This happened at my work yesterday:

http://www.thestar.co.uk:80/news/local/distressed_man_seconds_from_setting_himself_on_fire_in_sheffield_city_centre_1_3285012

It was a bit scary; the whole place stank of White spirit for hours!

Oh my good god! Thank goodness he didnt get to do it. If you saw someone do that it would scar you for life

Hope he gets the help he clearly needs x

It was blatantly a cry for help. I suspect they will be able to section him and make sure he gets some decent help.

The staff on reception were brilliant, in fact everyone involved did exactly the right things and stopped it being worse. He had a blade on himas well it turns out, somethings could have gone horribly wrong. We evacuated without the fire alarm so as not to put any additional stress on the man.

Oooh errr, im glad you are ok! x

Omg! How scary

It was scary cos it happened on ground floor reception so as we were evacuating, even though we didn't go where it was we were getting closer to it to get out and the smell of white spirit (although we thought it was petrol at the time) was really very strong. I was expecting a big Boom at any minute and all i could think was I've got to be OK cos I'm Imogen's mummy and she needs me!

:affraid:OMG thank god no1 was harmed