(I can’t even fricking imagine how bad your mind has to be fried to try and die like that. I can only imagine that he was on some kind of potent drug. DAMN!)
The horrific event at an Olive Garden restaurant in Williamsport, located in north-central Pennsylvania, reportedly left coworkers in shock and caused the multi-day closure of the restaurant.
Several published reports confirm an unnamed Williamsport Olive Garden worker died by suicide after dunking his head, face-first, into the boiling grease of the kitchen's fryer.
The gruesome incident occurred Friday, Jan. 30.
The employee, who hasn’t been identified, stripped his clothes off and thrust his face into the fryer at the chain’s restaurant in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, shocking coworkers who were trying to prevent the act.
"'A male victim went head first into the fryers,' dispatchers could be heard saying in grim 911 audio," read a portion of The Smoking Gun’s article. "'I don’t have a lot of details, lot of people screaming, some kind of a burn victim,'" another operator could be heard saying.
"The cook was rushed (to) a nearby hospital to be treated for his severe burns, but he later died from his injuries, authorities said. A female employee suffered minor burns after she and several other workers tried to stop the cook from injuring himself even further."
"In response to a TSG inquiry, Trooper Lauren Lesher, a Pennsylvania State Police spokesperson, said that the 'incident was a suicide attempt and out of respect for the individual and their family, we do not release information.' Lesher added that the provision of details about the event could lead to the late worker’s identity being discovered," read The Smoking Gun's report. "In a brief phone conversation, a manager at the Olive Garden, which closed for a couple of days after the incident*, said, 'We are not able to disclose anything due to our privacy laws.'"
(*Gonna catch a lot of shit for this, BUT I ASSUME they changed the oil before opening back up.)
Ya' gotta work with what you have. But damn.
ReplyDelete"But damn." Amen brother.
DeleteA buncha people who won't ever eat there again. I'm sure management let everyone go home without paying.
ReplyDeleteThe dude didn't die quickly, I'd think.
I wonder if he had been a Hot Head all his life.
Yeah, my wife said she wouldn't ever be able to eat there if that had happened here.
DeleteAnd they said he lived until later when he died at the hospital. If they didn't give him some serious drugs, he was in pain until he clocked out.
When I commented on a shipmate's odd-looking skin:
ReplyDeleteMe: Dude, what happened to your arm?
Him: I dropped something into the deep fryer and, without thinking about it, reached in to grab it.
Me: OMFG, that must've really hurt!
Him: Nope. Killed all the nerve endings immediately. Barely felt it. People freaked.
Me: And then what happened?
Him: Chef wrapped my arm and took me to the hospital. Had lotsa skin grafts.
Me: ...Dayum...