Man kills himself with giant pencil

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window cleaner killed by giant pencil

Perhaps he needed some lead in his pencil?

Sorry!

yes 2shoes i found it funny along with about 10 other people above me

Well I am sure that the man's family and all the staff involved in investigating a man bleeding to death found it fucking hilarious. Wow, a pencil.

I don't care, it was funny.

This thread is funny.

Sometimes bad things are funny.

Did nobody hear of the guy who took a chicken up a mountain and shagged it so hard he dislodged rocks which fell and crushed him?

That was funny.

oh yes
a deranged mad attacking his leg with a giant pencil, then dies in a pool of blood......... really funny.

Nobody is asking you to find it funny, but please don't berate me and hardys007 for doing so.

Although my comment was more for 2shoes, if you thought it was ok for me (and the rest of us on this thread) to find it funny, you wouldn't have posted, lockets.

No, I am quite comfortable with finding it funny; as you should be with not finding it funny- humour is not universal.

For example, I find Michael MacIntyre about as funny as piles, yet thousands of people disagree with me an buy his DVDs.

I simply read your post as being about me because I have a massive ego

Unfortunately, 2shoes, your last post there was a bit funny too.

No-one's doubting the tragedy of it all, it's not like we're standing there handing out sharpeners, but it's only reasonable to take a moment to reflect on the incongruity of a death caused by setting about oneself ... with a giant pencil.

Don't read the Darwin awards books, whatever you do.

I find it simultaneously funny, horrifying and sad. Like most people I would think.

The family should complain about the headline. It reads like a joke. There's no need to mention 'giant' at all. I think that leads you away from the fact that a real person has died.

i have to be honest here....
when the paper came through my door the other day, I did think he had fallen on a pencil and wondered where there was a giant pencil near by.....
nearly started a thread about how misleading the title was

It is very sad, however it does sound like it could be a storyline from a very dark comedy. Which makes it a little difficult to hold back the giggles, but then I find the Darwin awards hysterically funny.

Kaloki: I'm guilty of loving the Darwins too!

This is just pure black humour, I feel so sorry for the guy but, death by giant pencil has to be unique yes?!

This wasn't a Darwin awards type death, yet people keep mentioning them.

There was no suggestion the man was being stupid. But possibly mentally unwell.

I think it falls into the "bizarre" death category though, which is what is making people laugh.

Well, I started this thread. My dh has suffered schizophrenia and has had a suicide in his family - though not in such a bizzare fashion. My own brother also went through a suicidal patch.

It's black humour. Dh and I both found it funny and tragic at the same time. If you don't want to read black humour then I guess you should hide the thread.

I have to admit a did snigger a bit at the headline but the story is sad, same as this window cleaner headline I saw a couple of years ago - story still very sad.
www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1551904/Window-cleaner-drowns-in-his-bucket.html

V sad but the "incorporating it into Yoga" line had me I'm afraid

It is sad as is any death but the report is bizarre.

"A window cleaner died after repeatedly stabbing himself in the leg with a giant pencil.

Jeffrey Burton's body was found in a blood soaked room at his home in St Leonards with a gash to his upper right thigh and an oversized souvenir pencil covered in blood next to his ankle.

The 57-year-old, who ran his own window-cleaning business, died from loss of blood.

But last night it remained a mystery how Mr Burton had died - with a coroner admitting he was baffled as to what had happened."

I thought he stabbed himself repeatedly in the leg which caused him to lose too much blood?

I think the mystery is why - suicide, psychosis?

"I find it simultaneously funny, horrifying and sad." Agreed, nickytwotimes

I haven't read the article, but from the comments here, it seems like it is another case of a headline writer changing the text, perhaps to fit, or for a more sensational slant.

Yesterday, listening on Radio 4, I heard an interview with Zoe Margolis (famous for her blog under the pseudonym Abby Lee, "Girl with a one-track mind"). I guess I must be one of the most out-of-touch adults given the release of her first (and now follow-up) books based on the blog, but while hunting about the net, I came across this item.

Apparently her article was titled "I'm a goodtime girl who became an agony aunt" but the newspaper changed it to "I was a hooker who became an agony aunt" (!)

Anyway, off to read her (pretty frank!) blog, as I've missed 6 years of it already!