Very sick "joke": Setting homeless man ablaze...

by Elsewhere 10 Replies latest jw friends

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  Elsewhere

  http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/06/17/man.set.ablaze.ap/index.html

  Video shows homeless man being set ablaze

  CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- Police asked local TV stations to air a surveillance video showing a homeless man who was set ablaze flailing his arms and running in a circle as he tried to extinguish the flames.

  Police were looking for up to eight men who participated in the attack outside an agency that helps the homeless. The victim, Lucas Adama Wiser, 21, was sleeping on a bench when he was set on fire Tuesday, and remained hospitalized Thursday with third-degree burns.

  "I don't know if this was a joke that they thought they were playing on somebody or what their mindset was, but it was a pretty sick joke," Police Lt. Rocky Vipond said. "We're hoping someone might recognize that vehicle and possibly the group of guys."

  The surveillance video at Corpus Christi Metro Ministries showed a dark sport utility vehicle and a smaller vehicle pulling up to Wiser and setting him on fire.

  Police could not identify license plate numbers from the video.
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  Carmel

  Hey I thought that only happened under bridges in Portland!

  the evil is spreading.. payin you Txins back for your west nile

  carm
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  ohiocowboy

  That poor guy! Do people have nothing better to do than try to make someone's situation worse than it already is? Sick Baaaastaaaads! Had it been a GB member set ablaze, it might be understandable, but someone as defenseless as this man already was......Shame on them!!!
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  shera

  *shakes head*
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  Mary

  I say that when they catch these little pricks who did this, that they be set on fire till they're done medium-well........see how they like it......rotten bastards.
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  Undaunted Danny

  Well,if there is a cosmic conscience aka God;this is his take: Matthew 18 10 Beware that you do not despise or feel scornful toward or think little of one of these little ones, for I tell you that in heaven their angels always are in the presence of and look upon the face of My Father Who is in heaven.
  
  
  
  
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  kls

  How can anyone think this is a fun thing to do. How can a person enflict such pain and think it is a joke.
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  truthseeker1

  This kinda makes me want to vomit...
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  simplesally

  This was a joke? Cruel and violent behavior is what it was! I hope they catch these guys!

  Did this man die?
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  confusedjw

  THIS IS THE SORT OF THING THAT SHOULD SET THE CITY INTO AN OUTRAGE AND A BOUNTY PUT ON THE HEADS OF THE ANIMALS THAT DID THIS.
  

  THIS SHOULD CARRY A PENALTY OF DECADES IN PRISO

  I ENCOURGE YOU TO WRITE THE CITY AND PUT PRESSURE ON THEM TO GET THESE PRICKS

  http://www.ci.corpus-christi.tx.us/