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Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Fire 'Down Under'

From BBC World News

An Australian man found himself engulfed in flames earlier this month after aggressively storming police officers “with a container of petrol fuel and a cigarette lighter.” Aiming to prevent any sort of arson related attack; officers fired Taser stun guns in defense “penetrating the suspect's skin with over 50,000 volts of electricity from two copper wires attached to the gun.”

Witnesses divulged to police that the suspect was indeed sniffing petroleum at the time of the incident, allowing investigators to determine that remaining deposits of fuel located on the suspect’s face triggered the fire that left him with 3rd degree burns to over ten percent of his body.

The suspect is currently being hospitalized in Western Australia and remains in critical condition despite his close encounter with death. He is being charged with “assault to prevent arrest and possession of [an intoxicating] sniffing substance.”

1 comment:

Inhalant abuse said...

Petrol inhalation is called as intentional inhalation of several volatile chemicals and gases to experience a desired sense of intoxication. Youngsters are doing it more. It is drug abuse. It is very harmful for pregnant women. One should not practice this.