His Prosthetic Set on Fire After Losing Drinking Game

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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.
Darwin award? Assuming those flames reached the right parts. :rolleyes:

Added note: Maybe he needs to get himself a pit bull to save him from himself?
 
File under: You know you're a redneck if...
 
This story is like a scene straight out of The Deer Hunter. Who in their right mind enters into a contest where winning is lighting one of your friends on fire, and losing is getting torched yourself?

They set their drunk and handicapped friend on fire, and then these idiots went a drivin'. Then they felt bad and decided to take him to the hospital. Well, if the sheriff found him roadside naked with his leg in flames, that could only mean there was a short period of time where his friends were driving flaming naked man to the hospital with said leg either burning in the car or hanging out the window. Who got nervous... the designated driver?

This story never happened, of course. If the victim knew the assailants as friends, they would never have left him roadside aflame. Friends don't let friends drink and burn. If they were not friends, they would have made certain he was dead before driving away.
 
Loving the friends getting nervous, so dropping him off on the highway. Commitment!

Should have drank more really, then he wouldn't have been set on fire!
 
This story never happened, of course. If the victim knew the assailants as friends, they would never have left him roadside aflame.
Now, now. If you read the story, you'll see that the friends drove him after he'd stopped burning and was burned, not while he was still aflame. That would have been reckless. They probably dropped him off on the side of the road because they didn't like him smoking in their car.

Should have drank more really, then he wouldn't have been set on fire!
Quite right. He has only himself to blame.
 
I'm not buying it. It takes more than six beers to agree to be set on fire.
 
I'm not buying it. It takes more than six beers to agree to be set on fire.
Maybe they were big beers? Also, I believe that speedy consumption might have been involved.
 
I'm not buying it. It takes more than six beers to agree to be set on fire.

I think the agreement was made before the drinking started and, after he lost, maybe he didn't take it seriously. Six 16 ounce cans of beer would be three quarts.
 
Still couldn't they have lit on fire a different part of his body? Surely they figured a plastic prosthetic (which I assume is what it was made of) would burn and melt? Those things can't be cheap.

Still I suppose it's better then burning off his working leg?
 
Now, now. If you read the story, you'll see that the friends drove him after he'd stopped burning and was burned, not while he was still aflame. That would have been reckless. They probably dropped him off on the side of the road because they didn't like him smoking in their car.

Still, he would have had to at least been smoldering while in transit to the hospital in order to be in flames when sheriff's deputies found him. My bet has it they strapped him to the roof of the car, then they got scared when high speed winds reignited their drinking buddy. It's hard to pick up chicks with that kind of distraction going on overhead.
 
Still, he would have had to at least been smoldering while in transit to the hospital in order to be in flames when sheriff's deputies found him. My bet has it they strapped him to the roof of the car, then they got scared when high speed winds reignited their drinking buddy. It's hard to pick up chicks with that kind of distraction going on overhead.

The guys on fire, definite babe magnet if you ask me! Maybe they were actually jealous of all the attention his smoldering leg was getting. They just couldn't take the heat!
 
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