Festival-goers can be seen on a video dancing to electronic music and cheering as a man becomes engulfed in flames during West Hollywood’s annual Halloween carnival.
Gilbert Estrada, 51, later died. The video posted on YouTube shows him lying unresponsive after the fire was extinguished. Detectives say it appears Estrada may have accidentally started the fire while trying to light a cigarette.
As Estrada flails, some bystanders can be heard cheering. Others help put out the flames. One bystander recorded the scene with a cellphone camera and posted it on the video website. …Estrada was taken to Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead Friday morning, said Lt. Cheryl MacWillie of the Los Angeles County coroner’s office.Estrada, whose family told police that he attended the festival every year, was dressed as a sniper in camouflage, Biddle said. The costume apparently was made of burlap sacks and straw.
“It’s really thin and flammable,” Biddle said. “That stuff could ignite pretty fast.”
So it looks like poor flame safety with an unsafe Ghillie suit, and now, sadly this man is dead.
Does it make a difference that he wasn’t shot? It does to those who tout “Gun Death” as a relevant metric.
Will wonders never cease.
It turns out I actually DID learn something from my time in the .Gov run indoctrination centers.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hop-Frog
Surely the fact that he was dressed as a “sniper” will give the antis their share of gleeful goosebumps, no?
That was my thought. To (at least some of) the antis, “dressed as a sniper in camouflage” equates to “right-wing militia insurrectionist/terrorist.”
Sure he wasn’t an orang-otang?