Man decapitated, cororner rules "nothing suspicious"

[philip964]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/engl ... 505443.stm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Man decapitated, cororner rules "nothing suspicious". He was the last tenant, stopping a new development.

[The Annoyed Man]

"We were called to the address on Bodmin Road on 5 July at approximately 4.20pm to a non-suspicious death [wink, wink, nudge, nudge]," she said.

[carlson1]

Arkansas' Medical Examiner Fahmy Malak ruled many (obvious homicides) as suicides. If you google Malak you will see all kinds of "suspicious rulings" he made.

[jimlongley]

It's not suspicious because they know who did it and why. He was blocking progress, therefore . . .

Isn't that the next step, after taking away the guns, toward a totalitarian state?

Although it does kind of remind me of the old Judge Roy Bean ruling that cowboy A, who shot at cowboy B with a revolver, committed suicide because cowboy B was armed with a rifle.

[VMI77]

I remember when I used to live in an apartment...the sound of chainsaws at night in the other apartments used to keep me awake for hours. They must have practiced safe chainsaw use though because none of them cut off any heads, their own, or others.

[ELB]

So effectively what the Brit authorities are trying to say is he committed suicide with a chainsaw.

Hokay.

?

[Keith B]

My brother-in-law lived in a frat house during college. They had a dead tree in the back yard. Being a farm boy he brought a chainsaw back with him after a weekend home so he could take the tree down and use it for firewood for the frat house fireplace.

The next weekend a bunch of them took their girlfriends to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the drive-in. About 3AM the next morning my BIL snuck down to the basement and brought the chainsaw back up to the main in the main corridor. He fired it up (minus the chain). He said he never realized that macho frat guys sound like a bunch of squealing little girls when they get awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a chainsaw.

[RoyGBiv]

I'm trying to picture how one would cut off their own head with a chainsaw..
At some point about mid way through, in my imagination, I keep dieing and my hand falls off the throttle.
I always wind up dead, but not severed. Even falling on it while in the act, my minds eye can't get to "complete transection".

[ELB]

My brother-in-law lived in a frat house during college. They had a dead tree in the back yard. Being a farm boy he brought a chainsaw back with him after a weekend home so he could take the tree down and use it for firewood for the frat house fireplace.

The next weekend a bunch of them took their girlfriends to see Texas Chainsaw Massacre at the drive-in. About 3AM the next morning my BIL snuck down to the basement and brought the chainsaw back up to the main in the main corridor. He fired it up (minus the chain). He said he never realized that macho frat guys sound like a bunch of squealing little girls when they get awakened in the middle of the night by the sound of a chainsaw.

When I was in college my dorm house used to show TCM as a money-raiser each year (and it brought in a lot of money). I always wanted to do what your b-in-law did. But I didn't have a chainsaw, and sure didn't have the money to buy one back then.

[ELB]

I'm trying to picture how one would cut off their own head with a chainsaw..
At some point about mid way through, in my imagination, I keep dieing and my hand falls off the throttle.
I always wind up dead, but not severed. Even falling on it while in the act, my minds eye can't get to "complete transection".

I was thinking that too. I suppose you could tape or wire it so it would run on its own, but then propping up somehow so it would fall on the neck... and it wouldn't be an instantaneous decapitation, like a guillotine, so for at least a second or two (which is a long time under duress) one would have to let the saw chew away... I dunno, sounds suspicious to me...

[KD5NRH]

I'm trying to picture how one would cut off their own head with a chainsaw..
At some point about mid way through, in my imagination, I keep dieing and my hand falls off the throttle.
I always wind up dead, but not severed. Even falling on it while in the act, my minds eye can't get to "complete transection".

This. IIRC, there was a guy who tried this a few years back (on his ex girlfriend's lawn as I recall) and only got about halfway through before he was dead.

[ELB]

Once I realized this story was about six years old, I thought "Paul Harvey*."

http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/w ... d28418b05b" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I was right about taping it to run on its own, but the idea of an electric chainsaw -- and a timer -- didn't occur to me.


*i.e. there's got to be a rest of the story....

[MechAg94]

I'm trying to picture how one would cut off their own head with a chainsaw..
At some point about mid way through, in my imagination, I keep dieing and my hand falls off the throttle.
I always wind up dead, but not severed. Even falling on it while in the act, my minds eye can't get to "complete transection".

This. IIRC, there was a guy who tried this a few years back (on his ex girlfriend's lawn as I recall) and only got about halfway through before he was dead.

Yeah, I think you would have to set it up so gravity would help make it happen one way or another.

[Dadtodabone]

We humans are endlessly inventive. I wonder why we've not heard of a legislative push to ban private ownership of chainsaws?

[rbwhatever1]

We humans are endlessly inventive. I wonder why we've not heard of a legislative push to ban private ownership of chainsaws?

I have lots of moments when I wouldn't mind giving up my chainsaws...