Man sets himself on fire at University of California-Berkeley, police investigating

A man set himself on fire on the campus of the University of California, Berkeley on Wednesday afternoon, according to campus police.

The University of California Police Department (UCPD) said they received a call at roughly 4:17 p.m. about a person who was on fire.

The reported self-immolation took place on Sproul Plaza, the center of the campus.

The man reportedly sustained critical burns and was transported to a local hospital by Berkeley Fire Department officials. A female bystander who attempted to help him sustained unknown injuries.

An eyewitness said that the man's clothing was completely burned off, according to The Berkeley Scanner. The burned man was reportedly yelling and moaning.

Bystanders attempted to put the fire out by fanning their jackets on the man, who was eventually assisted by police officers and firefighters.

UCPD said in a statement to Fox News Digital that mental health professionals were on the scene.

Man sets himself on fire at University of California-Berkeley, police investigating

A man reportedly set himself on fire in Sproul Plaza at the University of California, Berkeley. The man was critically injured and taken to a hospital as police investigate the situation.

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Video of self-immolation: https://twitter.com/rawsalerts/status/1631122038051012608?s=42

https://archive.ph/wip/0Uyjm

 

[Bonesjones]

If you intentionally set yourself on fire, you get what's coming to you. You've decided to die in a way that is going to suck the whole time and if you survive its gonna be even worse.

 

[Breadbassket]

Video of the self-immolation from Twitter:

 

[Matt Damon]

Also, fuck all the bystanders just standing there watching him dance around in flames.

I'm not going to risk my own health for some lunatic who sets himself on fire any more than I'm going to try to heroically disarm someone holding a gun to his own head.

 

[ZazietheBeast]

Seeing that this is Commiefornia, there's a good chance the immolated is just a hobo who had a little too much drugs in his system. They're everywhere in this forsaken land.

 

[William Tyndale]

Seeing that this is Commiefornia, there's a good chance the immolated is just a hobo who had a little too much drugs in his system. They're everywhere in this forsaken land.

Everywhere - 1.

 

[Camel joe]

I'm not going to risk my own health for some lunatic who sets himself on fire any more than I'm going to try to heroically disarm someone holding a gun to his own head.

Coward

 

[Matt Damon]

Coward

Sure. Enjoy the serious burns that will be a perpetual reminder of the time you failed to save a likely drug-addled nutcase who wanted to die anyway.

 

[Crex Crex]

Global warming did this.

 

[GatorAids]

Could have done us all a favor and barred the doors and burned down that wretched 'university' with all the commies inside before comitting high celcius sudoku.

 

[Counterfeit Obol]

He has gone insan-o.
He lusts for volcano.

 

[Foghorns at a Funeral]

I guess his carrier was up in smoke. Shame really, he could have lit a match to future greatness. But i guess he had no gas left in the tank. Should have lit a fire in his belly.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I've always found this morbidly hilarious. I'm going to kill myself in one of the worst ways imaginable to protest people who I claim hate me. You're just doing their job for free.

I actually understand why someone might do it. If you are gonna An Hero you only have one shot, one opportunity, to seize everything you e- the moment and do it you would want to make it an spectacle. Especially if it is some sort of protest.

 

[Johnny Salami]

I'm not going to risk my own health for some lunatic who sets himself on fire any more than I'm going to try to heroically disarm someone holding a gun to his own head.

Yeah if you watch the video you can see some of the fire almost jump on a girl

Like the guy did it to himself, nobody but himself to blame

 

[William Tyndale]

Yeah if you watch the video you can see some of the fire almost jump on a girl

Like the guy did it to himself, nobody but himself to blame

At the point you light yourself on fire I’m not sure you really even deserve help. Not to mention you’re going to be living life on hard mode if you survive. Just let the poor bastard die.

Sure. Enjoy the serious burns that will be a perpetual reminder of the time you failed to save a likely drug-addled nutcase who wanted to die anyway.

On the other hand maybe you can start a gofundme and trick the normies into paying you 100k for pretending to care about a junkie.

 

[KiwiFuzz]

Ooof, I missed that the guy didn't die.

A man set himself on fire on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza

The man was hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns over most of his body. Two bystanders who tried to put out the fire were also injured.

www.berkeleyside.org

https://archive.ph/wip/FXpNX

 

[Road Work Ahead]

Ooof, I missed that the guy didn't die.

A man set himself on fire on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza

The man was hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns over most of his body. Two bystanders who tried to put out the fire were also injured.

www.berkeleyside.org

https://archive.ph/wip/FXpNX

Poor sucker. If I ever end up on fire, I hope someone does me a solid and just shoots me in the head.

 

[Lunatic Fringe]

Ooof, I missed that the guy didn't die.

A man set himself on fire on UC Berkeley's Sproul Plaza

The man was hospitalized with second- and third-degree burns over most of his body. Two bystanders who tried to put out the fire were also injured.

www.berkeleyside.org

https://archive.ph/wip/FXpNX

...yet.

Infection often kills people with burns.

Or he'll live and then really wish he'd died.

 

[I Do Not Post]

He sets himself on fire! And then even worse, continues lettin' him be on fire! I swear, if that ain't the most outrageous thing that he has ever done against himself.

 

[Damocles_Sword]

If you see someone on fire killing them is the only real mercy you can give them. This dude is gonna linger in pure agony for months.

 

[The handsome tard]

Kiwi Farms made him do it.

You joke but I legit can see people do these violent things at random, blame the farms and the media gladly using that as ammo against us even if there is no evidence they actually mean it and arent just doing it just to spread more social chaos (like most shooters do)