This is from the tropical gun control paradise of Venezuela. Bad guy was caught trying to rob a street vendor and somebody gave him a nasty whack a top of his head.
But a population tired of failing Law Enforcement, corrupt judges and without a recourse to defend themselves legally, decided to go Mob Justice with some combustible fluid and a lighter.
Click play at your own risk:
I’m surprised the guy was alive at the end, he was on fire for quite a while.
Knowing the quality of health care under Venezuelan Socialism, he might not have survived long.
The old saying still applies. Build a man a fire, and you’ll keep him warm for the day. Set a man on fire, and you’ll keep him warm for the rest of his life..
Damn, that was brutal. Shows what will happen in SHTF/WROL situations.
If the number of such videos on the Internet is any indication, beating, burning, or necklacing criminals is de rigueur in parts of Africa and Latin America, where the common people seem to have given up on ever having honest or efficient police, or decent government generally. Of course, man-bites-dog gets more play than dog-bites-man, so who knows?
For Venezuela, burning people alive is a very new thing. Mind you, they had no issue gang banging you with machetes till you were a human tartar steak, but this fire stuff is not he norm I grew up with.
Note to self: Do not attempt to rob a street vender in Venezuela.
Attempted murder notwithstanding, I have to congratulate those guys. Some people wish to light someone on fire. They actually did it.
It has been said:
The police are not here to protect the citizenry from the criminal. Quite the opposite.