mock_the_stupid: Killed By Stupid

stufro (

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mock_the_stupid,
@ 2008-09-25 00:32:00

Killed By Stupid
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1059512/Road-rage-woman-burned-death-ramming-rival-motorist-revving-engine-car-went-flames.html

For the link-phobic:
"A road rage driver was burned to death after ramming another vehicle and setting her own car on fire by furiously revving her engine, it emerged today.

Serena Sutton-Smith, 54, had deliberately driven into the back of Paula Small's stationary car and then refused to get out of her Vauxhall Nova as she sat with her foot on the accelerator.

Sparks caused when a front tyre disintegrated and the wheel dug into the road, ignited brake fluid in her engine and set the vehicle alight.

The victim was so overcome with anger she refused to get out of her burning car and even threatened a would-be rescuer who tried to persuade her."

More in the actual article.

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	grace_om 2008-10-02 03:48 am UTC (link)
	Well, at least she's a shoo-in for a Darwin award. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	syntonic_comma 2008-10-02 05:09 am UTC (link)
	No, at 54 she's not likely to have (more?) kids. The Darwin Award is all about people removing themselves from the gene pool before they reproduce. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	jenny0 2008-10-02 03:55 pm UTC (link)
	That's exactly what I was going to say, Darwin's Chainsaw of Natural Selection in action! (Reply to this) (Parent)

	blasphemusfish 2008-10-02 04:21 am UTC (link)
	I just laughed my arse off at the link. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	str8_edge_4ever 2008-10-02 01:10 pm UTC (link)
	"car went flames" teeheeheehee (Reply to this) (Parent)

	greenvixen 2008-10-02 05:13 am UTC (link)
	I vote for some kind of mental disease here... (Reply to this) (Thread)

	bopeepsheep 2008-10-02 06:28 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, if you read the article it said she was bipolar and probably unaware that she was in danger. (Blinded by rage, essentially.) (Reply to this) (Parent)

	underthethrow 2008-10-02 05:46 am UTC (link)
	That actually makes me incredibly sad. (Reply to this)

	myopinionis 2008-10-02 06:24 am UTC (link)
	"Paula Small"?! X3 Awesome. (Reply to this)

	kensbitch 2008-10-02 06:32 am UTC (link)
	(Almost) sorry to say, she pretty much had it coming. (Reply to this)

	wrench0626 2008-10-02 06:46 am UTC (link)
	Sutton-Smith? Good god, I think she used to teach me Biology. (Reply to this)

	super_loulou 2008-10-02 07:39 am UTC (link)
	What the holy fuck is wrong with everybody on this post, especially the OP? It says in the article she was bi-polar and therefore suffered from mood swings and extreme rage, and her MENTAL ILLNESS meant she couldn't appreciate that she was putting her life at risk. Jesus fucking christ people, mental illness =/= stupid. WTF? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	iniadelphinae 2008-10-02 10:03 am UTC (link)
	Mental illness is not an excuse. Yes, in this case it contributed to her death. That doesn't make the actions any less stupid. Edited for typos. Edited at 2008-10-02 12:43 pm UTC (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	eternalism 2008-10-02 11:59 am UTC (link)
	I was thinking the same thing. When last I checked, mood swings can cause stupid actions, sure, but to claim that mood swings made her incapable of recognizing danger? No fucking excuse, I'm sorry. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	liddle_oldman 2008-10-02 08:48 pm UTC (link)
	It's still really, really funny. (Reply to this) (Parent)

	beeblebear 2008-10-02 08:09 am UTC (link)
	Until I read down to the bit about bi-polar disorder, I was thinking it was funny. At the bi-polar moment, it ceased to be a stupid. Mentally ill really is not the same thing. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	tualha 2008-10-02 09:53 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, it's not a Darwin Award moment. Probably wasn't stupid at all. Just crazy as hell at the wrong time. At least no one else was hurt. Must have been pretty rough on the witnesses, though. (Reply to this)

	hotclaws 2008-10-02 01:24 pm UTC (link)
	Sorry as I am for her mental incapacity,at least the poor innocent victim wasn't hurt,which could have happened. (Reply to this)

	occamshairbrush 2008-10-02 04:32 pm UTC (link)
	I see another stupid in the article (not surprising in the Daily Mail). What was brake fluid doing in the engine? And is brake fluid really flammable? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	genghis_gerbil 2008-10-02 05:42 pm UTC (link)
	Brake fluid is basically light oil if I recall correctly, so I suppose it would ignite if you tried hard enough. As for what it was doing in the engine, christ only knows. That said, it's the daily mail, so anything in front of the dashboard counts as "the engine" as far as they're concerned. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	liddle_oldman 2008-10-02 08:47 pm UTC (link)
	This is way funnier than it ought to be. Not to mention Ms. Sutton-Smith seems to be assembled out of dudgeon, choler and vitriol in her photo. (Reply to this) (Thread)

	mongolbbq 2008-10-02 09:28 pm UTC (link)
	I think that's the would-be rescuer, actually... (Reply to this) (Parent)

	japangoddess 2008-10-02 11:14 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. Good riddance (Reply to this) (Thread)

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	realcdaae 2008-10-03 11:52 am UTC (link)
	So, you missed the bit about her being mentally ill too, huh? Or do you think all those crazy people should just off themselves? I'm sad for humanity today. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	dailyimprov 2008-10-03 03:23 am UTC (link)
	D: (Reply to this)

	weetziecat 2008-10-03 12:32 pm UTC (link)
	Wow. Didn't know that actions beyond your control due to mental illness counted as stupid, this was let through because...? (Reply to this) (Thread)

	jarethrake 2008-10-04 12:51 pm UTC (link)
	The fact that she's driving while she's incapable of recognising dangerous situations is stupid. (Reply to this) (Parent)(Thread)

	ayumidah 2008-10-11 07:03 am UTC (link)
	... that's special. (Reply to this)

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