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Benicio
Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet
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 Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 8:42 am Post subject: Korean Darwin Awards Nominee |
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Threatening to set himself on fire to try and convince his ex-GF to come back to him. Do you think that won her heart?
Definite Darwin Awards nomination!
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/07/117_28489.html
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Man Cleared of Helping Love Rival Commit Suicide
A man was acquitted of aiding and abetting a suicide even though he handed over a device used and provoked the action.
A high court Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling which handed down a one-year prison term to the 30-year-old man. He was charged for handing over a cigarette lighter to his girlfriend's former boyfriend who died after using it to set himself on fire after threatening to do so unless she got back with him.
``Suicide abetting is an act inciting a person to commit suicide assuming the person will die. But he handed over the lighter on the assumption that the victim would not die, so he did not abet the suicide,'' the court said in the ruling.
Last September, the ex-boyfriend poured gasoline on himself in front of the couple and threatened to set himself on fire unless she came back to him. The new boyfriend threw his lighter to him, saying, ``Go and die, if you dare.'' The ex-boyfriend, after hesitating for a while, set fire to himself with the lighter and later died.
The new boyfriend claimed at the lower court that he did not intend to assist in the suicide as he never expected he would actually set himself on fire. But the court handed down the jail term and arrested him.
The high court, however, ruled the ex-boyfriend had not decided to actually commit suicide but poured gasoline on himself as an action to express his love for her, considering he placed his own lighter and cigarettes in his friend's custody before the incident and did not leave a suicide note.
``He seems to have set fire to himself impulsively, not intending to do so beforehand,'' the court said.
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BigBuds
Joined: 15 Sep 2005
Location: Changwon
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:05 am Post subject: |
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Man Cleared of Helping Love Rival Commit Suicide
A man was acquitted of aiding and abetting a suicide even though he handed over a device used and provoked the action.
A high court Wednesday reversed a lower court ruling which handed down a one-year prison term to the 30-year-old man. He was charged for handing over a cigarette lighter to his girlfriend's former boyfriend who died after using it to set himself on fire after threatening to do so unless she got back with him.
``Suicide abetting is an act inciting a person to commit suicide assuming the person will die. But he handed over the lighter on the assumption that the victim would not die, so he did not abet the suicide,'' the court said in the ruling. |
What the f%$k did he expect was going to happen when the guy set himself on fire? He'd get a suntan? 
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Last September, the ex-boyfriend poured gasoline on himself in front of the couple and threatened to set himself on fire unless she came back to him. The new boyfriend threw his lighter to him, saying, ``Go and die, if you dare.'' The ex-boyfriend, after hesitating for a while, set fire to himself with the lighter and later died.
The new boyfriend claimed at the lower court that he did not intend to assist in the suicide as he never expected he would actually set himself on fire. But the court handed down the jail term and arrested him.
The high court, however, ruled the ex-boyfriend had not decided to actually commit suicide but poured gasoline on himself as an action to express his love for her, considering he placed his own lighter and cigarettes in his friend's custody before the incident and did not leave a suicide note.
``He seems to have set fire to himself impulsively, not intending to do so beforehand,'' the court said. |
So planning to kill yourself is suicide but doing it impulsively isn't. |
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Matty
Joined: 13 Jun 2008
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| Posted: Wed Jul 30, 2008 9:14 am Post subject: |
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Like the teacher who faced the student shooting up the school, looked him in the eye and said to shoot him, the student couldn't, and didn't.
There's a difference between a person saying they will kill themselves and actually doing it. Who knows if the new bf actually thought he would or not...
But it's possible he thought it was an empty threat and pushed it to get the situation over faster and prove the old bf wouldn't do it.
I know plenty of people who have been depressed and said they want to kill themselves but haven�t. The question doesn�t seem to be whether the fire would kill him or not.
The question is would the boy really be stupid enough to put himself on fire over this? (Let�s not focus on the �stupid� part) |
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Benicio
Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet
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| Posted: Thu Jul 31, 2008 4:33 am Post subject: |
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What gets me is that they charged the boyfriend for tossing his lighter to the psycho idiot!
Yes, it may seem callous of him to taunt the guy, but I think it was an honest reaction- here's a psycho threatening your GF. How do you think you would react. It's obvious the guy wasn't there with a cool head and ready to "chat things out".
That they charged the boyfriend for aiding & abetting the sucide is ridiculous!
I'm glad he got off. |
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