink (@LiveMusicGirl) October 4, 2013
BREAKING : U.S. Park Police helicopter is flying out "an individual that attempted to set self on fire at the Mall."
— Myles N. Miller (@myles_nm) October 4, 2013
The man apparently burned himself as an act of protest.
— Myles N. Miller (@myles_nm) October 4, 2013
This happened at 7th St SW & Jefferson Dr, right near the Hirschorn Museum + National Air and Space Museum.
— Myles N. Miller (@myles_nm) October 4, 2013
The man who set himself on fire, was taken to @medstarwhc.
— Myles N. Miller (@myles_nm) October 4, 2013
JUST IN: Man found on fire on the National Mall, D.C. Police Dept. says; male found 'conscious & breathing'
— NBC Nightly News (@nbcnightlynews) October 4, 2013
@brianstelter They are transporting him by helicopter from the Mall now.
— Vanessa Sink (@LiveMusicGirl) October 4, 2013
More from Twitchie:
So a helicopter just landed on the National Mall in Washington, DC. There's a bunch of police cars there too
— Frank Thorp V (@frankthorpNBC) October 4, 2013
Helicopter just landed on National Mall near 7th Street. Fire trucks, police are blocking off area. #GWU
— The GW Hatchet (@GWHatchet) October 4, 2013
Photo by @Stephanie_Gus shared minutes ago shows a helicopter landing on the Mall: http://t.co/cBeax8RFQC
— Mark Berman (@themarkberman) October 4, 2013
The burning man was promptly carried out by helicopter:
And more pictures:
Picture from the National Mall. Helicopter lifting off, efforting more details. pic.twitter.com/hv6pD20swp
— Brian Sasser (@ProducerSass) October 4, 2013
Lifting self immolated individual from the mall pic.twitter.com/xkaTniVELl
— Laura Wernick (@wernick7633) October 4, 2013
DC police and passerby help man who set himself on fire on the Mall this afternoon pic.twitter.com/XTZc6WaaA2
— Vanessa Sink (@LiveMusicGirl) October 4, 2013
Scene on the mall when man set himself on fire. pic.twitter.com/lv4qwRxiKp
— Vanessa Sink (@LiveMusicGirl) October 4, 2013
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Helicopter to transport man who set himself on fire on the Mall today. pic.twitter.com/y6AFts7Qp6
— Vanessa Sink (@LiveMusicGirl) October 4, 2013
So is this the start of the American Spring, er, Fall, or will the ashes be promptly buried under the rug?
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Arab Spring?
american fall.
Double entendre?
His "Reason"?
FIRE QE in action- free fire for everyone! All we need is more people setting themsleves on fire, when enough people have combusted all will be well.
There is also the added benefit that it saves our benevolent overlords some bullets.
It's Bush's fault.
It's Ted Cruz's fault.
It's racist anti-Obama Tea Party members faults.
It's big oil making a statement.
It's the pharm industry denying him the meds he needs.
It's big gasoline's fault.
It's big match manufacturers fault.
It is never Obama's fault. Just remember that fact.
Good thing he didn't have a gun.
Under Holder's control MKUltra is now more of an afrimative action programme so you get what you get. Was supposed to take the AR15 shoot shit up first BEFORE catching fire... and thus leaving no other evidence but Tea Party affiliations and an NRA life membership card. Would have looked perfect on paper.
Hard to get good help.
But, he 'went out for a walk' right into it.
Is the political gravity of the situation creating a black hole near the white house ? The WH is becoming a Zombie Attractor.
JohnGaltFla------
You seem to place blame on everyone to whom it does not belong. Actually the responsibility falls upon the man who self immolated.
I believe in Personal Responsibility. That is something that Republicans seem to have forgotten and Democrats never had believed in the first place.
It seems as if you do not as you have pointed the finger at everybody but the responsible party. This expression of attitude is another reason why I am misanthropic. I hate it in others as I find it detestable in myself.
I don't presume to speak for JohnGaltFla, but it seems to me he was doing a pretty fair job of Going Onion on the fact that from JAN 01 through JAN 09 every squirrel that was accidently run-over by a car somewhere in the world was laid at the feet of Chimpy McBushitlerburtonCo and Darth Cheney.
Two warmongers who should be hanged for treason. Please note that I am a-political and do not worship neither the red nor the blue team.
You didnt burn that ...
The natives are getting restless.
Someone beat me to the Tesla joke. I retreat in shame.
Time for the Western Spring.
what does he do for an encore? buy paper gold?
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Thanks.
Game over america
The tensions are building right across America. Some citizens are resorting to drastic measures to send the government a message of despair. But those politicians are totally detached from the reality and the agony many of their people are feeling.
Not a single word on why he did it. Can you imagine that he didn't have a statement of some kind to make his act worthwhile?
As I said in a post the other day here on ZeroHedge concerning the women who rammed the White House gate and earlier the guy who shot up the Naval Yard.
It's the first cracks in the Fascist Regime. Shit is coming unglued.....the center cannot hold.
Yesterday's victim turned out to be a depressed and crazy woman on psychoactive drugs. Wanna bet this guy was depressed and on similar drugs?
Ya mean a man who sets himself on fire might be depressed? That's just crazy talk!
this is some weird shit going on
seems like each crazy incident just leaves an example for the next crazy person to imitate.
It's like they're mining bad Hollywood movies for bad ideas.
I thought Hollywood already did that .
That's so meta.
+ 29 million USA prescriptions for synthetic opiates per annum.
One out of 11? Sounds about right.
Divide the Annual Number by 12 as most Chronic Pain Patients get them refilled MONTHLY.
Are you really that INNUMERATE??? One Half of a Percent in America are Chronic Pain Patents.
But you have no compassion for that as you probably have no clue what Pain (REAL PAIN) is.
I have Lyme Disease. You know? It was that bug engineered by the US Government at Plum Island, the one that escaped to Lyme, Connetticut, where the first cases developed?
I do not use Narcotics although I did for awhile. I stopped after I broke my ankle on the Weight Bearing Bone. They wanted to cast it, but, I wanted a Splint, so the Hospital REFUSED FIRST AID. They just did not do anything for me.
But do you know that I walked on that Broken Bone until it healed? You must understand that the Broken Bone felt NO DIFFERENT than any other chronic pain which I have.
No I do not use Narcotics. I do not drink Alcohol. I take 3200mg of Ibuprofen Daily and am poisoning my Liver. I live with that type of pain every single SECOND of EVERY SINGLE DAY.
No problem...It only warps my thinking...a little bit.
I think about the threat of some who might be shooting RPGs at Oil Refineries, paralyzing entire Geographical areas through the starvation of Fuel. Or some people maybe shooting them off at landing Passenger Jets at Commercial Airports, or, landing Lear Jets at Regional Airports...the ones that the Wealthy are Passengers in.
There are some that might do that because of the lack of compassion expressed on these and other website comments pages.
There is no problem with that. Right?
You can give this a Thumbs Down if you want but that will not stop or alter my thinking. I think that everyone needs to know just how vunerable the Nation is. Don't you?
There are those on Drugs and those that need to be on Drugs.
But I am not one of them.
SO I REFUSE MEDICAL TREATMENT. That will save some bucks, right?
Half of those are Rush Limbaugh...
+a kabillion
that's the best laugh i've had all day!
"this is some weird shit going on - seems like each crazy incident just leaves an example for the next crazy person to imitate."
Extremely rare events which are inconsequential statistical blips but sensationalist fodder, so they make everyone who doesn't think clearly about that fact say, "The whole country is going crazy. We need more police state apparatus to make us safe."
Immolation is the sincerest form of imitation.
once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can
That is the story of this economy, a bunch of addicts are pushing it as far as they can, Hunter S. Thompson style. (At least Hunter was kind of cool and had some integrity).
Amen Sister.
At least when the Doc did it, it was funny....and had a point to it.
At least, most of the time anyway.
Look the MKUltra program will not be without risks, teething problems and the odd setback. They clearly need MOAR funding to fine tune the psychoactive drugs and triggers to ensure that the 'operatives' stay on the plantation and don't go feral.
Remember its for the children.... Feel better now?
"Yesterday's victim turned out to be a depressed and crazy woman on psychoactive drugs. Wanna bet this guy was depressed and on similar drugs?"
This will be found to be so only if the drug manufacturer has Tea Party and Golden Dawn ties.
Interesting angle....wonder if the reddit crew are working that?
Terrorists take note. Next instead of hijacking planes, paradrop in a few crates of prozac and leave the destruction to us.
And of course you got downmodded to oblivion, by the idiots who can't see the pattern you just pointed out.
Anyone else notice how many crazy asses are suddenly coming out of the woodwork?
Did you think that was an accident?
Folks, they are trying to come after the crazies and lock them up. Crazies like......YOU AND ME....and other people who do such crazy things as, store up food and water, ammunition, folks who are ex military, people who post on political web sites like this and have a healthy disrespect for authority. WE ARE THE CRAZIES they want to lock up!
Notice how they are portraying the Tea Party as a bunch of "anarchists" and "extremists"?
Did you know that the new DSM 5 manual was recently released, which redefines things so vaguely that just about anyone can be accused of a mental illness?
That's not by accident!
Did you know in the old Soviet Union, that's exactly how they came after political dissidents? By calling them crazy, and locking them up?
Ever heard of Brandon Raub?
This is an existential threat to Liberty! Get the word out!
Fucking Coffee in the DSM 5.
Shame you got this post in late in the thread. I've said similar and I feel a lot of folks are missing this.
There's another finer point to this mans act.
It's hard to except, because at its most basic level
....if this was done in defiance to tyranny...
Then there is a man in horrible pain in a burn unit somewhere.
His action mocks me a coward in my inaction.
It's that simple and it pisses me off.
I am as crazy as a Shithouse Mouse. I REFUSE MEDICAL TREATMENT AND DETEST DRUGS. I ENJOY MY PAIN. It has opened up areas of exploration in thinking, where a Norrnal Person will not ever go. It has given me an interesting perspective on life and the absolute lack of value which it has.
And if I do not value my own life then of what value does any other life have?
I have actually learned the reason why the Death Penalty has no deterrent affect. I have looked into the abyss and can see it from that dark side of humanity. I can empathize with those as a kindred soul.
Yes there is much to be written about ahedonism. (NOT A MISSPELLING). It means without pleasure.
Do you want to write about craziness? One must first look in the mirror and then look into the abyss of insanity if one is to truly have any understanding about it.
Most of you will never know as you fail to explore it. I know. It's...it's...it's SCAREY!!!
Look into the mirror and start your journey tonight.
It just seems a bit too tidy to me.
It doesn't matter. The new drug is spontaneous combustion brought about by fraud and injustice. It will be benevolent. It will be beautiful. Let us (those who 'know' what is going on) not let this opportunity get away without taking some fire out of the belly of the beast!
"I don't know what's gonna happen, man, but I wanna have my kicks before the whole shithouse goes up in flames."
We need a national match registration program! For the children!
I propose that match books contain no more than six matches. No one needs a high capacity, pyromanic-style book of 30. And those boxes of 100 wooden strikes are right out. For the children!
"Government is not eloquence, it is not reason, it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant, and a fearful master."
-George Washington
I doubt George Washington could have ever imagined the eventual congruence of his analogy in post-fascist USA.
And, only safety matches...and separate the special striking surface. When in a car the striking surface must be locked and the matches not in the glove compartment.
Peoples homes will be searched to ensure safety is enforced.
Strike-matches will be outlawed as they are too dangerous in public hands.
If you are going to set yourself on fire, take a banker or a politician with you too, don't waste your life like that
It worked for Tibet. Well, sort of. They did get on the cover of a Rage Against the Machine album!
Truly, the highest honor for a political martyr is to be memorialized as a poster for teenage fans of a musical group that claims to be anti-establishment while making its money within the same crass commercial cabal.
Bravo, bravo.
(And I actually like RATM)
Rage Inside the Machine
+1 on the RATM...
Sleep Now In The Fire:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w211KOQ5BMI
Awesome, always a shame these boys cannot make the final transition that the "State" is the problem.
They should read Murray Rothbard :)
Killing Joke "Love Like Blood"... sums up whats coming.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfxKYdjvQ8I
I hate that song but +1 for anyone who knows Killing Joke. I might have to read the words.
Kings and Queens
The Wait
Drug
Those songs probably have nothing to do with the point you are trying to make but I just had to mention them.
Chinese bank ABC: Run On The FED Highlights The Importance Of Gold Reserves
http://koosjansen.blogspot.nl/2013/10/abc-bank-run-on-fed-highlights.html
Nice to see the burning man's 1st Amendment rights were trampled on.
Great theme for next year's Burning Man festival to recognize this 'sacrifice', poor bastard.
Like the first monkey shot into space.
American Fall?
Tunisia.... Here I come baby.
Next thing you'll see is Riots for better or for worse.
FUCK YOU BIG o
FUCK YOU "little" REID
FUCK YOU McLame
FUCK "you've been" Boehner(d)
That's the way the Arab Spring started.
I doubt many people care at this point. There was a guy in New Hampshire who immolated himself a couple years ago over what he said was a rigged court system, it got no press. Another guy (Stack?) flew a small plane into an IRS office building in Texas. It got a little press, but didn't start ANYTHING.
Things will start happening when enough people are mad enough and desperate enough. Cut off SNAP/EBT, all other welfare, and double or triple gas and food prices, then it will be just waiting for a spark. Until then, this is nothing.
Thomas Ball. His name was Thomas Ball.
He needed a bigger plane and better aim.
More on Thomas Ball
http://freekeene.com/2011/06/16/thomas-james-ball-self-immolated-in-protest-of-the-justice-system/
His long but excellent manifesto is here:
http://www.sentinelsource.com/news/local/last-statement-sent-to-sentinel...
Mostly about the government's Orwellian war on men and children, in the name of protecting the children. Also good stuff about the "second set of books" (unchallengeable bureaucratic policies, secret laws, and interpretations of law) which are the real laws applied to the little people. You won't learn this in civics class.
Re; That's the way the Arab Spring started.
Yeah, but the Arab's don't have access to unlimited (near) food at McDonalds.
That's why they hate us for our freedums.
they hate us for our french fries?
"secret" sauce on Big Macs pisses 'em off the most
They hate us for our FREEDOM Fries you pinko commie liberal frenchie.
Greece: Man In Debt Sets Himself On Fire (9/16/11)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/09/16/greece-man-fire-debt_n_966956.html
The relative timing is about right. So we should expect the EU bailout when?
WE MUST BAN GASOLINE, CONTAINERS, AND MATCHES!!!
It's for the children!
No decent person would want any of those things!
Tried to buy a gas can lately?
The new ones have Rube Goldberg like contraptions on the nozzle to "ensure safety".
I predict a booming market in vintage gas cans with regular spouts that are not Darwin Award inductee proof. Check out the gas cans at the hardware store, unbelievable contraptions.
Yes, owning a lawnmower I also own a gas can. And yes, they suck. I would imagine most people just take off the useless nozzle contraption and pour gas out of the can itself, likely spilling much more than they would have with a decent nozzle and completely defeating the purpose of the "anti-spill" design. Your federal government in action as usual.
I suppose we will now have a 7-day waiting period (21 in Kommiefornia) for buying gas cans.
Got a permit for those Assault Gas Cans, Serf?
The 5 gallon nato steel cans were recently selling for $60+. You can no longer legally store gas in them.
Harbor Freight has 5 gallon red steel Gerry cans....made they way God intended. Shocking thing is, unlike damn near everything else in HF, this one is US made. Although...it's made in Chicago instead of China...so...well...you know.
It still comes with the "douche" nozzle you described, but it will perfectly fit GI can surplus noozles.
Edit: identical to NATO ...$35frns
I have some of these 5 gallon cans in red:
http://www.vpracingfuels.com/containers
Heavy duty,empties fast even with the optional spout.
I like Gerry Cans, but with all the ethanol in gas these days, I worry about corrosion in steel cans. You could use Marine Stabil in them (which I do anyway in my plastic cans) to help avoid the corrosion problem.
They WERE manufactured in my state until a DA runner up filed a law suit & won. Not only are they a pain, they're twice the cost. I had a spout break on one of mine. Found a replacement on AMZN that I couldn't find anywhere else.
I believe 5 gal are exempt.
Try these guys or find 'Elisgeneralstorellc' on Ebay...(not affiliated with either)
And so it begins.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BoDPWED-pc
This just in from CNBC...."Obama is walking a LITTLE faster now BACK to the White House." More as we get further details.
Useful idiot (s)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Useful_idiot
Useful idiot (s)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Useful%20idiot
Ah, I was hoping for Alicia Keys...
This guy is on fire?
She has something to do with a black Barry going down?
Does ObummerCare cover self-immolation?
The man, the man, the man is on fire'a,
we don't need no 'bama care let the mutha fucka burn,
burn mother fucka burn.
Good point. If the answer is 'yes' then Actuaries have really fucked up cause this is just the start.
Whocouddanod?
Old Actuarial joke..... Guessing to four decimal places. Tell that to one they really hate it :)
Just awful. Too bad it won't matter to anyone in DC. They will say the guy was sick and deranged, and they'll go about their fucking thieving and self-obsessed ways.
Retarded Buddhists.
Fuck you
Now that you've made me think about it, he probably wasn't a Buddhist, seeing as this is America and whatnot.
But if a black woman hates Obama is she a racist??
Obama!!!!!!! IT'S YOUR FAULT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A LACK OF LEADERSHIP KILLED THIS MAN AND BURNT HIM ALIVE
"If I had a half-brother who got necklaced african-style, he would look just like ___."
Yeah, but he is illegitimate, so...
He’s got that going for him, witch is nice.
It can't be Obama's fault. He told us he wants to help us, that he cares for us.
Right!
All he wants is our worship!
Of course he cares about us. Just because he was born in a foreign land of mixed race doesn't mean he isn't absolutely loyal to Americans who can trace thier heritage in this land for generations.
After all, isn't he a Constitutional scholar? What else do we need to know?
Couldn't have said it better myself. And besides, he wants to move us forward and bring us hope and change.
We should trust him.
One provably forged birth certificate and everyone gets all suspicious.
Bullish for gascans.
What a waste. If you are going to check out at least go hunting for the walking guy.
Boehner, that you?
Burnt Weiner?
That would be Anthony, never mind...
Jeez, you oughta see his tan NOW !!
No way -- he's so wet from crying on himself he wouldn't burn.
ROTFLMAO !!
those aren't tears......
Now that's what I'm talking about, burning yourself up over a closed park.
A Scream Worth $119,922,500
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/scream-worth-119922500
Where were the corporate Pinkerton Thugs to shoot him or run him done?
Self Immolated Man could have been Obama's son.
No shit? This will be an interesting story.
Cut off the stream of government cheese for 4 days, and all this crazy shit happens.
all the frayed loose ends...this is probably going to be a theme going forward in DC.
Of course it's on a Friday , after the close.
/sarc.
Choot 'em! -Troy Landry
Seriously folks, when an anonymous nobody in Tunisia lights himself on fire it's an international sensation and the beginning of the Arab Spring. Perhaps this is the spark of the American Spring? Well, a man can dream...
Not anonymous - Mohammed Bouazizi.
Not being pedantic, just tryin' to help.
Too bad he was not an-anonymous instead of merely non-anonymous.
AnAnonymous has embraced the worst parts of US citizenism, and then added nose picking, roadside shitting, dog wokking, and enslavement of Tibet, which are part and parcel of Chinese citizenism.
It is a non sense at present times.
You have thrusted your US 'american' fist into the cesspool of Chinese citizenism and withdrawn the most fetid and crustiest bits of the mattering things.
Alas, alas, once more alas, upping to the zenith of ananonymystical inablity to self-indict as they are parangongs of hypocritizenism will only lead to eternal consumptionizing of Chinese citizenism misfortune cookie.
+2
Thanks akak.
'AnAnonymystics' are very talented at finding new every thing else because turning to the right thing to do. So it can take time. A lot of.
It is another leap in logics Chinese citizenism citizens are used to. That is the way Chinese citizenism citizens are driven to think in this Chinese Citizenism Communautist Party world order.
No logics here. More the absence of logics, even the most twisted.
Paging Richard Pryor... Richard Pryor, please pickup the white fire-extinguisher. That's Richard Pryor...
What next?
Bouncing Betty's planted in the National Mall?
http://www.php-web-host.com/ckfinder/userfiles/images/dr-evil.jpg
It's National Taco Day, can't we have some peas, I mean peace!!
You didn't see this shit going on when gas was above $4.
You are COLD! +1
He actually looked in Obama's direction from 200 yds out and they hit him with a microwave and cooked him.
Was he black...ened?
Italians and Greeks, now Yanks.
Man, people really don't want Obamacare.
Seriously, if you're going to off yourself, do something that will help the rest of us. Walk into Goldman HQ with an AK-47, for e.g.
I would expect black helicopters surrounding you at any moment with the real possibility of being rendered with comments like this. Good luck you might need it.
Where's Feinstein screaming for gun control over this?
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Where isn't Feinstein screaming for gun control over anything?
Is it 'Bring a Crazy to DC Week'?
Did the Capital Police shoot him, too?
This is how the Arab Spring started, when a man in Tunisia lit himself. Is this a start of something bigger than what it looks to be like right now?