Gasoline + Taser = Human Torch

I'm feeling especially lazy this week, as I'm being forced to work 11-12 hours each day. Thus, I clicked on the first article I saw on cnn.com this morning. I'll tell you what, it's a good thing none of you are reading this. Anyway, a guy in Australia is being treated for severe burns after he was tased by police and burst into flames.

CNN) -- A man, who doused himself with gasoline and charged at an officer, burst into flames when he was hit with a Taser, police in Australia said Tuesday. "He was carrying a lighter and pouring himself with petrol," said Inspector Bill Munnee with the West Australian Police. "We don't know if the lighter set it off or something from the Taser."Authorities have launched an inquiry into what happened Monday when an officer arrived at the 36-year-old man's house in the remote desert community of Warburton. Police had received a report that the man and some others were sniffing glue, Munnee said. At the sight of the arriving officers, the man ran out of the house with a container of gasoline and a cigarette lighter, police said. When he ignored the officer's command to stop, the officer fired his Taser stun gun -- and the man "caught alight," Munnee said. [Source: cnn.com]

I swear to God this happened in an episode of CSI. Sounds like a copycat to me. They should ban that show down under...and also here...in fact, better ban ALL procedural cop dramas. You know, just to be safe. At any rate, this guy got what he deserved. Sniffing glue? Really? Unless you're fourteen and this is the year 1978, you shouldn't be sniffing glue. That went the way of whip-its and ludes. Man-up and get some meth, pussy.