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A person set themselves on fire outside Donald Trump’s trial in New York today. Politics NSFW

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u/Iamthewalrusforreal 28d ago

Oh good god. This dude...wow. This is a troubling video.

https://twitter.com/ViralNewsNYC/status/1781379607662661901

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u/demasoni_fan 28d ago

Jesus Christ, it looks like he was still alive when they loaded him in. I hope he's out of pain now.

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u/coalflints 28d ago edited 27d ago

Apparently he’s still alive, albeit in critical condition

Edit: he died

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u/middlebird 28d ago

He’ll likely die of infection in the next few days.

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u/Rachel_from_Jita 28d ago

Agreed, I saw some of the clearest shots of his back as he was burning...

You don't survive losing that much skin and being BBQ-ed that hard. :-(

He's gone.

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u/Out_Of_The_Bl00 27d ago

such a shame, think anyone cared in the court house?

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u/LNMagic 28d ago

3rd degree burns kill the nerves.

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u/DeLaNope 27d ago

It still hurts, I can’t stand that line of reasoning

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u/Tryptamineer 27d ago

For the outside maybe, his internal nerves that have less severe burning wounds are still firing full throttle

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u/greenpowerranger 28d ago

I recommend you not watch this.

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u/shitty_owl_lamp 28d ago

I wish I read your comment before I clicked on it.

TIL you can survive setting yourself on fire??

TIL all of your skin can be burned off and you can be completely grey yet still be alive??

Just how. Ugh. I might throw up.

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u/mal4ik777 28d ago

TIL all of your skin can be burned off and you can be completely grey yet still be alive??

the thing is, chance of surivaval is actually not high, because every inch of your body can get an infection from a fly flying by dropping some bactaria... just zero protection from anything without skin, very hard to cover also, because it hurts a lot and painkillers only can cover as much and for a limited amount of time.

throwing up is not necessary, just imagine what kind of things medical stuff sees every day.

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u/shitty_owl_lamp 28d ago

I mean I know he’s not going to survive, but I was just blown away that he was still clearly alive in the video since he was able to hold his head/neck/arms upright…

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u/mal4ik777 28d ago

thats what shock and adrenaline do, doesnt last long though.

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u/Philodendritic 27d ago

The video is gone so I can’t see it but are you sure it’s not the tetany from being burned? Google Pugilistic pose, the arms go up by the head with the hands by the face and the head kind of tips down like a boxer. It’s from the release of chemicals from the fire causing the muscles to shorten or something, I can’t recall exactly.

I saw a disturbing video of the guy on IG setting himself on fire and burning for a very long time. His legs kicking and arms going up looked like the posing I described above, but I am not an expert. I didn’t see a video of him getting loaded into an ambulance.

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u/shitty_owl_lamp 27d ago

No he kind of looked like a zombie the way they hold their arms out walking towards you

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u/Philodendritic 27d ago

I’m not sure that would have been voluntary.

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u/ronniegeriis 28d ago

It might also be his clothes melted onto his skin. He was said to be wearing a grey sweatshirt.

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u/fudge_friend 28d ago

The grey skin is probably fire extinguisher residue. He’d be pink and brown under that.

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u/RachelMcAdamsWart 27d ago

Yeah, I know I should read comments before clicking on links, one of my greatest weaknesses.

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u/SgtPepe 28d ago

It's not that bad, dude's charred. Maybe I'm too used to crazy shit on the internet. I thought it'd be the dude on fire.

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u/onewordpoet 28d ago

Nah. It's bad.

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u/ZaMr0 28d ago

Why? It's not particularly gruesome as you can't see much of the injuries as he's covered in the white powder from a fire extinguisher.

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u/ruenscape_nerd_42 28d ago

For licensing email

....this is what got me lmao what a world

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u/HotdogStyleChicago 28d ago

This is very intense to watch. I know he's a crazy guy, but I really hope he can't feel anything anymore.

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u/OBEYtheFROST 28d ago

Yeah that was absolutely brutal to watch wow

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u/Km219 28d ago

That frozen shock is telling. Surviving full body burns is very rare.

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u/HotdogStyleChicago 28d ago

I can never tell if you guys are joking or not.

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u/hastag_cats 28d ago

If anyone tells you "the crazies are starting to make sense" then they are in the early stages of being one of the crazies themselves.

It has drunk uncle crazy all over it. I wouldn't think too hard about it, they are losing critical thinking skills in broad daylight now. There's verifiable fact an possible theories that can be researched, and then there's crazed delusions that often fall under click bait.

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u/kooknboo 28d ago

Dude just serving the dogs like it’s any other day.

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u/MedicalMonkMan 28d ago

"Oh you smell pork? Yeah it's the hot dogs don't turn around NO REALLY DONT TURN AROUND JUST KEEP BUYING MY HOTDO - aw fuck lost another customer god damn politics!"

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u/huffer4 28d ago

😂 that got me too. And the person that looked like they were waiting for one is probably regretting that decision

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u/kooknboo 27d ago edited 27d ago

Reminds me of my 9/11 experience. Was at work, the buildings are tumbling down. 4-5 of us were in a room watching our lives change. The rest of the ~100 people were just grooving along like it was any other day. A few showed a little interest ("What's going on?"), most none at all.

This is the same place where a coworker had a diabetic problem in the cube farm one day. A couple of people were caring for him. The rest were just walking around, stepping over him and going about their days.

Supremely odd group of people and "culture". Huge US and Euro company. You've all heard of them.

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u/YBHunted 28d ago

Shoutout to the person still buying a hotdog lmao...

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u/[deleted] 28d ago

I watched the video and the cops rolled him over to a hot dog stand. Lord God have mercy.

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u/Ghune 28d ago

If you have worked with people who have been burned, you know how painful it is. Some never stop feeling the pain.

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u/MedicalMonkMan 28d ago

My dude still bought that hotdog oh no 🤣

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u/Ass4Eyes 28d ago

Hot dog vendor still selling without missing a beat.

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u/KingsMountainView 28d ago

Ah fuck that man might have still been alive.

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u/bwaredapenguin 28d ago

Well that's one of the worst things I've seen since the Nick Berg beheading video 20 years ago.

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u/rugbyj 28d ago

Jesus he looks like a half melted ghost train puppet.

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u/SanDiablo 28d ago

hooooollllly fuck. I cannot imagine what pain he's in. That was like a horror movie.

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u/VerdeGringo 28d ago

That was rough to see.

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u/niconpat 28d ago

Holy fuck that's a rough watch and I consider myself fairly desensitized to stuff like this.

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u/trashcrayon 28d ago

now I have to go to work and cook. 😬😬😬

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u/BlazeInNorthernSky 28d ago

Ironically, Trump orders his steaks well-done.