Homeless guy set on fire

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas (AP) -- Police asked local TV stations to air a surveillance video showing a homeless man who was set ablaze flailing his arms and running in a circle as he tried to extinguish the flames.

Police were looking for up to eight men who participated in the attack outside an agency that helps the homeless. The victim, Lucas Adama Wiser, 21, was sleeping on a bench when he was set on fire Tuesday, and remained hospitalized Thursday with third-degree burns.

"I don't know if this was a joke that they thought they were playing on somebody or what their mindset was, but it was a pretty sick joke," Police Lt. Rocky Vipond said. "We're hoping someone might recognize that vehicle and possibly the group of guys."

The surveillance video at Corpus Christi Metro Ministries showed a dark sport utility vehicle and a smaller vehicle pulling up to Wiser and setting him on fire.

Police could not identify license plate numbers from the video.


http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/Southwest/06/17/man.set.ablaze.ap/index.html


(i couldn't find the video)

If they catch the people who did that I believe an "eye for an eye" punishment will suffice. I wonder how much they'll like being set on fire when they're sleeping. :rolleyes:

:banghead:

Nail them to the the chair and light it up :angryfire

People are gross. Has anyone heard of that movie "bumfights" where guys pay homeless guys food, alcohol or money, to do stupid things for money and video tape it?

"The tape shows a man setting his hair on fire; a man who smokes crack and then defecates on the sidewalk; a man who pulls out a tooth with a pair of pliers; and "Rufus the Stunt Bum," a man who voluntarily rams his head through fast-food restaurant signs, jumps off a building into a Dumpster and rides a shopping cart down a steep hill. "

And of course a homeless man is suing the makers of the video...
"When you're drinking for 20 years as I have, when you don't have a beer in your hand you would do anything to get one," said Mr Brennan, who has "Bumfights" tattooed on his forehead, arms and belly.

:banghead: Nail them to the the chair
By the balls
and light it up :angryfire
Nice and big, roast some doggies and marshmellows

Step on their balls with sharpened cleats.

:banghead:

Nail them to the the chair and light it up :angryfire
:1: Old sparky has been turned on here in Huntsville in some time. I think this calls for the return of 'the chair'.

i was just gettin ready to post this...it seems like my home town is on the map now..first CNN comes out saying we are the 4th sweatiest city in America , now this. Bet the rest of the world thinks were a bunch if winners now :disappoin

homeless guys getting set on fire, not funny. I would pay to see some people from hollywood runnin around ablazin:) I guess thats what fear factor is suppossed to be for. just not the same

Sick fucks, eye-for-an-eye mentality definitely should be applied here.

wat fuckin assholes

Getting burned like that has to be one of the worst things in the world to experience. Someone should go into the arson's house and light his bed on fire while he sleeps to see how he likes it.

Damn thats harsh, peolpe are stupid....

That is sick and wrong. You shouldn't do that to a homeless person. They are a human being too. Its pretty sad that they can not find out who did this to him.

I think something has to be done about homeless people in our nation (think Taxi Driver), but I won't get into that. I don't think they deserve any of that, and as Dayna mentioned, Bumfights is one of the lowest forms of human action on the planet. I think one video has a guy tieing up a bum and then spraying paint in his eyes and mouth. This is just as bad as that stupid stakeboarder, what the hell is going on?

They came in a dark SUV. Of course they're assholes, the "smaller vehicle" was probably a BMW. :)

In our city I remember that a few years ago, we had a problem with homeless people being found decapitated, never found out who did it, or what their motive was.

here's the video

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/06/18/national/main624797.shtml

Only you can prevent bumfires...

you know, i posted to this forum this morning, and my post has magically dissapeared, so I will say it again, where the hell is darwin when you need him.

Give me an aluminum bat and an address...I'll fill in for Darwin.

/\ I'll help....