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Couldn't believe it when I saw that on IOL last night! The thing is, just think how brave you would have to be to do that! Seems to me, once you are that courageous, if you only took a couple of minutes to look around, you would probably have the courage to go on living. Very sad.
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
Megan Forbes wrote: Seems to me, once you are that courageous, if you only took a couple of minutes to look around, you would probably have the courage to go on living. Well, if, as he suspected, a large gang of men were after him, who knows what horrible things they had in store once they caught him? He may have seen this as the only way out... ...yeah, ok, it's still bizarre - i'd have gone with the sleeping pills three counters over.
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No pics, thankfully, and the articles are not particularly graphic. He apparently did not cut his head clean off.
Clones are people two.
He apparently did not cut his head clean off. So his ghost will be like Nearly-headless Nick from the Harry Potter books? :) Those willing to trade liberty for security deserve neither - Benjamin Franklin
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Richards Bay - A man sawed his head off in full view of staff and customers at a grocery store in the northern KwaZulu-Natal province town of Richard's Bay on Monday afternoon, police said. Man cuts off head in shop[^] :omg: Butchery staff traumatised[^] I would freakin' think so. Man cuts off head 'in fear'[^]
Clones are people two.
On a related note, just yesterday a man was seen walking through a small town in Germany, with the head of a young woman in one hand, and a big knife in the other...
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
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On a related note, just yesterday a man was seen walking through a small town in Germany, with the head of a young woman in one hand, and a big knife in the other...
"Der Geist des Kriegers ist erwacht / Ich hab die Macht" StS
sighist | Agile Programming | doxygenClickety[^] "The man said he had been provoked before the deed," the spokesman said... Well, at least he had a good reason. :rolleyes: Mike Mullikin :beer:
"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas..." Emo Phillips
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Couldn't believe it when I saw that on IOL last night! The thing is, just think how brave you would have to be to do that! Seems to me, once you are that courageous, if you only took a couple of minutes to look around, you would probably have the courage to go on living. Very sad.
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
:confused: Brave and courageous aren't the words I would use to describe that kind of behaviour. I've always thought suicide (unless it is in the act of saving others) was rather weak and gutless. Mike Mullikin :beer:
"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas..." Emo Phillips
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Richards Bay - A man sawed his head off in full view of staff and customers at a grocery store in the northern KwaZulu-Natal province town of Richard's Bay on Monday afternoon, police said. Man cuts off head in shop[^] :omg: Butchery staff traumatised[^] I would freakin' think so. Man cuts off head 'in fear'[^]
Clones are people two.
Ow. That's gotta hurt.
Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
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Couldn't believe it when I saw that on IOL last night! The thing is, just think how brave you would have to be to do that! Seems to me, once you are that courageous, if you only took a couple of minutes to look around, you would probably have the courage to go on living. Very sad.
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
Megan Forbes wrote: think how brave you would have to be to do that! That's nothing! I read many years ago in Omni Magazine of a fellow in the UK who committed suicide by applying an electric drill to his skull. The remarkable thing was that, according to police reports, it took him eight tries to get it right!:omg: "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Megan Forbes wrote: think how brave you would have to be to do that! That's nothing! I read many years ago in Omni Magazine of a fellow in the UK who committed suicide by applying an electric drill to his skull. The remarkable thing was that, according to police reports, it took him eight tries to get it right!:omg: "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
Roger Wright wrote: The remarkable thing was that, according to police reports, it took him eight tries to get it right! Surely not! Are we being had? :~
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
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Richards Bay - A man sawed his head off in full view of staff and customers at a grocery store in the northern KwaZulu-Natal province town of Richard's Bay on Monday afternoon, police said. Man cuts off head in shop[^] :omg: Butchery staff traumatised[^] I would freakin' think so. Man cuts off head 'in fear'[^]
Clones are people two.
:wtf: Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Don't worry, there are no photographs. Apparently the man went into the butchery section and used the bansaw they use for slicing meat. I don't think his head came off entirely.
MS le Roux wrote: Don't worry, there are no photographs. Thank God [Or whoever else you want to thank, depending on your religious or other views] for that. Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Ow. That's gotta hurt.
Jason Henderson
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter." - Winston Churchill
Jason Henderson wrote: That's gotta hurt. Just a little. :eek: Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Ah, ok, I had this very Monty-Pythonesque vision of someone using a hacksaw to cut his own head off, which, with hindsight was pretty ridiculous. :-O You wouldn't be able to do as you described in my local supermarket as the cutters are protected by safety guards, but I guess they were more concerned with losing fingers than customers' heads. That is pretty extreme. Debbie
Debs wrote: Ah, ok, I had this very Monty-Pythonesque vision of someone using a hacksaw to cut his own head off, which, with hindsight was pretty ridiculous I actually thought it was a joke at first too... Felt a bit silly after think though. Regards, Brian Dela :-)
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Roger Wright wrote: The remarkable thing was that, according to police reports, it took him eight tries to get it right! Surely not! Are we being had? :~
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
I don't think so - Omni had a really good rep for verifying stories. But that guy must have really wanted to die! One thing the account didn't mention was whether he used a hand drill, or a drill press... I wonder which would be harder to do? "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
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Brad Jennings wrote: Wow, I'll never look at a meat saw the same way again And neither will those poor employees, I'm sure! Time for a career change for them... :(
What prevents people from seeing is the ghost of recollections of the past, in their eyes. - Carl Kyhlberg
Megan Forbes wrote: And neither will those poor employees, I'm sure! Yeah, I really feel for them, I couldn't imaging going through something like that. I couldn't imaging what's going through the minds of the man's family either. Brad Jennings "You're mom is nice. Mind if I go out with her?" - Jörgen Sigvardsson
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:confused: Brave and courageous aren't the words I would use to describe that kind of behaviour. I've always thought suicide (unless it is in the act of saving others) was rather weak and gutless. Mike Mullikin :beer:
"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas..." Emo Phillips
Score 3.0 (3 votes) Well I started out with one '5' vote. So what, has the "pro-suicide" element spoken?? Mike Mullikin :beer:
"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas..." Emo Phillips
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:confused: Brave and courageous aren't the words I would use to describe that kind of behaviour. I've always thought suicide (unless it is in the act of saving others) was rather weak and gutless. Mike Mullikin :beer:
"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas..." Emo Phillips
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gregs wrote: you obviously know nothing about depression You might be surprised. I do know that killing yourself due to depression is neither brave nor courageous. Mike Mullikin :beer:
"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas..." Emo Phillips
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gregs wrote: you obviously know nothing about depression You might be surprised. I do know that killing yourself due to depression is neither brave nor courageous. Mike Mullikin :beer:
"When I wake up in the morning, I just can't get started until I've had that first, piping hot pot of coffee. Oh, I've tried other enemas..." Emo Phillips
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But neither is it weak and gutless. It is that stigma that those of us in the neuroscience community thought we'd seen the back of.:((
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Megan Forbes wrote: think how brave you would have to be to do that! That's nothing! I read many years ago in Omni Magazine of a fellow in the UK who committed suicide by applying an electric drill to his skull. The remarkable thing was that, according to police reports, it took him eight tries to get it right!:omg: "Please don't put cigarette butts in the urinal. It makes them soggy and hard to light" - Sign in a Bullhead City, AZ Restroom
I suspect he was doing trepanation (drilling holes in the skull to aleviate pain in the head), and he made a mistake.