Boneheaded Move: Cops Give Lighter to Kerosene-soaked Man

Do you mind if I smoke? The above image is purely illustrative, and not the actual incident or from Japan at all.
Like the title says, some cops in Nagoya didn’t add 2 and 2 to get fire! when they gave a cigarette and a lighter to a man that was not only soaked in a flammable liquid, but to add fuel to proverbial and literal fires, this was a guy that had been brought in for disturbed, violent behavior, and there is a no-smoking rule at the station. Earlier, the man that went alight had refused to remove his kerosene-soaked clothes, which apparently the cops were okay with. Shortly after they decided that they were not only okay with also breaking the no-smoking rule, but helping the guy to do it. They man took this good-willed move and turned it into an act of suicide, alighting himself from the knee.
In the end, we have a few cops that may be fired –well I doubt it will go as far as that, this is Japan– and a poor guy that is toast (the man did not survive and investigations are underway). Puns and incredulity aside, it’s a pretty tragic incident that could have been avoided by a simple application of common sense; one has to wonder if the cigarette thing was one of the Japanese police’s famous interrogation techniques (be a little nice to get them to talk), but we can only speculate.
This news item was culled from a Japan Today article.
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Well this post lit up my day, but after reading that rather lengthy post, I feel all burned out.
But seriously, I feel very saddened about this. Japanese people are meant to have common sense, aren’t they? So why did he light his knee?
WTF! that was what came to my mind when i read it..
there are stupid cops everywhere
Did any of you realize the tag is “News SATIRE”?
It actually happened though. I’m not sure what the satire is.
I actually chose that category because news items of this tone usually fall under that, from what I’ve seen. I’ll take a look and see if I can’t make something more appropriate now.
that’s funny
The uniform says police in KOREAN just to let you know… (kyung-chul)
quote: “The above image is purely illustrative, and not the actual incident or from Japan at all.”
thats the first line in the article^^
I hope the police mens, doesn’t have gas sprays in the hands hahahahaha.
This is incredible, I sent this to all the people I know.
Those Cops had a SENIOR moment.
I guess the cops should be saying “OOPS”