Drunk teen set on fire, filmed at house party
On Friday night (December 7th) a disturbing
incident occurred at a house party in Kelowna, B.C. An 18-year-old party
attendant somehow managed to pass out on the kitchen floor of the party house
due to either an overdose of drugs or the consumption of too much alcohol for
his body to handle (or both); the exact reason for his pass-out is not
released. Some time after the man was passed out, 20-year-old Matthew
Sweet-grant and 18-year-old Joshua Mcwhirter thought that lighting the man on
fire would be a hilarious prank and would add to the party excitement. The two
criminals poured some sort of liquid accelerant on the passed-out man and
afterwards lit it on fire which caused his whole back to combust. This incident
resulted in the victim receiving second and third-degree burns all over his
back and his condition in the hospital is summarized as “very serious
injuries”, and for the two men that lit him on fire, they are both charged with
aggravated assault.
This story was truly horrifying to read about, it’s hard
to hear that fellow partyers would do something like this to a completely
defenseless man who clearly has to many intoxicants in his system. The most
surprising part is that usually a party consists of mostly friends and people
that one at least slightly knows so it’s hard to believe that no one tried to stop this
incident from occurring and some person even managed to film the combustion
occurring on the victim!
Jackie Sharkey CBC
News
Posted: Dec 13, 2012 8:57 AM PT
On Friday night (December 7th) a disturbing
incident occurred at a house party in Kelowna, B.C. An 18-year-old party
attendant somehow managed to pass out on the kitchen floor of the party house
due to either an overdose of drugs or the consumption of too much alcohol for
his body to handle (or both); the exact reason for his pass-out is not
released. Some time after the man was passed out, 20-year-old Matthew
Sweet-grant and 18-year-old Joshua Mcwhirter thought that lighting the man on
fire would be a hilarious prank and would add to the party excitement. The two
criminals poured some sort of liquid accelerant on the passed-out man and
afterwards lit it on fire which caused his whole back to combust. This incident
resulted in the victim receiving second and third-degree burns all over his
back and his condition in the hospital is summarized as “very serious
injuries”, and for the two men that lit him on fire, they are both charged with
aggravated assault.
This story was truly horrifying to read about, it’s hard
to hear that fellow partyers would do something like this to a completely
defenseless man who clearly has to many intoxicants in his system. The most
surprising part is that usually a party consists of mostly friends and people
that one at least slightly knows so it’s hard to believe that no one tried to stop this
incident from occurring and some person even managed to film the combustion
occurring on the victim!
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