April 18, 2008
"Dramatic" Berkeley Suicide Car Crash Kills One
An unidentified man killed himself this morning after running his car into parked cars at 80 mph at Yolo and the Alameda. Just before the fatal wreck, it seems, he was sitting in his car in North Berkeley and in the process of taking his own life, via a tube coming out of the car's exhaust pipe. A homeless man noticed what was going on, removed the tube. The homeless gent then flagged down a Sargent Patty Delaluna at Bancroft Way and Fulton Street for help. According to the Gate:
The homeless man told the sergeant that he saw a Subaru parked at the corner with a man sitting inside. There was a tube coming out of the car's exhaust pipe, which the homeless man removed, Kusmiss said.When Delaluna approached the Subaru, it was "cloudy inside," Kusmiss said. The sergeant tried to talk to the man, but he refused to communicate. Delaluna tried to smash the window to let air inside, but the man took off in his car, Kusmiss said.
The guy in the Subaru then took off, sending the Kusmiss on a brief police chase before the Subaru "went airborne" and landed on a parked pickup truck, killing the driver. No one (else) was was injured.
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If they'd just left the guy alone, he could have ended his life peacefully. But no, because people had to stick their nose in, he had to go out in a giant (no doubt painful) fireball, destroying other people's property along the way.
"No one was was injured." You probably meant: no one else was injured. That's a pretty dramatic way to go.
The fumes made him do it.
Very shocking.
He was supposed to CO1 himself in the privacy of his 2 car garage in the suburbs.
True. Ordinarily doing it in such a public place could be seen as a "cry for help" as opposed to an actual wish to die. But maybe he didn't have a garage? Because he obviously did have an actual wish to die.
CO1?
There's chemical compound slang now?
Man, I am really out of touch...
Carbon Monoxide
And so ends a bad week for Subarus
One Less Car
A homeless man noticed what was going on, removed the tube. The homeless gent then flagged down a Sargent... for help
Gosh... right after we spent all yesterday ragging on the homeless.
Well, if that hobo wasn't disturbed before, he is now. Try to help someone for once and watch them explode in fire and flesh bits. Awesome.
i've been helped out numerous times by those who are homeless. people without homes are much more useful than we sometimes give them credit for or notice.
the homeless guys selling street sheets outside the Castro Cala Foods always offer to watch my dog while I shop. I'm not sure I find this helpful, the only people I am worried will steal my dog are homeless guys who need a prop for their panhandling.
I've use homeless people like a Tom Tom, it's true. But they never quite fit correctly on my dashboard.
Dudettes, 1. Homeless people like the ' Picture De'JOur ' from yesterday have a story... doesn't mean it's the one we picture or that anyone at any time can't do the right thing.
2. I agree with Mariconsoy ( the dude with the Perry Mason Avatar ) he should have done it in a garage..... after all if he did it in a werehouse it would burn down and disturb the neighbors and they would be saying in the news ' He was such an honest bussiness man, who would have thought '
At least we know he wasn't the quiet white guy in the corner, or is that what he was trying to prevent ?
Just for the record -- the street person probably wasn't too traumatized. For whatever reason Mr. Summer was trying to off himself at the corner of Bancroft and Fulton -- an intersection that is downtown, near the University and the Marine recruiting office. The place where he went airborne, flipped and died was in North Berkeley a mile away.
I'm terribly sorry for his family, hope his car (and the others) had insurance, and am very grateful that he didn't take anyone else with him to Valhalla.
Mr. Summer was apparently a "Truther". There is a very nice picture of him with his "9/11 was an inside job" sign on ProtestShooter.com's coverage of the 2/12 Protest in Berkeley. He's the one in the purple shirt, according to an East Bay Express blog by Anneli Rufus, today.
One can't help but wonder why Carbon Monoxide in this place at this moment?????
having lived in btown for far too long, how did the thoreau revivalist get all the way from yolo x monterey to fulton X bancroft before the sargent (sic) found him alive? do safeway motorize their carts now?