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Thursday, May 29, 2008

Seattle Police Negotiating with Gas Soaked Man

posted by on May 29 at 11:29 AM

Seattle Police have surrounded a Crown Hill home after a man soaked himself in gasoline and ran inside earlier this morning.

Around 9:40 a.m., Seattle Police received a report that a man wearing a gas canister around his neck had entered a home on 4th ave NW and NW 90th street.

Police negotiators and the SWAT team are on scene.

Will update when more info becomes available.

UPDATE: There are apparently two children—ages 11 and 13—inside the house.

UPDATE 2: The man has surrendered to police.

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1

With the price of gas today, this is an elitist suicide.

Posted by Jubilation T. Cornball | May 29, 2008 12:04 PM
2

Are any Hummer drivers outside there trying to cyphon the gas of the guy?

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | May 29, 2008 12:14 PM
3

You took the words right off of my keyboard, JTC. Who can afford immolation these days?

Posted by Dan Savage | May 29, 2008 12:14 PM
4

If he's been huffing his own fumes for the last 3 hours, he must be higher than buhjeezuz.

Posted by Mahtli69 | May 29, 2008 12:37 PM
5

Get the kids out of there, throw a match on the house, and do society a favor.

Posted by john cocktson | May 29, 2008 12:45 PM
6

Oh, kids. Now it's not funny.

Posted by Dan Savage | May 29, 2008 12:46 PM
7

Oh, Dan,

Given how hard your dick gets when kids are abused and killed in horrific fashions, why are you chastising the typical morally bereft Seattle douchebags that populate SLOG for laughing at what can only be described as a horrible situation. Smells of hypocrisy.

I suspect, right now, you have a bit of pre-ejaculate oozing from your cock, your mouth is watering with the visions of dead children, and you might have even placed a little series of beads up your ass in the hope of something truly terrible happening to these kids.

Fuck you and your hypocrisy.

Posted by ecce homo | May 29, 2008 1:00 PM
8

Wow. That's vile even by ecce homo standards.

Posted by lostboy | May 29, 2008 1:03 PM
9

'Cuz every girl's crazy 'bout a gas soaked man...

Posted by joykiller | May 29, 2008 1:08 PM
10

@8, he has said worse. This is just his warm-up.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger | May 29, 2008 1:09 PM
11

At least he didn't use bottled water - that stuff's way more expensive than gasoline.

Posted by Will in Seattle | May 29, 2008 1:31 PM
12

Very funny Will! Jesus if only he had set himself on fire while bent over eating his own asshole he could have generated a dozen more witty comments on the Slog.

Posted by I see your boobie | May 29, 2008 2:10 PM
13

WASHINGTON -- The number of Army suicides increased again last year, amid the most violent year yet in both the Iraq and Afghanistan wars. An Army official said Thursday that 115 troops committed suicide in 2007, a nearly 13 percent increase over the previous year's 102. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because a full report on the deaths wasn't being released until later Thursday.

Posted by I see your boobie | May 29, 2008 2:10 PM

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