Man Slices Own Head Off in Supermarket Suicide

Reuters ^ | Wed May 7, 2003; 9:17 AM ET | Reuters Staff

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African man died trying to cut his own head off with a butcher's band saw in a major supermarket, police said on Wednesday.

Superintendent Jay Naicker said the Shoprite Checkers store in Richards Bay had been ready to close on Monday when the man wandered in and headed for the meat department. "He just walked in, went to the band saw machine and switched it on," Naicker told Reuters. "Apparently he knew what he was doing. He put his neck to the blade and it cut about half way through before he fell to the floor."

Naicker said the man, later identified as 31-year-old Emmanuel Gumbi, was pronounced dead at the scene.

He said police had turned up no motive for the suicide, which stunned staff and shoppers at the store in northern Kwazulu-Natal province.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Well, there's something you don't see everyday.

[duckman]

Heck of a price to pay for not having triple coupons.

[Luna]

That's disgusting! Didn't he have anything to assist him in offing himself in the privacy of his own home?

[Dog]

OUCH!

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I guess he just lost his head.

[Drew68]

Well, there's something you don't see everyday.

As macabre as this may sound, I have a certain appreciation for people who come up with new and inventive ways to off themselves. I recall reading about a suicide where the dude snuck into a lion's den at a zoo.

It worked!

[b4its2late]

Sorry. Old news.

[Centurion2000]

GUMBI's DEAD .....

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

I can just picture some guy rubbing Porterhouse steak all over himself, then jumping the zoo fence and kicking the biggest sleeping lion.

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

Yeah, it's dated May 7. I did a search on the title and several keywords and didn't find anything, sorry if this is a re-post.

[b4its2late]

It is a repost, I just can't find the darn thing. It's okay though. No apology needed. But if I find it, I'll post a link because I think some of the comments were funny and you'll laugh your head off.... no pun intended (well maybe).

[Excuse_My_Bellicosity]

ROFLMAO!!!!!!!!!!!

[AmericaUnited]

Didn't he know he could be fined for doing that?

[Dog]

LOL!

Hey see how glamorous working in a grocery store can be....we get to see a Darwin Award winner in action.

[tet68]

I had heard about one that used a chain saw.
The one I liked the most was the guy that put the top down
in his convertible, tied 150 feet of rope to a tree and put a loop around his neck and drove off at high speed.

SPROING!

[Drew68]

Yeah, it's dated May 7. I did a search on the title and several keywords and didn't find anything, sorry if this is a re-post.

I do recall reading it here before but I was not motivated enough to go search it out. If you did a search using several keywords, chances are likely that the first thread was pulled.

[Spruce]

How long before the Dems pin this on Bush?

[So Cal Rocket]

Ya know... I thought the ground beef I bought in that store tasted funny.