AFP wrote:
TOKYO (AFP) —]he poured kerosene over himself in front of police[/B]," a police spokesman said.
Kubota refused to change his kerosene-soaked clothes at the police station and asked to smoke during questioning, according to the Yomiuri Shimbun and other Japanese media.
Despite no-smoking rules in the building, a police official gave him a pack of cigarettes and a lighter. When Kubota stood up, his right knee was ablaze and he quickly turned into a fireball, the reports said . . .
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I love the way that's worded - like violation of the no-smoking rule was the crime, rather than handing a kerosene-soaked man a lighter. Negligent homicide, anyone?