Somebody died of spontaneous combustion in Ireland...

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Well what with their inherently high blood alcohol levels...

I just got an idea... HUMAN MOLOTOV COCKTAILS!

 

[Wintermoot]

TOASTY!
OT
you know most cases of SHC can be explained by science

 

[Jabberwock xeno]

Somebody died of spontaneous combustion in Ireland..

Hardly shocking, alcohol is extremely flammable (budum tish)

Disclaimer - I am in no way, shape or form saying that all Irish people drink all the time ..... sometimes they sleep.

Interestingly, most SC victims tend to be alcoholics.

 

[Wintermoot]

Well what with their inherently high blood alcohol levels...

you DO know humans are at least 60% water right?

 

[Dusty Fred]

I feel that the coroner's verdict was recorded late on a Friday afternoon.

 

[DementedSheep]

Sounds like they just don?t know what happened. He probably didn?t randomly burst into flames for no reason, they just couldn?t figure out.

 

[Shakomaru]

Maybe he was a bad fire-eater.

 

[inFAMOUSCowZ]

Obviously this is a case from fringe.

 

[Carboncrown]

Somebody died of spontaneous combustion in Ireland..

Hardly shocking, alcohol is extremely flammable (budum tish)

Disclaimer - I am in no way, shape or form saying that all Irish people drink all the time ..... sometimes they sleep.

Interestingly, most SC victims tend to be alcoholics.

Passing out can be a real ***** when you're on fire.

 

[OrokuSaki]

From the article:

Deaths attributed by some to "spontaneous combustion" occur when a living human body is burned without an apparent external source of ignition.

Guess spontaneous combustion sounds better than "we failed at our job and have no idea why this dude burnt".

Yeah, I kinda figured that "Spontaneous Combustion" was one of those placeholder diagnosis that eventually got replaced when the doctor figured out WHY he died. I don't think one can spontaneously combust.

 

[The-Epicly-Named-Man]

Hurr hurr, Irish drink so much and that means he sploded cause alcohol splodes as well, hurr.

Really now, it's the twenty first century, these sort of jokes are just getting irritating, not to mention that they're untrue. If anything, you should be making jokes about how much tea the average Irish man drinks in a year.

OT: I love that the only Irish news people are concerned about internationally is this, not that we're coming up to a Presidential election where the main potential candidates are:

a) A former IRA leader
b) A gay man
c) A former Eurosong winner
d) An investor from the Irish version of Dragon's Den
e) Michael D. Higgins (not expecting anyone to know him, he's just a politician, although quite a good one)

 

[Gamegeneral]

I don't actually believe in God. But when I hear or read about spontaneous combustion, I can only ever imagine the traditional white-bearded-man-on-a-cloud sighing and saying "Meh, this shit's boring, better randomly incinerate someone."

Ask any sims player if they've ever intentionally killed their families. If they say no, they're either very new, or lying.

Hell, ask a player of god games in general.

 

[OldNewNewOld]

First thing that came to my mined when reading the title was Protal and Combustible lemons.
Next was "I'm going to hell. "

I feel sorry for him.

 

[funguy2121]

How does this make you feel?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15032614

Like coroners shouldn't subscribe to mysticism. The definition of spontaneous combustion, as explained in the article, is combustion without a discernible ignition source. Fire needs oxygen, fuel and an ignition source. This is scientific fact. People do not spontaneously combust. While there are surely more phenomena out there for us to discover/understand, people do not spontaneously ignite for no reason.

That's how I feel about it.

 

[Safaia]

I feel like the obligatory 'Irish must have been drunk' must be made but seems in bad taste.

Oh wait you guys already did that.

I don't know if it's really how he died but I know for sure that this is going to start some sort of panic because humans sure do love a reason to panic.

 

[William Ossiss]

It's just like Spinal Tap. Also the weirdest death I have ever heard of came from Ireland as well. A woman let her dog fuck her, she had an allergic reaction to its cum and died! That's fucked up! Ireland rules :L

i dont think thats as bad as the woman who used a carrot as a dildo and died from a bubble that formed from said carrot. though, its a very close call...

OT: See, i still want to know if the guy had a new girlfriend or not...

 

[Brandon237]

Is it sad that I found this funny?

I guess you can say....
/sunglasses
He went out with a bang!

More like in a blaze of glory...


.... YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Well his friends always said he had an....
/sunglasses
EXPLOSIVE PERSONALITY

From what I heard he had really good friends, they really knew how to...
/sunglasses
LIGHT HIM UP
YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHH!

 

[CrazyCapnMorgan]

I'm going to quote the planeswalker Chandra from Magic: The Gathering and say:

"Spontaneous combustion is a myth. If you catch on fire, somebody wanted you to."

Also...

I guess you can say....
/sunglasses
He went out with a bang!

More like in a blaze of glory...


.... YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!

Well his friends always said he had an....
/sunglasses
EXPLOSIVE PERSONALITY

Well, aren't you two just...
*puts on flame-retardant sunglasses*
...on fire.

YEEEEEEEEEEAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!

 

[The Bandit]

Well, there are two or three things that could have happened, the most obvious would be a spark from the open fire, hitting him and igniting his clothing, although unlikely it is totally possible. Also he could have just fallen asleep with a lit cigarette, it burned down and lit his clothes, and he wakes in flames, jumps out of the chair and falls to the floor, with the cigarette burning itself out.

The problem with these two possibilities is that they leave no evidence of what caused the burning, hence the confusion.

A cigarette burning up would definitely leave evidence.

 

[mrc390]

Funny how I can make fun of a some kid dying of masturbating 42 times in a row in another country but once someone in my own country dies of some random funny shit it makes me feel depressed.