Lawyer sets himself on fire at Prospect Park in protest suicide against fossil fuels

[Onkel Neal]

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/charred-body-found-prospect-park-walking-path-article-1.3933598

Groan, wth is wrong with some people?

So much material here, but aside from the fact that a lawyer just took himself out of the gene pool and curiously opted not to go solar, I guess it is sad a human life was taken.

And then
“I am David Buckel and I just killed myself by fire as a protest suicide,” read a hand-written suicide note left near the blackened circle of burned grass. “I apologize to you for the mess.”

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[Eichhörnchen]

A tormented soul

[Aktungbby]

A nationally known advocate for gay rights and the environment died Saturday in a fiery Prospect Park suicide, with his self-immolation meant as a wake-up call to save the planet. SO HE CREATES A LITTLE 'GLOBAL WARMING' AND A 'TOXIC WASTE' SITE IN A PUBLIC PARK TO MAKE HIS POINT...A BREACH IN MY SENSE OF LOGIC HERE!:timeout:

[Mr Quatro]

A tormented soul

nationally known advocate for gay rights

When a rock star dies of a drug related problem they always say, "He couldn't cope with his demons" Same thing here ... his passion caused the problem :yep:

[Jimbuna]

When a rock star dies of a drug related problem they always say, "He couldn't cope with his demons" Same thing here ... his passion caused the problem :yep:

True that :yep:

[Skybird]

Myself grinning from one ear to the other, this story maybe rivals my link to the Palestinian tire story I posted earlier today. :up: Using fossil fuel to set yourself ablaze in protest to using fossil fuel...? Sure this is no standup comedian competition?

No, I do not think that really every loss of life always has to be mourned about.

[Platapus]

That is one serious way to protest!

[les green01]

sound like a moron

[August]

sound like a moron

A hypocritical one too, sending up a big cloud of gasoline emissions. Couldn't he find a less polluting way of offing himself?

[Rockstar]

A big magnifying glass could have done the trick.

http://cdn.trendhunterstatic.com/thumbs/magnifying-glass.jpeg

[Onkel Neal]

Myself grinning from one ear to the other, this story maybe rivals my link to the Palestinian tire story I posted earlier today. :up: Using fossil fuel to set yourself ablaze in protest to using fossil fuel...? Sure this is no standup comedian competition?

No, I do not think that really every loss of life always has to be mourned about.

That's true, I think he was someone who needed help, but the way he did it was pathetic and funny at the same time.

[em2nought]

I'm just thankful he didn't try to deal a blow to the second amendment on his way out.

[aanker]

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SO HE CREATES A LITTLE 'GLOBAL WARMING' AND A 'TOXIC WASTE' SITE IN A PUBLIC PARK TO MAKE HIS POINT...A BREACH IN MY SENSE OF LOGIC HERE!

Some Buddhist monks would pour gas over their heads and set themselves ablaze to protest during the Vietnam war. I always thought that was a waste of a life back then.... this guy, I don't know.

[em2nought]

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.... this guy, I don't know.

One less lefty lawyer. :hmmm:

[Sean C]

Some Buddhist monks would pour gas over their heads and set themselves ablaze to protest during the Vietnam war. I always thought that was a waste of a life back then.

They still do to protest China's occupation & interference in their affairs. As a Buddhist this is an important issue to me. There have been over 150 self-immolations in Tibet/China since 2009. The latest was on March 7th of this year. You can look at as a waste, but it's the monks' way of showing their devotion to their way of life and their spiritual leader - the Dalai Lama. They would rather die a horribly painful death than renounce either.

I do think this lawyer guy was an absolute idiot, though.

[Onkel Neal]

There has to be at least 6,000 better ways to make a point or oppose something than setting yourself on fire, though.

[Skybird]

Having once labelled myself as kind of a Buddhist, too, I never understood and never respected Buddhist monks setting themselves ablaze, may it be during Vietnam or during the Chinese occupation.

The proper way to protest would be to set your enemy ablaze. :D

Protesting, and resisting to be forced to be or to do something one does not want to do and does not want to be, are not the same thing. Its two different things. The warrior who got defeate din battle and refusing to surrender, is not protesting when accpeting his death in a last chanceless fight. Somebody expressing his protest, not necessarily always is one who counts as a defeated.

[Slyguy3129]

You forgot to mention why we are suppose to care that this particular idiot lawyer killed himself. Because he is a fairy. So in truth, he didn't need to kill himself to take himself from the gene pool, he already had.

Maybe we can convience David Hogg to shoot himself with an AR-15 to protest gun violence? That would be a coup.

The idea that the left thinks I'm going to let a child, preach to me, about rights he doesn't even have the right to excersise, is just absolutely laughable at best, and a pure example of how stupid liberal logic is at worst.

[Dowly]

Take care to not cut yourself on all that edge there.

[Slyguy3129]

Take care to not cut yourself on all that edge there.

My statements weren't meant to cut me, nor do they. They were intended to cut the other side of the coin. Nonetheless, thank you for your concern, but it isn't warranted. I don't need a Nanny, it's why I don't vote them into office. :03:

[vienna]

Back about 15 or so years ago, I was working in an office were there were several young interns, all not even born during the Vietnam war. One of the interns was asking some of the other older employees, like myself, about the times surrounding the Vietnam era. I made mention of the self-immolation protests by the Buddhist monks in Saigon; she expressed disbelief, so I searched out a clip of one of the protests online and showed it to her. Her reaction?... "Wow, he really must have felt strongly about the War!"...

My reaction? "Ya think?"...









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[Rockstar]

Im not sure Buddhists and in particular the guy who set himself on fire were protesting the Vietnam war in general. I think they were protesting Ngo Dinh Diem's Saigon pro-catholic government pogroms waged against the majority Buddhist population.

[vienna]

IIRC, there were several self-immolation incidents in SVN and, indeed, some were as a protest against the SVN government's treatment of Buddhists, but there were others either protesting the War outright or a combo of the war and the US support of the corrupt SVN government regime(s):


List of political self-immolations --

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_political_self-immolations









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