• Another case of Spontaneous Combustion - Man catches fire in Gothenburg train station
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[release] [IMG]http://www.thelocal.se/articleImages/37466.jpg[/IMG] [B]An unidentified man sustained serious injuries after suddenly catching fire in [URL="http://www.thelocal.se/tag/Gothenburg"]Gothenburg[/URL] on Sunday evening, leaving police flummoxed as to who he is and what really happened. [/B] [B][URL="http://www.thelocal.se/37328/20111113/"]'Vacuum cleaner' behind Swedish nuke plant fire[/URL][/B] (13 Nov 11) [B][URL="http://www.thelocal.se/36914/20111023/"]Fire shuts down Swedish nuclear reactor[/URL][/B] (23 Oct 11) [B][URL="http://www.thelocal.se/36566/20111005/"]Driver found dead after tanker truck inferno[/URL][/B] (5 Oct 11) ”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,” said police officer Åsa Andersson to local paper Göteborgs-Posten (GP) According to eye witness accounts, the man was standing outside a record shop at the central train station around 10.30pm, when he suddenly caught on fire. ”He just stood there burning outside the shop. 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,” a tram driver who had been returning from break, told the paper. The emergency services arrived within minutes, taking the by then seriously injured man to Gothenburg's [URL="http://www.thelocal.se/tag/Sahlgrenska"]Sahlgrenska[/URL] hospital, where he was sedated. The police have been at the hospital to try to piece together what happened, but the patient hasn't been in a condition to be questioned about the incident. ”He is sedated and will probably remain under for another couple of weeks, ” said Andersson to daily Expressen. According to the tram driver the man had said that he was 42-years-old, before he became to badly burnt to speak. At this stage of the investigation, police don't suspecting that foul play lay behind the incident.[/release] [URL]http://www.thelocal.se/37466/20111121/#[/URL] Scary shit
Bystander effect... Keep telling myself to react whenever I can, and maybe it can make a difference some day
flame on!
Wait, he's survived? Is this the first survivor of SHC, presuming it is that? I don't recall any other survivors.
This sorta stuff is always creepy, since we dont even know whats's causing it.
I suppose no one knows his occupation?
Damnit Lister. And now it's raining herring, fuck.
How do we know that something else couldn't have caught him on fire by accident? I highly doubt he just burst into flames for NO REASON.
Spontaneous Combustion scares the shit out of me.
It's probably something simple. Maybe he accidentally dropped his cigarette in a coat pocket without him noticing it, and it ignited the lint, which then ignited the coat. I don't really see the mystery in all this.
[QUOTE=V12US;33392064]It's probably something simple. Maybe he accidentally dropped his cigarette in a coat pocket without him noticing it, and it ignited the lint, which then ignited the coat. I don't really see the mystery in all this.[/QUOTE] Given his injuries I think there's a bit more to it than that.
Hot.
He's pretty lucky. Most of the victims of spontaneous combustion you read about get killed during the incident. From what I remember, the fire is often intense enough to leave little behind in a short space of time.
Also, spontaneous combustion mostly affects the biological body only. Sometimes the clothes or other nearby objects are charred, but those do not catch fire like the human body does. It's quite a strange phenomenon and leaves a haunting impression to those who research about it. Scared me when I read that he was just standing there for a while, not knowing he was literally on fire. It really makes you re-think your life and the world around you; makes me want to talk to the guy that survived
[QUOTE=V12US;33392064]It's probably something simple. Maybe he accidentally dropped his cigarette in a coat pocket without him noticing it, and it ignited the lint, which then ignited the coat. I don't really see the mystery in all this.[/QUOTE] i've got to agree, I don't see it likely that something on the outside of the body(and part of/skin-deep inside) spontaneously caught fire and I don't think you really have any chance of survival if you spontaneously combust from the inside
Couldn't it be something to do with sweat make-up or something , some people's sweat may contain some highly flammable shite , theoretically covering them in petrol.
I read Spontaneous Combustion has something to do with your body's ability to produce extremely rare 'sparks', and also due the fact that your body produces a certain type of gas. There was a tiny bit more on it, but it's been ages since I've read it..
[QUOTE=Haxxer;33391953]Bystander effect... Keep telling myself to react whenever I can, and maybe it can make a difference some day[/QUOTE] To be honest, if I saw a man catch on fire, I wouldn't know what to do. Fire extinguishers say to point at the base of the flame, never at people, but they don't say what to do if the base of the flame is a person
[QUOTE=voltlight;33392598]I read Spontaneous Combustion has something to do with your [B]body's ability to produce extremely rare 'sparks'[/B], and also due the fact that[B] your body produces a certain type of gas[/B]. There was a tiny bit more on it, but it's been ages since I've read it..[/QUOTE] You mean static electricity from the friction with your clothing and the fact that people fart a lot?
[QUOTE=Clavus;33392666]You mean static electricity from the friction with your clothing and the fact that people fart a lot?[/QUOTE] It's all internal.
[QUOTE=Fables;33392083]Given his injuries I think there's a bit more to it than that.[/QUOTE] No not really. The question is how the fire started, not how he got injured. And the answer to that is pretty simple. A heat source ignited some part of his clothing.
Just watch, something else will happen to him later. Nature finishing the job.
I had a book of "unsolved mysteries" that had shit like this in it, burning holes through floors and leaving behind limbs.
[QUOTE=Ignhelper;33391455][release] [IMG]http://www.thelocal.se/articleImages/37466.jpg[/IMG] [B]An unidentified man sustained serious injuries after suddenly catching fire in [URL="http://www.thelocal.se/tag/Gothenburg"]Gothenburg[/URL] on Sunday evening, leaving police flummoxed as to who he is and what really happened. [/B] [B][URL="http://www.thelocal.se/37328/20111113/"]'Vacuum cleaner' behind Swedish nuke plant fire[/URL][/B] (13 Nov 11) [B][URL="http://www.thelocal.se/36914/20111023/"]Fire shuts down Swedish nuclear reactor[/URL][/B] (23 Oct 11) [B][URL="http://www.thelocal.se/36566/20111005/"]Driver found dead after tanker truck inferno[/URL][/B] (5 Oct 11) ”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,” said police officer Åsa Andersson to local paper Göteborgs-Posten (GP) According to eye witness accounts, the man was standing outside a record shop at the central train station around 10.30pm, when he suddenly caught on fire. ”He just stood there burning outside the shop. 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,” a tram driver who had been returning from break, told the paper. The emergency services arrived within minutes, taking the by then seriously injured man to Gothenburg's [URL="http://www.thelocal.se/tag/Sahlgrenska"]Sahlgrenska[/URL] hospital, where he was sedated. The police have been at the hospital to try to piece together what happened, but the patient hasn't been in a condition to be questioned about the incident. ”He is sedated and will probably remain under for another couple of weeks, ” said Andersson to daily Expressen. According to the tram driver the man had said that he was 42-years-old, before he became to badly burnt to speak. At this stage of the investigation, police don't suspecting that foul play lay behind the incident.[/release] [URL]http://www.thelocal.se/37466/20111121/#[/URL] Scary shit[/QUOTE] It's funny, isn't it, how... how your best friend could just... blow up like that. I mean, you wouldn't think it was medically possible, would you? [img]http://www.cardinalfang.net/episodes/season_three/images/mrs_niggerbaiter1.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=sHiBaN;33392460]Also, spontaneous combustion mostly affects the biological body only. Sometimes the clothes or other nearby objects are charred, but those do not catch fire like the human body does. It's quite a strange phenomenon and leaves a haunting impression to those who research about it. S[B]cared me when I read that he was just standing there for a while, not knowing he was literally on fire.[/B] It really makes you re-think your life and the world around you; makes me want to talk to the guy that survived[/QUOTE] The description is vague. We don't know how 'on fire' he was when he finally noticed. If he was lost in thoughts or watching something across the street then it's perfectly possible that his sleeve or coat tails or something not directly touching his skin could've been on fire. He may have simply realised 'Oh shit, my jacket's on fire!', at which point his other clothes had lit up (probably made of some highly flammable material) and he was beyond self-help
Now I'm paranoid I'm going to burst in to flames. I feel like I need a bucket of water near me at all times.
CONSPIRACY So many cases of spontaneous combustion lately, must be an alien plot.
According to wikipedia: [QUOTE=Wikipedia]Roughly 2 dozen people spontaneously combust every hundred years.[/QUOTE]
I'm telling you guys, it's holes in the ozone layer, man! When we fart, the concentrated rays of the sun coming through the hole in the ozone layer set the methane alight! The poor man was probably trying to discreetly leak a bit of gas when [B]WHAM[/B], caught himself on fire.
Pyrokinesis I tell you
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