View Full Version : Student in Denver sets himself on fire in school cafeteria



GoOKC1991
01-27-2014, 12:31 PM
Wow

Student sets himself on fire at Denver-area school (http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/01/27/student-sets-self-on-fire/4939551/)

OKCisOK4me
01-27-2014, 02:15 PM
Maybe he wanted to be the album cover for one of the local garage bands, ala Rage Against the Machine.

kelroy55
01-27-2014, 06:25 PM
That's sad

Garin
01-27-2014, 06:57 PM
Seems to be a lot of trouble teens from Colorado.

bluedogok
01-27-2014, 07:18 PM
There are a lot of troubled teens everywhere, much of it from lack of parenting.

RadicalModerate
01-27-2014, 07:56 PM
Maybe they shouldn't have shown him that video--of that Buddhist Monk over there in Vietnam back in the day--in Civicshistorydiversity Class.

(it really is very, very sad . . .
yet at least he had the decency not to take out his frustrations/angst/etc.
on a bunch of "innocent" by-standers.)

Achilleslastand
01-27-2014, 08:10 PM
Maybe he wanted to be the album cover for one of the local garage bands, ala Rage Against the Machine.

That would be enough to make anyone set themselves on fire......

RadicalModerate
01-27-2014, 10:17 PM
That would be enough to make anyone set themselves on fire......

Yet . . . what about Arthur Brown's contribution to the cause . . ?
(back in '68?)
[pre-internet/social media]

gjl
01-27-2014, 10:39 PM
Very sad. I can't imagine the demons one has to have inside them to do such a thing. Fortunate he didn't feel the need to harm others in his attempt.

MadMonk
01-28-2014, 11:57 AM
"This is not someone's fault. I had this planned for years," the teen wrote in a social-media post. He went on to mention that friends over the weekend tried to talk him out of the suicide attempt. "If anyone says that they know why I did this, ... nobody knows and nobody will."
Man, that screams of an abusive childhood. Sad it had to come to this.

GoOKC1991
01-28-2014, 12:57 PM
Suicides in general are out of hand, be it from abusive parenting or bullying. Very sad.