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Man saws off his head in supermarket
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:40 pm
by Amanzi
:o
A 31-year-old man sawed his head off in full view of staff and customers at a supermarket in Richards Bay, northern KwaZulu-Natal, on Monday afternoon, police said.
Superintendent Jay Naiker said Emmanuel Gumbi walked into the butchery section of Shoprite branch, switched on an electric meat saw, positioned his neck near the blade and sawed off his head.
He said Gumbi did not leave a suicide note.
Naiker said Gumbi's family said they had been shocked by the incident because he never showed signs of depression. - Sapa
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:43 pm
by GulfBreezer
NO WAY!!!! UNBELIEVABLE!!!
Where is this place??
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:49 pm
by mf_dolphin
Ouch! That had to leave a mark!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 12:55 pm
by Guest
wonder how many people got sick in the store?
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:01 pm
by Amanzi
Gulf, It is in a town just North of my home city in South Africa.
Ticka, I am quite sure a few people got sick! I cant even imagine seeing something like that.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:09 pm
by bfez1
How horrible. The poor onlookers.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 1:29 pm
by Lindaloo
YIKES!!!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:31 pm
by pojo
Dude...that's gonna hurt.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 2:49 pm
by ColdFront77
Yikes, Ouch....!!! :o :o :o
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:14 pm
by TexasStooge
OMG!!!!!!!!
That guy IS suicidal!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:17 pm
by Miss Mary
Truly a bizarre story. How awful if you saw this. Yikes - it's enough that I would become a full fledged vegetarian after seeing something like that. I could never look at the butcher section again in the same way.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:26 pm
by TexasStooge
I hpoe I'm not too afraid to go to the butcher section after what happen.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:29 pm
by Miss Mary
TexasStooge, I'm already 75% Vegetarian anyway, this would just push me over the edge!
Still, very shocking story. At first you think this can't be true - why didn't someone stop him, turn off the saw, then it's so bizarre and given our news today, you begin to think yeah it's possible. Sad world we live in.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 3:32 pm
by ColdFront77
He had to know what he was doing. Just the act of putting your own neck near the machine. ---> :o
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:06 pm
by JQ Public
Ewwwwwwwwwww! At first when you said head and supermarket i was thinking lettuce and cabbages not the real McKoy!!!!
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 4:19 pm
by coriolis
I will remain speechless.
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 6:10 pm
by azsnowman
Being a meat cutter for some 20 years, I can't EVEN imagine, I cut my left index finger tip off on the band saw, saved it, packed it on ice and they sewed the tip back on.
We had a gentleman a few years back in Phoenix throw himself into a chipper/shredder, tried to take his wife in with him, she escaped unharmed!
Dennis
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 6:31 pm
by mf_dolphin
That's one way to get a buzz cut! Maybe he was just having a bad hair day
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 6:53 pm
by azsnowman
Would that be a *flat top*?
Dennis
Posted: Tue May 06, 2003 6:54 pm
by coriolis
Now you've crossed the line. Let's not all lose our heads here.