This topic is in parellel to "The downfall of America", but in this posts, the ignorant and selfish take themselves out or one of their own, before they can hurt the innocent:

Driver Who Tested Positive for DUI Not Arrested, Dies in Wreck 3 Hours Later
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 [foxnews.com]


JANESVILLE, Wis. — A driver who was stopped for speeding and tested over the legal limit for blood-alcohol content, but was not arrested, was killed less than three hours later Monday when his car hit a tree, according to police.

Janesville police records indicate that Jason Stacy, 29, was seen speeding and driving erratically downtown shortly after 1 a.m.

According to an analysis of police records by WISC-TV in Madison, Stacy was stopped and given a Breathalyzer test that indicated a blood-alcohol level of 0.12 percent. The legal limit in Wisconsin is 0.08.

Stacy was ticketed for imprudent speed and failing to stay in the center of his lane. The officer didn't arrest Stacy but did prevent him from driving until a friend picked him up, the television station reported.

Around 3:45 a.m., Stacy's car hit a tree and burst into flames, deputies said. Stacy, who was alone and not wearing a seatbelt, was found about 50 feet away.

Janesville police declined to comment. The Rock County Sheriff's Department said it is investigating.

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Woman Survives Crash With Train After Boyfriend Stops on Tracks [foxnews.com]

Monday, May 21, 2007

LOS ANGELES — A man trying to kill himself and his girlfriend by stopping a car on railroad tracks died Monday when a commuter train crashed into the vehicle, police said. The girlfriend survived.

The man drove the car in front of a group of other vehicles stopped at a railroad crossing in the San Fernando Valley neighborhood of Sunland, Officer Mike Lopez said.

The driver, who was seen arguing with his girlfriend, parked the car on the tracks moments before a northbound Metrolink train crossed the road, Lopez said.

The train hit the rear passenger side of the car, spinning it around and ejecting the driver. The girlfriend was taken to the hospital, where she was later upgraded to stable condition, Lopez said.

Officials had earlier said they believed the man was trying to kill his girlfriend but fled the car before the train hit, only to be crushed by the car. They later revised their account because of new information.

There were no injuries on the train, which carried 132 passengers and crew members, said Denise Tyrrell, a Metrolink spokeswoman. The train had superficial damage.

"The train to your car is like your car to a soda pop can. It's just not going to be a fair fight," Tyrrell said.

So Jason Stacy had one more beer than the LEGAL limit allows for DRIVING.... and he deserves to die in a fire? People are supposed to jump for glee?

Do you know what real drunks test for when pulled over or after they get in a wreck?

Quote from mitul2288 : ...Do you know what real drunks test for when pulled over or after they get in a wreck?

Why do we have a limit of .08 if we're going to reserve enforcement to "real drunks" with higher blood alcohol content?

Innocent people killed by drunk drivers are still dead regardless of whether the drunk had .08 or .32 bac.

Quote from mitul2288 : So Jason Stacy had one more beer than the LEGAL limit allows for DRIVING.... and he deserves to die in a fire? People are supposed to jump for glee?

He made a conscious decision to drink and drive and accepted the consequences. I will be honest, I get a sick joy out of hearing stories where drunk drivers actually kill themselves instead of others. Probably has a lot to do with my driver's ed class in highschool when they showed the actual footage of a completely burned body of a 8 year old girl who got trapped and killed by burning alive in a burning car hit by a drunk driver. By the way, the drunk driver survived literally unharmed. I had a close friend in highschool and an uncle I was close to die in drunken driving accidents where they were drunk and fortunately hurt no one else. While I was sad to lose them, I felt little sympathy for them and more for their families.

Man caught in industrial fan is killed [miamiherald.com]

A man with a record for burglary was killed Thursday morning by the blades of an industrial fan as he tried to wriggle out of a warehouse he had apparently broken into overnight, police said.

As the intruder was squeezing past the fan to make his getaway, he managed to kick the on/off switch into the ''on'' position -- with predictable results.

''He did it to himself,'' said Napier Velazquez, a Miami police spokesman.

The warehouse at 7124 NW Second Ct. belongs to Marantha Used Clothing, which takes in used clothes, packages them in bundles and ships them to Haiti. In addition to old clothes, the building is filled with used ceiling fans, tennis rackets and battered bicycle helmets.

''He was stealing just junk,'' said Lt. Bill Schwartz of the Miami Police Department.

The man was discovered at 8:30 am. by Anicette Pacouloute, a worker at the warehouse who was opening the building. An employee for just three days, she spotted the man's legs dangling from the opening that encases the fan and called 911.

''I'm shocked. I'm distraught. I've never seen anything like this,'' she said.

The name of the victim, a man in his 40s, was not immediately released, although Schwartz called him a ''known burglar.'' He entered the warehouse by prying apart some metal bars sometime after Pacouloute closed up shop at 7 p.m. Wednesday.

The fan, which caught the man around the rib cage area, ventilates the concrete building that sits amid a row of industrial structures.

One of the blades of the six-bladed fan was badly bent after the encounter.

that last one was on mythbusters awhile ago. "myth of the decapitating fan"

Quote from bonkman : that last one was on mythbusters awhile ago. "myth of the decapitating fan"

The body was found this morning in Miami at 8:30 AM. The event was not a myth but an article in today's Miami Herald.

I thought the title "When Crazies take out Crazies or themselves" referred to the Hollywood dating scene.

Quote from Hurricane : The body was found this morning in Miami at 8:30 AM. The event was not a myth but an article in today's Miami Herald.

nor was he decapitated.....I was just saying, mythbusters had done something like this. nothing to read into here

Quote from bonkman : nor was he decapitated.....I was just saying, mythbusters had done something like this. nothing to read into here

IIRC, the mythbusters test was with a ceiling fan, which is NOTHING like the powerful industrial fan mentioned in this article.

Quote from Xnarg : IIRC, the mythbusters test was with a ceiling fan, which is NOTHING like the powerful industrial fan mentioned in this article.

at the end, in order to obtain a decapitation, they used an industrial fan with sharpened edges on the blades. Their conclusion was that death would likely occur by bludgeoning (as it did here) rather than decapitation.

how's that go.... survival of the fittest - or more appropriatley - that evolution weeds out the bad seeds?

Quote from bonkman : at the end, in order to obtain a decapitation, they used an industrial fan with sharpened edges on the blades. Their conclusion was that death would likely occur by bludgeoning (as it did here) rather than decapitation.

That was an industrial ceiling fan, wasn't it?

Do you think the below might do the trick?

Quote from Xnarg : That was an industrial ceiling fan, wasn't it? Do you think the below might do the trick?

They actually used a lawn mower engine with some "industrial" blades (that were sharpened).