SFist: "Dramatic" Berkeley Suicide Car Crash Kills One

frankjordan

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 12:45:13 -0800

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?

BerkeleySprout

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 23:10:24 -0800

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?????

Darkmoon

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:26:51 -0800

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 ?

icbalaam

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 12:14:10 -0800

I've use homeless people like a Tom Tom, it's true. But they never quite fit correctly on my dashboard.

murphstahoe

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:33:07 -0800

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.

Brock Keeling

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:19:59 -0800

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.

OrangeDrink

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:16:27 -0800

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.

DJTennessee

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:56:55 -0800

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.

murphstahoe

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:55:33 -0800

One Less Car

fizzandpop

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:53:40 -0800

And so ends a bad week for Subarus

mariconsoy

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:52:41 -0800

Carbon Monoxide

carney

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:49:45 -0800

CO1? There's chemical compound slang now? Man, I am really out of touch...

bluecanary

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:47:10 -0800

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.

mariconsoy

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:36:31 -0800

Very shocking. He was supposed to CO1 himself in the privacy of his 2 car garage in the suburbs.

icbalaam

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:35:46 -0800

"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.

bluecanary

Fri, 18 Apr 2008 10:35:23 -0800

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.