Isn't Schadenfreude The Meanest Of Pleasures?

[sandyRoe]

http://video.uk.msn.com/watch/video/arsonist-sets-himself-on-fire/2isz2ohm

[bookbinder]

Serves him right.

[vulcan42]

In this case the word arsonist is most apt.

[Lie-in King]

Made my day that, ta Sandy

[carrust]

I was on a building site before Xmas when the builders caught 2 chavs breaking into their vans......They weren't a pretty sight when they'd done with them.

[Peter Pedant]

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also should be a contestant for a Darwin award ( acting in a way to make sure his genes dont get carried on )

[Peter Pedant]

Rochdale - they're a bit thick up there....

[joggerjayne]

It could've been cleaning fluid.

Maybe he was going to wash the windscreen, and his cigarette ignited the vapour before he could finish his good deed.

[sandyRoe]

JJ, it's heartening to read a post from someone who can clearly see the best in people. I was thinking we were watching an arsonist hoist by his own petard and what we might actually be viewing is a good deed gone badly wrong.

[ChillDoubt]

"Mr Darwin, we have a winner...."

[jake-the-peg]

I'm holding a Schadenfreude party


You're not invited!

[joggerjayne]

I wonder what he does for a living.

I guess he's not a fire safety officer.

If you have nothing with which to extinguish the flames, you might be able to smother the flames.

Or, in his case ...

Run down the road, waving the flames in the air.

[joggerjayne]

J-T-P

Nobody wants to come to the party anyway.

[Peter Pedant]

more on Darwin here

http://www.darwinawards.com/darwin/darwin2012-01.html

[jim360]

There are times when Schadenfreude is a cruel response to an unfortunate accident. This is not one of those times. Sad that he still managed to cause a serious amount of damage even so.