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Posted: 5/7/2003 11:44:45 AM EDT
[url]http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/43351|oddlyenough|05-07-2003::09:25|reuters.html[/url]

Man Slices Own Head Off in Supermarket Suicide

May 7, 9:16 am ET

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African man died trying to cut his own head off with a butcher's band saw in a major supermarket, police said on Wednesday.

Superintendent Jay Naicker said the Shoprite Checkers store in Richards Bay had been ready to close on Monday when the man wandered in and headed for the meat department. "He just walked in, went to the band saw machine and switched it on," Naicker told Reuters. "Apparently he knew what he was doing. He put his neck to the blade and it cut about half way through before he fell to the floor."

Naicker said the man, later identified as 31-year-old Emmanuel Gumbi, was pronounced dead at the scene.

He said police had turned up no motive for the suicide, which stunned staff and shoppers at the store in northern Kwazulu-Natal province.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 11:46:43 AM EDT
[#1]
Don't you wonder if the store is going to buy a new meat cutting saw, or just clean it and keep using it?


Eeeeeeeewww.  
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 11:47:38 AM EDT
[#2]
Thats messed up.  I wonder if they switched the blade before they cut the next slab of meat.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 11:54:11 AM EDT
[#3]
Man had a bad day and lost his head!
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:02:59 PM EDT
[#4]
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Man had a bad day and lost his head!
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I hate it when that happens.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:05:46 PM EDT
[#5]
[puke]
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:07:21 PM EDT
[#6]
I wonder what was going through his mind?
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:12:36 PM EDT
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I wonder what was going through his mind?
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I think they said it was a band saw blade.
[lol]
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:13:23 PM EDT
[#8]
Quoted:
[url]http://news.excite.com/odd/article/id/43351|oddlyenough|05-07-2003::09:25|reuters.html[/url]

Man Slices Own Head Off in Supermarket Suicide

May 7, 9:16 am ET

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - A South African man died trying to cut his own head off with a butcher's band saw in a major supermarket, police said on Wednesday.

Naicker said the man, later identified as 31-year-old Emmanuel Gumbi, was pronounced dead at the scene.

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Maybe he was despondant after Poky left him? [peep]

Later,
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:15:32 PM EDT
[#9]
I wouldn't buy the special for at least a week.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:18:59 PM EDT
[#10]
Superintendent Jay Naicker said the Shoprite Checkers store in Richards Bay had been ready to close on Monday when the man wandered in and [red]headed[/red] for the meat department. "He just walked in, went to the band saw machine and switched it on," Naicker told Reuters.
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That's cold!
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:32:24 PM EDT
[#11]
That man definately is not going to ge a'head' in life!

Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:41:25 PM EDT
[#12]
Alright, stop butchering Airwolf's thread.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:42:10 PM EDT
[#13]
Quoted:
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I wonder what was going through his mind?
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I think they said it was a band saw blade.
[lol]
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*snicker*
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 12:45:16 PM EDT
[#14]
Special price on head cheese startong tomarrow.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 1:01:05 PM EDT
[#15]
I have to admire the guy. At least he didn't take the easy way out. I've heard of alot of different ways to commit suicide but this is a first.
Two thumbs up for originality.
Two thumbs down for thinking there was no other way out of whatever hell he was in.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 1:10:47 PM EDT
[#16]
They really need to put a 5 day waiting period on bandsaws!!!![:)]"Would you like that thick or thin sliced???:)[chainsawkill][chainsawkill][chainsawkill][chainsawki[chainsawkill]ll][chain[chainsawkill]sawkill][chainsawkill][chainsawkill]
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 1:10:58 PM EDT
[#17]
Hey, [b]ANYBODY[/b] can use a rope, or a gun

This guy was [b]CREATIVE[/b]



[:D]
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 1:20:00 PM EDT
[#18]
I bet he got hung up on his vertebrae.

Damn!  That must have hurt!
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 1:34:58 PM EDT
[#19]
He came, sawed, and succeeded.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 1:39:50 PM EDT
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Alright, stop butchering Airwolf's thread.
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[LOLabove]
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 1:54:21 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 5/7/2003 4:31:38 PM EDT
[#22]
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Naicker said the man, later identified as 31-year-old Emmanuel Gumbi, was pronounced dead at the scene.
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[eddiemurphyI'm Gumbi, dammit![/eddiemurphy][/s]

Sigh...kudos to Raptorsys.
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 4:46:48 PM EDT
[#23]
I know, I mean I knew a guy in WI that tied a rope to a tree put it through his truck window, & around his neck, & then stomped on the gas pedal, rrrriiiipppp!
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 4:55:41 PM EDT
[#24]
THE HEADS WILL ROLL!!![ROFL]
Damn, I don't think that's what his friend meant when he told him the cure for depression is to go get some head at the local supermarket...
Link Posted: 5/7/2003 4:57:11 PM EDT
[#25]
Damn! A meat saw would not be my first choice.

[%|]

Link Posted: 5/7/2003 5:54:02 PM EDT
[#26]
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I can pretty much guarantee you that they're just going to sanitize/clean it and keep on using it...  I used to be the guy who cleans up the saws, slicers, and the whole meat department at a grocery store...  
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Buddy of mine in AL used to do that. Got in trouble a bunch of times for taunting the live lobsters in front of customers.
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