CycleChat Investigates - Spontaneous Human Combustion

[Mad Doug Biker]

According to our survey, SHC is definitely real. Clearly the good folk of CycleChat have encountered this many many times themselves.

I know the late Vernon did with table tennis balls (and also rockets)!

Any of these in fact :

https://www.cyclechat.net/search/375008/?q=Ping+Pong+Balls&c[users]=Vernon&o=relevance

Nearly 15 years later and I still laugh at a lot of that... What a man!

 

[Dogtrousers]

'First Irish case' of death by spontaneous combustion

West Galway coroner Dr Ciaran McLoughlin said it was the first time in 25 years of investigating deaths that he had recorded such a verdict.

Michael Faherty, 76, died at his home in Galway on 22 December 2010.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-15032614

Mr Green said he doubted explanations centred on divine intervention.

"I think if the heavens were striking in cases of spontaneous combustion then there would be a lot more cases.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Mr Green said he doubted explanations centred on divine intervention.

"I think if the heavens were striking in cases of spontaneous combustion then there would be a lot more cases.

Point them towards the White House, the Kremlin and Jerusalem! 🤣

 

[fossyant]

When I was in hospital, we had a lady spontaneously combust in the ward next door.

Lighting a fag in bed when connected to oxygen was probably not a good idea. We found out from the Nurse who had to put her out.

 

[MontyVeda]

When I was in hospital, we had a lady spontaneously combust in the ward next door.

Lighting a fag in bed when connected to oxygen was probably not a good idea. We found out from the Nurse who had to put her out.

I learned an odd anecdote about my dad yesterday... he was in hospital for 6months aged 18 with TB, which would have been around 1957. The nurses used to bring him cigarettes in!

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I learned an odd anecdote about my dad yesterday... he was in hospital for 6months aged 18 with TB, which would have been around 1957. The nurses used to bring him cigarettes in!

Yes and they would serve Guinness and other beverages too apparently!

 

[Profpointy]

Is it really a thing?

It fascinated me when I was a nipper, and a mate of mine developed a then convincing theory about trapped farts and compression ignition.

But what does the hive mind of CycleChat think?

There was a brilliant South Park episode where there was a panic about lots of cases of spontaneous human combustion in the locality. The school science teacher helped with the investigation and discovered all the victims had just started new relationships and surmised that the problem was due them being on best behaviour with their new partners and holding in farts. The solved it by a public health campaign encouraging everyone to let-rip. Unfortunately this caused accelerated global warming (or was it the ozone layer?) risking a worldwide calamity and everyone blaming the well-intentioned science teacher. The day was saved by a new campaign advising everyone to just do a normal level of farting

 

[Yellow Fang]

It happened to my granny.

 

[Sharky]

This has reminded me of

Jan Palach​

Made a serious impression on me in 1969
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Palach

 

[Yellow Fang]

Wasn't there that case of the Buddhist monk in the Vietnam War. Sure, he covered himself in petrol and set himself alight, but he did go up pretty quick.

 

[sungod]

chlorine trifluoride, pretty much everything spontaneously combusts, it's my favourite way of disposing of the unwanted

 

[Ming the Merciless]

My father tells us that when he dies, he wants to be left on the garage roof for the birds to peck away at his carcass.

Will you leave some chips and gravy out as well before the birds go down the night club?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

There was a brilliant South Park episode where there was a panic about lots of cases of spontaneous human combustion in the locality. The school science teacher helped with the investigation and discovered all the victims had just started new relationships and surmised that the problem was due them being on best behaviour with their new partners and holding in farts. The solved it by a public health campaign encouraging everyone to let-rip. Unfortunately this caused accelerated global warming (or was it the ozone layer?) risking a worldwide calamity and everyone blaming the well-intentioned science teacher. The day was saved by a new campaign advising everyone to just do a normal level of farting

I thought he was a Geologist or similar, Randy Marsh and was the Dad of one of the Boys, Stan Marsh... I think.
It was also global warming as everything heated up and people caught fire and so on.

It happened to my granny.

Isn't that the beginning of the novel 'Crow Road' or similar, when he talks about the day his gran exploded?

chlorine trifluoride, pretty much everything spontaneously combusts, it's my favourite way of disposing of the unwanted

*Takes notes*
Chlor...Ine Trif... Luor... Ide...