Pennsylvania Man Set Ablaze by Friends for Being Gay

[metta]

Pennsylvania Man Set Ablaze by Friends for Being Gay

http://www.advocate.com/News/Daily_...ania_Man_Set_Ablaze_by_Friends_for_Being_Gay/

 

[palbert]

What on earth can I can one say? Disgusting. Bizarre. From the accounts on JUB all too common.

I feel so ineffectual in the face of this.

 

[metta]

^
so do you think this is a common practice among the drunks?

I have never been drunk before but I have been around friends that have been drunk and I don't remember one occasion where they thought of or attempted to catch someone on fire.

 

[maxpowr9]

drunk people do stupid and destructive things.

being drunk doesn't excuse it, but I wouldn't attribute any malicious action towards a gay man as evidence of a bias crime unless there's evidence to support it.

I remember hilariously my sophomore year in college. I got extremely lazy and grew a full beard. Some friends and me went on a ski trip to VT and I got trashed up there, passed out early and they shaved my head (rather poorly). So I basically looked like Wooly Willy. I just remember going back to my intro to accounting class that Friday and getting ragged on by my friends and professor in the class.

Lighting someone on fire? That is about as smart as betting someone $20 they wouldn't stick their arm in a pot of boiling water and the person actually does it.

 

[blotterboy]

drunk people do stupid and destructive things.

being drunk doesn't excuse it, but I wouldn't attribute any malicious action towards a gay man as evidence of a bias crime unless there's evidence to support it.

Shhhh you make too much sense.

 

[2243]

I won't deny I have some difficulty sympathizing with the victim. He isn't some college kid, he is almost 40. I get the feeling that maybe he was attempting to join in with the popular (maybe younger) crowd. Who knows really, but with that said, I don't think that just because this behavior might be typical of drunks in college that it should then lessen the credibility of the victims'/eyewitness' allegations or the seriousness of the situation.

 

[fetaby]

drunk people do stupid and destructive things.

being drunk doesn't excuse it, but I wouldn't attribute any malicious action towards a gay man as evidence of a bias crime unless there's evidence to support it.

You got it firestarter!

 

[Just_Believe18]

What a strange story... Clearly an odd friendship in the first place, if that's what his "friends" did to him.

 

[Críostóir]

He may have just come out to them.

And "he no longer counts them as friends" -- well DUHHH.

 

[Kulindahr]

Lighting someone on fire? That is about as smart as betting someone $20 they wouldn't stick their arm in a pot of boiling water and the person actually does it.

If it's just alcohol, it's not too bad -- not even close to boiling water.

If it started the cloth on fire -- nasty.