(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...
That is strange. I've always heard that burns were the most painful injury you could receive. I've never had more than a burn on several fingers from grabbing a hot barrel and one pain pill followed up by multiple applications of aloe vera kept it bearable. But it HURT.
DeleteOnce you destroy the nerve endings in the epidermis and dermis layers you do not feel that kind of pain. You have some nerve endings in the subcutaneous but they are not pain receptor nerves like the upper two layers. Any third degree burns do not cause total destruction and you have pockets of nerve endings where when you start to debride the burn wounds will cause you indescribable pain. So, that fellow experienced tremendous pain and then none. He died by possibly inhaling the hot grease into his sinus cavities and into his esophagus into his lungs. That kind of trauma a person will inhale as an involuntary response.
DeleteThanks for the clarification, doc. Sounds like a horrific death even if most of his nerves were fried. 'Inhaling' hot grease sounds like pure death to me ... damn.
DeleteCederq@2326:
DeleteThank you for the info. Appreciated.
Now, can you tell us why it was such a good idea to pop that pain pill 20 minutes before the wound care nurse laid those sheets of silver torture on me? OMFG! It was more fun when she was late and the drug was wearing off...
Is this the season for suicide? We had a mentally imbalanced lady from our church commit suicide this week.
ReplyDeleteThere's no telling with the mentally unbalanced.
DeleteGuess it's gonna be a closed casket service?
ReplyDeleteYeah, I'm going to hell. Where's my handbasket?
Nah, open grease basket, er, casket. He probably looks like a tater tot. Surreptitiously hide an open, warmed can of lard nearby for the aroma. See who pukes. Bonus: if he's Catholic, use one of the votive candles to warm the can.
DeleteIf the family has anything to do with it, closed casket would be the only choice. Who would want to see the results of that ... no funeral home should be tasked with trying to repair that.
DeleteRobert, you're a sick one, my friend.
Suicide tends to be a social contagion; tends to go in waves. A person on the edge hears someone else did it, so they lose their inhibition.
ReplyDeleteI've known too many people who have committed suicide, without counting 11 or 12. Most were elderly, in pain, and no hope. A few were younger. No hope is the common thread.
At least 4 used a firearm, 3 of those lived at least 2 hours after pulling the trigger. One person I know of lived 40 years after pulling the trigger. Too many people have bought into Hollywood's fantasy of "bang-bang, you're dead". Anybody whose hunted or shot an animal knows that it isn't that simple.
In the early 1900s, drinking carbolic acid (Draino) was a popular method. They knew how guns worked. Unfortunately, you could live up to 30 days after having your esophagus eaten away.
Deep fryer? That's someone who didn't think it through.
There are much better ways of going. It just takes a little research. One of the recent executions in the United States points to a nearly ideal way. For myself, I hope to die at 95 after being shot by a jealous lover.
Your choice of death is the best choice of ALL the methods you mentioned. You just have to hope the shooter has good aim and has an intent to permanently punch your clock.
Delete"Draino" is sodium (or potassium, depends on what's cheapest) hydroxide, with or without chunks of aluminum. Chemically, it's an alkali (or base). Carbolic acid is an organic chemical, hydroxy benzene, commonly called phenol - and it is in fact an acid, not a base. Both are absolute disasters for living tissue, denaturing it on contact, and neither one hurts while the injury is occurring (personal experience- I've had minor burns from both from lab exposures - sometimes it's just easier not to bother with gloves, if it's an informed choice. And, yeah, the current crop of chemists would be horrified at some of the stuff their elders just did.)
ReplyDeleteMy great grandfather did in fact die of injuries received from a fall from an upper story window, in his 90s, while being pursued by a jealous husband. The shooter missed, though.
I've had absolutely no experience with Draino. I was always under the impression that it was too caustic to be playing with.
DeleteAnon@940:
ReplyDeleteWhy no pain? Is Drano the poor man's topical anesthetic?