Man Sniffs Gasoline, Gets Tasered, Explodes Into Flames

3:53 am EST July 21st, 2009 | Uncategorized | 1 Comment

Um… what?

The man, identified by his family as 36-year-old Ronald Mitchell, was in critical condition at a Perth hospital in Western Australia state following Monday’s incident in Warburton, an Aboriginal community 950 miles northeast of Perth.

Western Australia police said they were responding to a complaint at a house when Mitchell ran outside the house carrying a cigarette lighter and a large plastic bottle containing what they believe was fuel. When he refused to stop running toward them, one officer Tasered him, police said in a media release.

The man was immediately engulfed in flames. The officer threw him to the ground and smothered the blaze with his hands, the statement said. Mitchell was charged with assault to prevent arrest and possession of a sniffing substance.

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One Response to “Man Sniffs Gasoline, Gets Tasered, Explodes Into Flames”

  1. American Citizen says:
    July 21, 2009 at 11:14 am

    I think Tasers are overused, and used unnecessarily, but if the short news blurb is right, this was probably a good use for a Taser. The police could have been justified in shooting him, so he wound up healthier Tasered. The guy had a Molotov cocktail, and they were used for destroying Panzers.