Man kills self using chainsaw during police standoff.......

[Pert_UK]

Holy, living, FUCK!!!

"A Grand Island man killed himself with a chain saw Wednesday after a seven-hour standoff with police and state troopers, authorities said.

Paul E. Smidt Jr., 40, died after police tried to arrest him on a federal warrant, said Deb Collins, a spokeswoman for the Nebraska State Patrol...

Smidt, carrying a chain saw, barricaded himself in a bathroom at the back of business. Officers got into the bathroom and ordered Smidt to drop the chain saw. When he refused, an officer fired a nonlethal "beanbag" round, striking Smidt, Collins said.

Smidt then lowered his neck onto the chain saw, taking his own life, she said. "He did not stumble or fall on the chain saw," she said. "

http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_pg=1638&u_sid=1291820

[LostInAnomie]

1. GOD DAMN!

That is bat shit crazy!

[ikojo]

2. But I thought stuff like that didn't happen in

places like Omaha.

[Quetzal]

3. Holy fucking Ouch!!!

*shudder*

[RadicalMom]

4. I was in the ER once when a man was brought in with...

a chainsaw imbedded in his stomach. We didn't see it, luckily, and assumed it was accidental, never saw anything in the paper. God, I wouldn't own one of those things.

[Algorem]

5. I've heard of neck of the woods but this is ridiculous.

[Coventina]

6. Many years ago there was a suicide here in Phoenix

where a guy walked into a pawn shop, asked to see a chain saw they had for sale, and proceeded to saw his head off in front of the shopkeep and the other customers.

Yikes!

On a lighter note, when my brother was really little, he once tripped and fell on a (non-operating) chainsaw, and it left a cool track mark of little scars across his forehead (they eventually disappeared). But for awhile he looked like he'd had a lobotomy!
:D

[DS1]

7. Now THAT'S what I call a dedicated performance artist!

I honestly don't know if I'd scream or laugh my fucking ass off!

:7

[Coventina]

8. A little from column a, a little from column b....

But something like that's gotta suck for the store personnel to clean up.

:puke: