Japanese cops = NOT Smarter than a 5th Grader

TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese man who had doused himself with kerosene in front of police died of burns after asking to smoke during interrogation, police and reports said Monday. 
 
Hifumi Kubota, 45, was taken for questioning to a police station in the central Japanese city of Nagoya on Saturday after a woman who was living with him told police that he was acting violently.
When officers came to his house, "he poured kerosene over himself in front of police," a police spokesman said.
Kubota refused to change his kerosene-soaked clothes at the police station and asked to smoke during questioning, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun and other Japanese media.
Despite no-smoking rules in the building, a police official gave him a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. When Kubota stood up, his right knee was ablaze and he quickly turned into a fireball, the reports said.
The police spokesman declined to give further details, but said Kubota was rushed to hospital where he died Sunday due to burns over a wide area of his body

 
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idiot...see smoking kills

i'm not gonna laugh, i'm not gonna laugh...
 
r.i.p.

Wow... Ignorance at it's best!

the only thing that can top this off like the proverbial cherry on top, is for some police department employees to sue over second hand smoke violations....... (and I will laugh!) :smiley-rofl:

Actually he played the cops pretty well.  I give the guy credit..yes, he's an idiot, but he sure fooled the cops good!  I could never set myself on fire...ouch.  That and drowning would suck.

so he purposely asked for the ciggs to light himself on fire?

[QUOTE=JOee;155883]so he purposely asked for the ciggs to light himself on fire?[/QUOTE]
Failure isn't an option for much of the Japanese population.  If they're going to do something...they do it.  The minor delays in the train schedule are a testament to that.

[QUOTE=kaizer;155638]Wow... Ignorance at it's best![/QUOTE]

+1 wow...


and yeah joe he set himself on fire, the japanese are literally very fond of having respect for themselves and there ideology on having power its nuts... if theres a scandal we rarely hear about it un like enron and martha stewart's shit... he rather of killed himself then have a bad word on his family's name... thats how i see it