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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-age-police-appeal-metropolitan-a8111901.html
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Police are appealing for information on the blaze that killed 70-year-old John Nolan, a retired construction worker originally from Ireland.

Emergency services were called to reports of a “man ablaze” near his home in Haringey on 17 September.
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members of the public tried to put the fire out and alerted police but the flames were not extinguished until firefighters arrived on the scene.

Mr Nolan was taken to a specialist hospital by air ambulance but died of severe burns, with an inquest due to open in March.

The London Fire Brigade investigated the cause of the fire but found no evidence of an “accelerant” that would have spread the flames.
 
... there are actual cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion... this sounds like one of them.

I really wish there was scientific study of this phenomenon. And no, I've not suddenly imported a tin foil hat, there's at least one case where there was a hole in the floor from the fire, but the surroundings, and the man's walker, were mostly intact. :shrug:
 
One can light themselves on fire without an accellerant. If the lack of that alone is the reason theyre so mindblown, theyre dumb.
 
... there are actual cases of Spontaneous Human Combustion... this sounds like one of them.

I really wish there was scientific study of this phenomenon. And no, I've not suddenly imported a tin foil hat, there's at least one case where there was a hole in the floor from the fire, but the surroundings, and the man's walker, were mostly intact. :shrug:

Here’s a YouTube documentary on Spontaneous Human Combustion I came across:

 
SHC isnt spontaneous internal combustion. From what I’ve read, the victims are usually alcoholics who are smokers. They pass out with a lit cigarette, their clothes & bedsheets catch on fire— which they don’t notice being unconscious— and then their body fat acts as a slow burning wick. It smolders which is why little else is burnt. Although I’ve heard the greasy smoke is a bitch to clean off the ceiling.
 
70-year-old John Nolan, a retired construction worker originally from Ireland.
i have 2 plausible scenarios.
1. He's Irish so years of drinking finally turn the plasma in his body into 80 proof rye whiskey and he lit a cigarette.
2. He was on his cell phone to his wife who called him to ask if he really like the way her new girdle made her ass look, and he responded, my god strike me dead I love the way your butt looks. Irish Catholic God doesn't fuck around....

oh wait one more, he walked under a giant magnifying glass during mid day.
 
I don’t get it.

No one saw him spontaneously catch on fire. No witnesses said he magically exploded in flames while walking to the mailbox.

They only saw him once he was burning. It literally says “we don’t know how it started”.

He was just outside his house.

Wouldn’t logic say he caught on fire inside and then ran out looking for help?

Dude was wearing something flammable.

I mean, sorry to take the fun away, but the article is ridiculous. Talk about the Independent trying to use a catchy title for click bait....
 
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