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Fur Protestor Self-Immolates

Things went horribly wrong in Portland, Oregon:

Officer accidentally used pepper spray on burning man

The first Portland Police officer to arrive on the scene of the man who set himself on fire Wednesday outside the Nicholas Ungar Furs store accidentally used pepper spray in an attempt to put out the flames instead of a fire extinguisher, officials at the Portland Police Bureau said Thursday.

Police said the officer, who was nearby, saw 26-year-old Daniel Shaull from Kansas on fire, parked her patrol car, went to her trunk and accidentally grabbed pepper spray used for riot control instead of the fire extinguisher.

Wasn't the police officer breaking the law, not to mention violating his human dignity, by trying to save his life in the first place? Hasn't Oregon decided that suicide is fundamental right? Perhaps he traveled all the way from Kansas for that very reason?

Maybe "self-immolation tourism" will be Oregon's next big growth market?

Could cross-market with organic gardening needs.

Comments

That's the best laugh I've had in two weeks! I'd love to see pepper spray become SOP for environMENTALists, animal rights people, and any other flavor of nutjob who puts plants and food ahead of human need, suffering, or progress.

Posted by: Scorched_Earth on July 24, 2010 06:29 PM

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