7 mo. ago • 97%

Elderly Oklahoma Man Dies After Igniting Himself On Fire When Deputies Attempted To Serve Eviction Notice

www.news9.com Man Dies After Igniting Fire When Deputies Attempted To Serve Eviction Notice

Body camera footage shows the moment a man doused his home in gasoline and then ignited the fire that killed him.

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Horrible conclusion to a desperate situation. The article didn’t mention it but the dog was in the bedroom with him and also died as well.

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- I get that this is not the kind of situation where one would think about this, but poor pets are always victims, no matter what. They don't understand what or why, they just suddenly are suffering :(
  
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  I've been watching a documentary about the collapse of the Soviet Union and those are always the worst parts. Fuck people, but don't leave the scared monkeys caged in a zoo in the middle of a war. We carelessly exploit so much and just throw it away.
  
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Bet whatever rich fuck now owning the house is going to have a party this weekend celebrating. With the judge.

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- I know this is a joke, but I don’t imagine this is a simple cleanup
  
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  I wasn't joking. I was being mildly hyperbolic. Landlord is just going to file an insurance claim. Probably get a tax break for the loss. Maybe instead of making 900,000 this year they make 875,000. Life goes on because fuck poor people
  
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  I guarantee you the landlord has insurance and will do none of the work themselves.
  
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  And who will do the cleanup? More poor people who don't own houses.
  
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Better to burn the landlords instead

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My dad was getting evicted from my childhood home that my dad built. Mostly from little faults on his own.

He was never suicidal but he told us that he was going to fight the police and would rather die than leave the house. He was pretty much planning on going down with the house.

After years and years of battling the bank that screwed my dad and losing my mom to cancer, I asked my dad to stop fighting and we convinced him to live in an apartment that my siblings pool together to pay for.

The point of it is losing a home is very depressing and hurtful. We don't need police to serve paper, but social workers and government support for people that got displaced.

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jeez, now the fire dept is going to have to be dispatched every time there's an eviction... or the police officers will get crosstrained to extinguish fires possibly?

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- Police officers can't even handle an acorn falling on a car, so I wouldn't count on them handling a self immolating person any better.
  
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  "Fire, fire" "Okay, pew, pew" "OMG, shots fired. Backup requested"
  
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- or the police officers will get crosstrained to extinguish fires possibly?
  
  Do they get to use guns to do it?
  
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- They could just stop using state violence to force people into homelessness in a society that has more empty houses than homeless people.
  
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- They'll just start opening fire when you reach for a lighter
  
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"The first thing I thought was about his soul. So we just prayed for him," said neighbor

makes sense, suicide is a sin. guy's gonna burn for eternity

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- For the life of me, I cannot imagine why any sane person would worship such an evil god-concept as the one many christians claim to believe in.
  
  38
  
  The term for a follower is "God fearing" for a reason. Most of them worship out of fear, not love.
  
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- Ah yes. That passage where Jesus said, "pay your landlord, for he is the idol which thou should worship for letting thyself life in thou's abode."
  
  Or when he said, "ignore thy neighbor when he is in pain, for he is not thy self."
  
  Or that passage in the bible that says, "it is easy for a rich man to get into the kingdom of God, and it is also easy for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle."
  
  I think one of Jesus' teachings said, "provide housing for thy sojourner, but only if he pays thee 30 silver coins."
  
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- Go fuck yourself dude, be self righteous somewhere else.
  
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  I assume the comment means in this person's eyes, not in their own. It seems like sarcastically discussing their beliefs, in that they didn't actually do anything that matters and are just worried this guy sinned. I don't know though. It's impossible to tell the difference between sarcasm and authenticity in text.
  
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  what is is where everything on lemmy is taken in some weirdly negative way? it's worse here than on reddit in its waning years.
  
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- Ah yeah. There’s always someone who is so devoid of a conscience that they will say something like this. It’s thinking like this and those that participate in it that keep the world from being a good place to live.
  
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- In which hell?
  
  Come on, get specific with your religious fervour.
  
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  I’m pretty sure everyone here died sometime between 2020 and 2022 and is in hell. We all just don’t know where we are yet.
  
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  hell is other people.
  
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- If you believe an invisible sky daddy watching all of your moves, ready to send you to burn for eternity at the slightest fuck up, then you need to grow up.
  
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- I'm just a dirty heathen, but...... Don't we all sin? And don't they all weigh evenly?
  
  Hell is gonna be standing room only. Better bring a folding chair with me.
  
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  Christians would believe your sins are forgiven if you repent, but suicide is a special case because you have to be living to repent. If your sin results in your death, you can't repent.
  
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  a flame retardant one, presumably ;)
  
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- Sounds like he might not necessarily have intended to kill himself so much as to just burn the house down.
  
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  eh.... by setting himself on fire? like, there's easier ways to commit arson
  
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- After you burn for the first few million years then burning would get pretty boring, I would imagine.
  
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- Be sure to say hi to him when you get there.
  
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