A life goes up in smoke
Filed Under (Uncategorized) by admin on 28-02-2009
The tragedy of this story…
A 58-year-old Wal-Mart employee who said he “couldn’t take it anymore” lit himself on fire in a parking lot near the Bloomingdale store where he worked late Thursday night and was later pronounced dead at a hospital, authorities said this morning.
…is that nobody had a clue that there was even anything wrong with the guy–not his son, co-worker, boss, nobody. As far as anyone knew everything was A-OK with the burning man. How many millions of people suffer in silence, I wonder?
Strangely enough I just watch The Dead Pool last night where a guy doused himself in lighter fluid and burned himself up in a parking lot. Except in the movie as soon as he went up in flames he was willing to let people try to put him out. I think after you get caught on fire, it’s best probably not to get put out.
