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Man bursts into flames at Sweden train station
MSNBC ^
| 11-22-11
Posted on 11/24/2011 11:33:01 AM PST by DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
GOTHENBURG, Sweden — An unidentified man burst into flames while waiting outside a train station in Sweden, leaving police flummoxed, the Göteborgs-Posten reported.
Witnesses said the man was standing outside a music shop at the Gothenberg central train station around 10:30 p.m. Sunday, when he suddenly caught on fire.
"He just stood there burning outside the shop," a witness told the paper. "After a while he started screaming. There were a few people about but they just watched him. I ran up to him, tore my coat off and managed to put the fire out together with another guy."
The man, who sustained serious injuries, was taken to Gothenburg's Sahlgrenska hospital, where he was sedated.
Police have been at the hospital since the incident trying to piece together what happened.
"All we know is that it's a man. We have no knowledge of his identity, nor of his age or any motive or even the circumstances of the incident," Asa Anderson, a police officer, told the newspaper.
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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: combustion; human; spontaneous; sweden
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To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Better call in the “Fringe” Team
Sounds like something right up their alley
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:39:35 AM PST
by
Popman
(Obama is God's curse upon the land....)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Note to self: Never light up a smoke immediately after doing shots of akvavit.
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:39:41 AM PST
by
RichInOC
(Palin 2012: The Perfect Storm.)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:42:19 AM PST
by
Texas Eagle
(If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis; a fool in paradise
Witnesses said the man was standing outside a music shop... which happened to have on its turntable THIS!
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
spontaneous combustion?
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:42:58 AM PST
by
oldbrowser
(There is a shakeup coming to Washington, one way or another.)
To: WesternCulture
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:43:29 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:47:28 AM PST
by
gunnyg
("A Constitution changed from Freedom, can never be restored; Liberty, once lost, is lost forever...)
To: oldbrowser
Probably named Mohammed, and didn’t quite get the formula right.
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:48:05 AM PST
by
ErnBatavia
(Obama Voters: Jose Baez wants YOU for his next jury pool.......)
To: Popman
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:48:37 AM PST
by
al baby
(Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
To: RichInOC
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:53:35 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Were they filming a sequel to the movie, “Man On Fire”?
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:54:59 AM PST
by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:55:17 AM PST
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The very idea of a community organizer is to stir up a mob for some political purpose." Ann Coulter)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
"There were a few people about but they just watched him." Timothy McQueery immediately placed a call to his father, and is going to drop by Paterno's house in the morning.
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:56:50 AM PST
by
Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
To: Jack Hydrazine
... a very high alcohol content beverage popular in Scandinavia.
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:59:38 AM PST
by
ArmyTeach
(Our liberties we prize and our rights we will maintain ... USS Iowa BB 61)
To: DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
And no one has it on youtube yet?
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posted on
11/24/2011 12:04:48 PM PST
by
al baby
(Is that old windbag still on the air ?)
To: oldbrowser; DeoVindiceSicSemperTyrannis
Also know as "St. Elmo's Fire" which may very well be the same fire from heaven accounted for many times in the Bible.
Lord, touch this man and if he doesn't know you save him now in Jesus name. Amen.
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posted on
11/24/2011 12:18:35 PM PST
by
PapaNew
To: Revolting cat!
Yesss! A young pre-Alice Cooper had to have watched that video and thought “I can do this”.
As a kid I had a “Ripleys Believe it or Not” book that had all kinds of stories about spontaneous human combustion. Kept me up nights...
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posted on
11/24/2011 12:22:56 PM PST
by
bigbob
To: Jack Hydrazine
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posted on
11/24/2011 12:41:25 PM PST
by
skeptoid
(The road to serfdom is being paved by RINO's, and Lisa Murkowski is their mascot.)
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