Sheriff Says Spontaneous Human Combustion Kills Man
Source: KFSM (CBS Affiliate)
Sheriff Ron Lockhart said his office is investigating whether a Sequoyah County, Okla., man died after spontaneously bursting into flames.
This is a case that Ive never seen before, said Lockhart.
The sheriff said 65-year-old Danny Vanzandts death might be a rare case of spontaneous human combustion.
Read more: http://5newsonline.com/2013/02/18/spontaneous-human-combustion-kills-sequoyah-county-man-sheriff-says/
Certainly a weird one....
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,869 posts)Very strange - you hear about these things every once in awhile and I don't know if anybody has an explanation.
Lydia Leftcoast
(48,217 posts)Apparently what really happens is that an extremely overweight person dies of a heart attack or massive stroke while smoking or handling a flame, the cigarette or candle or whatever falls beneath their clothes, so that they smoulder, fueled by their body fat. They don't spontaneously burst into flame for no reason while still alive.
kestrel91316
(51,666 posts)in this weird phenomenon. Alcohol is flammable. These people could be really soused at the time they catch on fire.
AsahinaKimi
(20,776 posts)They more or less proved it scientifically it was not physically possible for a body to do that..
struggle4progress
(118,356 posts)kickysnana
(3,908 posts)However there was a case where a professional man's leg caught on fire, twice with his wife in the bed next to him and nobody was smoking.
Discover magazine just had an article where a semi-retired scientist was doing some freelancing on things he always wondered about and he found that a certain radioactive isotope decays intermittently and nobody could quite figure out why. He looked and when the experiments were done the decay was seasonal and when he looked further they corresponded with sun eruptions. Then he saw that slowing started a very short time before we could detect the explosion on the sun so he set up an experiment where he was going to try the next big explosion and as it happened he he was opposite the sun, it was night and he was able to give the number of hours 96. hat there was/is, which would be wonderful because every 200 years a mega explosion happens that would take out most technology. The last time was about 1865 and it totally destroyed the telegraph system that was running at the time. This would give us time to unhook, shield and otherwise protect the electrical grid. The estimated time to repair a an event similar to the 1865 one was 10 years. It would affect almost everything. (Note to Bloomberg not so fast on getting rid of the libraries). Whatever it was came though the earth. We are also due for the 100 year, half strength eruption, one that took out a lot of grid in the last century.
Anyway we had a friend who grew up in the depression who was one of us read anything and everything. He passed away about 1988. His idea of the non-smoking incidents was that whatever was taking out the electrical grid was also starting these fires in people.
Then there are the operating room fires. Some of it is oxygen leaks but I would guess if you had a pool of methane in your abdomen etc and you it with a cauterizer that would make a pretty good explosion.
It is late so don't take the dates etc as facts. The article wasn't up the day the magazine came out but it may be now. I am not going to worry to much about this. A scientist in England is usually right says that we should be headed into an ice age in about 2030 and the catastrophic change could come in as little as 10 years. That and the weight of the ice shifting may change the earths orbit/wobble, tectonic pressures, Yellowstone super volcano is overdue and we are way overdue for a polarization shift. That is if we don't burn off our atmosphere before 2030.
But we all have to die sometime and most of this there is little we can do about anyway. Makes me wonder about the man-made silicone part they found imbedded in millennial old rock in the desert in the US. How many times have we got this far only to have things break apart? (On this planet)
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Tho' Dickens uses it in "Bleak House" and it makes a great literary device.... Spontaneous Combustion is not real.
oldhippydude
(2,514 posts)Spitfire of ATJ
(32,723 posts)Musta sold his soul to the devil and he came to collect.
foo_bar
(4,193 posts)triplepoint
(431 posts)Life imitating art......
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Rosa Luxemburg
(28,627 posts)there was probably a cause
DeSwiss
(27,137 posts)...this phenomenon must be explainable in conventional physics terms that we supposedly understand, those explanations have failed to discover how temperatures can be reached which are sufficient to completely obliterate and convert flesh, organs, cartilage and bone to nothing but ash, and yet still barely singe the furniture the person is sitting on or their surroundings.
- Mother Nature cares nothing for our explanations. She just is......
K&R
AlbertCat
(17,505 posts)Nope.
They have shown the temps to reach high enough degrees. Easily I might add.
SC is not real.
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)Part One:
The additional four parts are on YouTube.
harmonicon
(12,008 posts)That stupid motherfucker should be fired yesterday.
UnrepentantLiberal
(11,700 posts)I wonder how many ufo abductions there have been in that town?
Ian David
(69,059 posts)Earth_First
(14,910 posts)now spontaneous human combustions?
What does it all MEAN, maaaan?!
Maine-ah
(9,902 posts)getting oil on your clothes can cause them to catch on fire. Happens with the fishermen up here once and a while. Washing clothes with oil on them, then putting them in the dryer - then you fold them, or even leave the load of laundry piled in a basket. The combination of the two can cause the clothes to start smoldering and catch on fire. I've seen it happen with a basket of towels from a restaurant I worked at. The towels were greasy from the kitchen - they were not washed at a high enough temp to get the grease out, so when they went into the dryer it heated up the grease, and then folded after they came out of the dryer. Found the laundry basket with smoke coming out of it.
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)thought shooting it was a good idea.
Killed a young boy fishing with his grandfather.
I have low regard for the IQ and skill sets of our sheriffs and deputies.
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)into flames. His body was found and the house didn't burn.