What a mess...

[70 StangMan]

YORKTOWN, Va. -- A Chicago man who quickly accelerated in a sport utility vehicle with a cable around his neck decapitated himself after a domestic dispute in Yorktown, authorities said Tuesday.

York-Poquoson Sheriff Danny Diggs said a deputy responding to a call of a domestic disturbance Tuesday was taking a statement from the man's ex-wife when another deputy driving by noticed an SUV pulling a utility trailer that was on fire. Authorities say the man started the fire.

A firefighter noticed a cable around the man's neck that was attached to a tree. When deputies tried to get the man to exit the SUV, he accelerated and was pulled from the vehicle and decapitated, they say. The SUV kept going for about 150 yards.

Diggs said he arrived to a grisly scene, adding the cable was of the type that could be used to hoist an automobile engine.

"Nobody has ever heard of anything like this," Diggs said. "It's a really bizarre incident."

Diggs said the man and his ex-wife had quarreled over the man's living arrangements.

"He was looking to relocate from Chicago to this area, and he wanted her to do more than she was willing to do," Diggs said.

The sheriff said he was unsure how long the couple had been divorced. He said they have two school-age children who were not at home at the time.

Diggs said officials aren't releasing the man's name because they don't publicly identify suicide victims. However, officials said the man was 46 and from Chicago.

[silverblueBP]

Now his nickname is Squirt.

[blue65coupe]

Well, that solved the living arrangements. 




Let me go ahead and throw in that I feel sorry for the kids in a situation like this...but it stops there....unlike that SUV...which continued for another 150 yards....must've been a big neighborhood.  Wow, 150 yards, that's probably like a mile.  Imagine meeting that vehicle head on, or headless on.      Like in the other thread about safety, never know who (or who isn't) coming at ya.

[AtlantaSteve]

I hate it when that happens!

[AtlantaSteve]

Let me go ahead and throw in that I feel sorry for the kids in a situation like this...but it stops there....unlike that SUV...which continued for another 150 yards....must've been a big neighborhood.  Wow, 150 yards, that's probably like a mile.  Imagine meeting that vehicle head on, or headless on.      Like in the other thread about safety, never know who (or who isn't) coming at ya.

I *KNOW* your math's not that bad :)

I'm with you on not feeling bad for the guy.  There have been suicide cases where I did feel bad for the "self-victim" but only because they were in a bad place they could have got out of, and were just too short sighted to see their way out...Depression is big in my family, and it's a bitch.   This guy was just some dumbass who got in a pissing contest with his wife and came up with the most retarded suicide system I've ever heard of.  At least he didn't hurt any innocents...as he well could have.

[70 StangMan]

  This guy was just some dumbass who got in a pissing contest with his wife and came up with the most retarded suicide system I've ever heard of. 

Yea.......he really lost his head  (ba' dump bump)

[70_Fastback]

Yea.......he really lost his head  (ba' dump bump)

LoL! 

[sgtjunior]

Now his nickname is Squirt.

Ichabod

[Fast68back]

How many of us have lifted an engine with a cable?

"Diggs said he arrived to a grisly scene, adding the cable was of the type that could be used to hoist an automobile engine."

[Gigantopithecus]

Because just shooting yourself or jumping off a bridge is so passé.

Never understood suicide, never will.

[66gt350]

I *KNOW* your math's not that bad :)

His math isn't bad...he just can't judge distance.  He keeps telling his wife that this is six inches |                  |

 

[blue65coupe]

  He keeps telling his wife that this is six inches |                  |

 

It helps when your wife is worse at math than you.  Now I realize why she wanted lasik.

[Horseplay]

Never understood suicide, never will.

You've obviously never met my wife.   


Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.

[silverblueBP]

Suicide I don't understand, but spousal homicide...THAT I understand. Don't condone it, but I understand it.










I keed.

[RustyRed]

You've obviously never met my wife.   

LOL!

[DEL65]

The story reminds me of this scene from Raising Arizona

See 6:17 - 6:41 and 8:52

[Midlife]

You've obviously never met my wife.   


Thank you, thank you. I'll be here all week.

How'd you get married to my wife without me knowing about it?

[70 StangMan]

You've obviously never met my wife.   

And here I thought I was alone.................................  

[crustycurmudgeon]

How many of us have lifted an engine with a cable?

"Diggs said he arrived to a grisly scene, adding the cable was of the type that could be used to hoist an automobile engine."

I have an engine lifting cable.

Frank