Human fireball story forgotten already!
Well, records are being set left, right and centre today. Less than a couple of hours ago I reported on the police giving a lighter and cigarette to a suicidal man covered in kerosene in Nagoya, reaching new heights of ineptitude. I predicted that the media would drop the story within a few days but I didn’t realise it would just be under 24 hours from the initial event happening (and it then took a while to be reported) and it being deemed not important enough to be shown on any of the front pages of the Japanese online news sites. Looks like a man who robbed a convenience store and then went straight to the police and repented is much more important than this event.
Forget about the police facilitating suicides, Japan. Your government is in full control. You are free to do as we tell you…
Finally, it was funny to see that the police have been unable to determine whether the man was trying to kill himself or whether it was just an accident. Hmmm… to the layman or anyone who dabbles in psychology, it might seem that a person that douses themselves in kerosene and gets out a lighter trying to kill themselves before arrest, who refuses to change their clothes after arrest and then asks the police for a lighter and cigarettes during interrogation might want to kill themselves. But I’m sure the police know what they are doing. Just a thought, can you imagine a conversation when this guy returned home from work to his wife/parents:
Wife/mother: “Welcome home. How was work today?”
Policeman: “So so… not too eventful really. I did give a pack of cigarettes and a lighter to a man who was covered in kerosene and who then proceeded to set himself on fire and kill himself in the police station. Apart from that nothing of note”
Wife/mother: “…”
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