NM man set on fire after losing drinking bet

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

Source: Associated Press

LAS CRUCES, N.M. (AP) — A 47-year-old man's friends set his prosthetic leg on fire after he lost a drinking bet, causing him to suffer severe burns to his buttocks and lower back. Dona Ana County sheriff's deputies found the man naked on the side of U.S. Route 70 with his prosthetic leg in flames. Deputies learned that the man and his friends were drinking Monday and bet that whoever drank the least would be set on fire.

The man told investigators that at six beers, he drank the least, and agreed to let his friends set him on fire. He said his friends ignited his prosthetic leg, and the flames spread to his body.

The sheriff's office said the man took his clothes off because of the pain and his friends decided to take him to the hospital. But they got nervous and instead dropped him off on the side of the highway.

The man was taken to a Texas burn treatment center.



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With all the grim headlines lately it's sure nice to know good "friends" are still out there getting together who really know how to have a little fun.

[47of74]

1. It's not the end of civilization...

...but apparently you can see it from there!

[Ozymanithrax]

2. Interesting definition of "friends" they have in Texas. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

3. New Mexico.

[Ozymanithrax]

4. My mistake. But I have not friend in New Mexico, either. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

9. That area of New Mexico is essentially west Texas, tho...

[Warpy]

14. That part of the state is New Texico.

However, the whole state has world class drunks. I moved out here from Boston, where the gutters outside bars run with piss and vomit every weekend, but I've never seen drunks like the drunks out here.

Trust me, this kind of thing is NOT unusual. It just seldom makes the paper.

[Drunken Irishman]

18. I know New Mexico well...

We're just north of it in Utah. Been down there for the Utes Lobos football games.

Albucracky is a shithole.

[Lost4words]

45. Yea, Utah is all fun and games isnt it, that Prop 8 a nice thing

then the creeps with the multiple wives thats pretty nice also. Oh and that lifelong appointment of the Hatch of Orrin!

Go F yourself, you stinking drunk , BTW you would fit right in with all the drunk drivers we have here.

You are right everybody lives in a shithole except you!

[Drunken Irishman]

48. Touchy, touchy...

Albuquerque is a hole.

I've been there a few times. I like most of the state. Albuquerque, though, sucks ass. It's ugly, trashy and outside of only a handful of places within the city, there is nothing remotely interesting there.

Even their football stadium sucks.

Though I've always enjoyed The Pit (which was a dump too until the renovations).

[YDogg]

30. agreed.

[marybourg]

36. Warpy - Can you tell the story of the employees who blew up

the car dealership in Albuquerque?

[Hardrada]

38. Our town in Iowa has drunks but you will never see them.

Our rather over-policed community locks people up for a little staggering or even wobbling while on a bicycle (and then almost always finding "drug parephernalia" on them.) Or for standing in a yard holding an open can of beer.

[jdlh8894]

5. My Grandaddy told me

"Don't bet unless you can afford to lose"
He owned a pool hall when I was growing up. When I got good, he then told me (when I got cocky) "There's always somebody better than you!"

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

6. Well then....

...you surely must have a good pool hall story or two from your shooting days -- let's have one please.

Btw, sounds like your Grandad was a wise man.

[jdlh8894]

11. Yeah, a few

However,they probably wouldn't make Hollywood screneplays!LOL
Have seen my share of broken stick fights,weapons pulled,etc.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

12. Sounds like the stuff of good stories to me.

What would you have considered a decent night of shooting as far as dollar winnings goes?

[jdlh8894]

13. $1.00 more in your pocket

when you leave than what you came in with.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

17. Yes, I think you picked up some real wisdom from Grandad.

[jdlh8894]

21. I hope so. And thanks!

On a side note -- He chewed tobacco.The first time he saw me smoking(age 13),he said ,"Son,I never understood why people burn something that is good to eat!"LOL

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

25. .

:D

[slackmaster]

7. "Friends"?

:crazy:

[petronius]

8. And just the other day there was the story about the guy in a wheelchair whose friends

left him on the mountain chair. Clearly, the memo about the redefinition of 'friend' hasn't gotten to all of us... :shrug:

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

10. Well, if a friend on fire...

...is a friend in need, and a friend in need is a friend indeed, then by way of deductive reasoning it only follows that....

[timo]

15. texas bashing

everyone likes to do it till they need our burn centers!!

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

19. I live in Arlington, TX -- this wasn't t meant to bash my home state.

[islandmkl]

16. so...you are sitting around drinking, and decide whoever drinks the least...

what?...nobody had a gun, nobody had a knife, nobody wanted to bruise their knuckles...but hey, we got some matches, so what to do?

SET THE LOSER ON FIRE!!...goddam Darwin is about to award a joint reward for Evolution-retarding Group Behavior, non-political (Teabaggers have the traveling trophy in the political category)...

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

22. Hey, if you can't...

...set a friend on fire then who canya?

Maybe if that prosthetic leg had been hollowed out he could have hidden a tube run down through his shirt to it and had capacity for more than six beers, and not lost the bet. These are the kind of friends that inspire this kind of invention and creativity, and as you know, that's what makes the world go round.

[Robb]

33. You know the old saying...

Build a man a fire, you keep him warm for the night.

Set a man on fire, you keep him warm for the rest of his life. ;)

[struggle4progress]

40. .

:blush:

I'm really embarrassed to laugh in this thread, but I haven't heard that one before

:rofl:

I'm stealing that. I'm gonna use it everywhere. It's gonna be a common saying across the US

[pinboy3niner]

42. I've been to a VN vet reunion where a prosthetic leg was filled with beer...

...and passed around for all to share. The leg was volunteered by an attendee, who unstrapped it and filled it up. It was a 3/4 leg, and it must have been designed for a capacity of at least 10 beers... :)

[smirkymonkey]

50. I can't even get my mind around the stupidity of this.

WTF?? The world is just getting sicker every day.

[Jefferson23]

20. What great buddies he has, inspirational I tell ya. n/t

[Socal31]

23. "If you were on fire, I wouldn't piss on you to put it out."

They must have really not like that guy.

Also, the story does not sit with me. The guy gets lit on fire and burned. His friends put him in the car, and drop him off on the side of the road.

The story says the leg was still burning when they showed up. So it was on fire for how long? And it was still burning while he was in the car?


Shens.

[sandnsea]

24. Something else I forgot to teach my kids

Don't ride in a trunk, don't choke yourself doing sex, don't set yourself on fire during drinking games.

Who knew.

[fishwax]

26. great friends -- lighting him on fire I can see, but then just leaving him on the highway?

:wtf:

I hope he's okay. (And gets different friends.)

[Prometheus Bound]

27. "he agreed to let his friends set him on fire"

That's the one that gets me dizziest out of all the strange parts of the story.

[Mr_Jefferson_24]

29. "Lighting him on fire I can see..."

Alright, Fishwax (if that is your real name), I don't want you to take this personally, but you are officially crossed off my potential DU drinking "friends" list.

I hope you understand -- no hard feelings.

[Renew Deal]

28. I have an idea!

:banghead:

[BigBearJohn]

31. oh, those darned buddies of GW...

[unblock]

32. the doctor was quoted as saying, "george, i TOLD you not to go drinking with cheney!

and what happened to your leg?"

[bertman]

34. "With all the grim headlines lately it's sure nice to know good "friends"

are still out there getting together who really know how to have a little fun."


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:



Gives new meaning to the term "gittin' lit", don't it??


B-)

[Beam Me Up]

35. Jeebitz. And people say pot makes you stupid. n/t

[al bupp]

46. Funny, that's exactly what I thought after reading this! n/t

[NBachers]

37. "You only go around once in this life, so you have to grab for all the gusto you can get"

[BobTheSubgenius]

39. I remember reading about two drinking buddies playing catch..

...with a live rattlesnake. That ended badly, too.

[liquid diamond]

41. What kind of fucking "game" is that? Damn. n/t

[SemperEadem]

43. dude!! you and your dumb friends! How old are you? 47? dear god in heaven

[Vinca]

44. This, in a nutshell,is how Sarah Palin becomes POTUS.

The dumb, the dumb, the dumb, the dumb, the dumb.

[feslen]

47. why can't we have police deport idiots like him?

ahh air is wasted on the stupid!

[jaksavage]

49. Wait I have one

two drunk guys shooting apples of their heads with a hunting bow. Picture on the front page of the Denver post, x ray with arrow in eye socket. The dude lived.

And then there was the guys at the cement plant in madras oregon, decided to pour wet conctrete in ones ass to make a concrete turd, no really this is true. He showed up in the ER to have it removed and his ass sewed shut, forever. My friend was the attending nurse on call.

Males do some stupid stuff when left unattended.
Natural selection?

[KamaAina]

51. Guess he really did have a hollow leg

:P

[Blue_Tires]

54. well played!

:rofl:

[dmallind]

52. SIX beers!

I mean come on he's obviously missing some body mass to absorb tha alcohol but nobody normal is drunk enough after six beers surely to either a)"lose" a bet like that and even more so b)agree to being set on fire.

Unless those six beers were Dogfish Head 120s in gallon jugs methinks there is a "after a day of heavy drinking already" missing from the start of this story.

[lapislzi]

53. Words fail me.

Naked? On fire? Agreed to?

There is such a boatload of teh crazy in that story, I don't know where to begin.

[Liberal_in_LA]

55. nice friends...leaving him by the side of the road.