Man sets himself on fire on KennedyDrivers watched as he dies near 'Flame' sculpture
November 4, 2006BY ANNIE SWEENEY Staff ReporterAs horrified Friday-morning commuters watched, a man apparently doused himself with gasoline and lit himself on fire along the Kennedy Expy. near a 25-foot-tall Loop sculpture titled "Flame of the Millennium."A homemade sign was found near his charred body that read, "Thou Shalt Not Kill," said State Police Lt. Lincoln Hampton. Police are reviewing a videotape that also was found near the body.
The death of the man, whose identity has not been released, was being treated as a suicide, authorities said.
Witnesses told police they saw the man ignite himself just before 7 a.m. near the southbound Kennedy's Ohio Street exit, Hampton said.
The Chicago Fire Department was called to the scene to help extinguish the fire, which was set at the base of the seven-ton sculpture along the Kennedy.
An Illinois Department of Transportation worker was among those to witness the incident, according to a preliminary report.
A can of clear liquid smelling like gasoline also was recovered, the report said.
i'm hearing it's malachi ritscher, who ran savage sound. this is really sad and fucked up.
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:06 (seventeen years ago) link
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― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― jaymc (jaymc), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:12 (seventeen years ago) link
KY polls are officially closed, and I'm outta here, first to drink, then, later, to watch Apocalypse Now for the first time.
― diebold with a vengeance (nickalicious), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:13 (seventeen years ago) link
November 7, 2006, 1:19 PM CST
A man who reportedly believed Republicans were conspiring to steal today's election entered an Allentown polling site, signed in and proceeded to smash the screen of one of the electronic voting machines with a metal cat paperweight, poll volunteers said.
Michael Young, 43, of 375 Auburn St., will be charged with felony criminal mischief and tampering with voting machines, according to Ronald Manescu, chief of investigations for Allentown police.
Police gave no motive, but a source said Young, a registered Independent, believed Republicans had conspired to win the election by using electronic ballots. This is the first time electronic machines are being widely used in a Pennsylvania general election.
"He smashed it with the cat's ears," said volunteer Jim Govostis, who watched the incident unfold at Raker Center, a nursing home owned by Good Shepherd, around 12:30 p.m.
Young, who brought the paperweight with him, then sat down, hung his head and waited for police, who arrested him without incident.
"He came in here very peaceably and showed his ID," said volunteer Gladys Pezoldt, "then he got on the machine and just snapped…He was immediately remorseful. When the police came, he got up, turned around and put his hands behind his back."
Lehigh County Board of Elections Chief Clerk Stacy J. Sterner said votes recorded on the machine were saved. More than 130 people had voted at the site by the time of the incident.
"The good news is that even though the machine is broken, the votes are not lost on the memory card. They have them in custody at the voter registration office," Sterner said.
Sterner has worked in the voter registration office for 19 years. "Nothing can top this," she said.
The $5,000 machine will have to be replaced, Sterner said. It was one of two in the building.
Volunteer Shirley Rossetti said Young never spoke as he smashed the screen. "He did a job on it, didn't he?" she said. "It's frightening, because in this day and age, you just never know."
-- reporting by Daniel Patrick Sheehan and Wendy Solomon, The Morning Call
― hstencil (hstencil), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:14 (seventeen years ago) link
ha i like this guy
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
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― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― deej.. (deej..), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:22 (seventeen years ago) link
xpost: allentown & environs are HARDCORE redneck, exactly the type of place where santorum would do at least OK -- so maybe he ISN'T so paranoid after all.
― Eisbär (llamasfur), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
― jhoshea megafauna (scoopsnoodle), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link
-- deej.. (clublonel...) (webmail), November 7th, 2006. (deej..)
out of all the races, if Democrats lose one, I'd most like it to be TN-Sen. face it, Ford is an asshole. he's better than Corker, that's for damn sure, but I won't be shedding any tears for his loss.
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:35 (seventeen years ago) link
http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/photo/homepage/hp11-7-06u.jpg
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:37 (seventeen years ago) link
This afternoon, RNC chairman Ken Mehlman's office released a transcript of Mehlman's appearance on The Rush Limbaugh Show this morning, where he suggested that the Democrats might be stealing the election. "One thing I can tell you is this is part of the Democratic playbook," Mehlman said. "And in fact, if you look Rush, at the whole country, we're seeing more problems on behalf of Democrats than any of the alleged problems on behalf of Republicans."
This early foreshadowing underlines my most lousy thought: That in the light of a dem win, the GOp will declare the election invalid.
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:38 (seventeen years ago) link
Project much?
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
If they're that desperate to shoot themselves in the foot...
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― Grey, Ian (IanBrooklyn), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:42 (seventeen years ago) link
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:43 (seventeen years ago) link
Should the GOP hold (I still don't rule it out), then I will avoid political blogs for the most part for a few days. (Did that after 2004, helped my sanity.) Should they lose, another matter entirely.
― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:53 (seventeen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Tuesday, 7 November 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
VA no winner can be projected
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― like murderinging (modestmickey), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:01 (seventeen years ago) link
not video, but some of the most informed radio converage you're likely to find- of course with some emphasis on northern california politics (links to sister stations in LA, houston, washington, new york, fresno):pacifica's KPFA radio berkeley
i was hoping alameda county would have some of the sequoia touch screen voting machines that you can supposedly hack, but instead i got a ball point pen and a piece of paper to feed to the sequioa reader.
― viborg (viborg), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:03 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:04 (seventeen years ago) link
LOL - CNN's banner reads "CNN projects Vermont independent Bernie Sanders -- who says he will caucus with Democrats -- will win Senate seat, and Republican Richard Lugar re-elected in Indiana." Pretty far out on that limb there!
― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― milo z (mlp), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― gbx (skowly), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Euai Kapaui (tracerhand), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:15 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
MT: 53-46 Dem
― gwynywdd dwnyt fyrwr byychydd gww (donut), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:20 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:21 (seventeen years ago) link
Wish there was a better name for it, tho. "wardialing"? "voicemail droids gone amuck"?
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― carson dial (carson dial), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:24 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― Ed (dali), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― kingfish prætor (kingfish 2.0), Wednesday, 8 November 2006 00:32 (seventeen years ago) link