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Man ‘Engulfed In Flames’ At San Francisco Porn Shop

April 13, 2011 11:59 PM
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Authorities on the scene of a fire inside a porn store on Sixth and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 13, 2011. (CBS)

Authorities on the scene of a fire inside a porn store on Sixth and Mission Streets in San Francisco on April 13, 2011. (CBS)

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SAN FRANCISCO (CBS 5) — A man was hospitalized Wednesday evening with life-threatening, third-degree burns after somehow catching fire inside a San Francisco porn store, authorities told CBS 5.

The fire occurred at the Golden Gate Adult Superstore at 99 Sixth Street, near the intersection with Mission Street, in the city’s South of Market neighborhood around 6:20 p.m.

Police officers across the street from the porn shop saw a man run out the front door of the store “engulfed in flames,” SFPD Lt. Kevin McNaughton said.

Some firefighters who happened to be about a block away at the time were immediately summoned and extinguished the flames.

Arson investigators said it was not exactly clear how the man caught fire. Police indicated he had apparently been watching videos in a private booth at the adult arcade when the fire ignited.

The man, whose name has not been released, was being treated at St.
Francis Memorial Hospital for severe burns over 90% of his body.

(Copyright 2011 by CBS San Francisco. All Rights Reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.)

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  • Joe Bean

    That must have been some hot porn.

    • steve

      Question to someone familiar with drug users.
      Could this guy have been inhaling solvent?

      • Tomas

        Richard Pryor burned himself by freebasing cocaine. Could be what he was doing.

        Just a theory.

        -

      • Chad

        Only caveat against such a theory is you’d think police would be trained enough to recognize such paraphernalia. Especially considering a burning man doesn’t generally have time to hide evidence.

        That they didn’t point it out initially suggests something odd.

        Not odd in the sense of cops and firefighters coincidentally being within a block of a porn shop but still.

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      • Max

        Amyl nitrate (poppers) is an inhalant that is used to intensify and prolong male climax.. and is extremely flammable…
        http://www.dogpile.com/dogpile/ws/results/Web/is%20amyl%20nitrate%20flammable!3F/1/417/TopNavigation/Relevance/iq=true/zoom=off/_iceUrlFlag=7?_IceUrl=true

      • jerryjeff

        anything is possible. I think “inhalant” is synonymic of “inflammable.”
        I might agree with Tomas because before the rise of crack, freebase referred to cocaine cut with ether, which is highly flammable, but I doubt there is much of a market for such a product on today’s streets.
        My theory is that his dirty clothes came in contact with a source of heat induced by prolonged friction.

      • Bob Bobby

        The story says 90% of his body is burned, so we can rule out a small bottle of chemical inhalant. This is speculation on my part, but it sounds like a vicious attack. A religious extremist may have gone in with a large amount of flammable liquid, doused it on him and lit it up.

      • joshua hanke

        My theory is that he was maybe trying to smoke either crack or just a cigarette in a booth while huffing Rush (Amyl Nitrate). It’s very popular among the jack-booth set. Not kidding. I was a bouncer and cashier at a place there for a long time.

        As far as finding it odd that cops and firemen were close by indicates that the person who made that comment might not be all that familiar with the area! lol

    • David St. Hubbins

      You know, several, you know, dozens of people spontaneously combust each year. It’s just not really widely reported.

      • Michael J

        Choked on someone else’s vomit actually!

      • Joe

        BS.

      • joscco

        There’s really no way to tell… I mean, you can’t dust for vomit.

      • Nigel Tufnel

        There are some mysteries that are best left… unsolved.

      • BULL

        Nonsense, spontaneous combustion has been debunked.

      • bob

        Yeah, no they don’t. “Spontaneous combustion” is just a method of criminal body disposal, sometimes happens as an accident too. Basically its just when you have something flamable on a body and a wicking material below it (+ clothes that act as a good wick). The flamable material starts the fire and melts fat into the material below (carpet, pine needles, anything that acts as a wick) and then you burn up like a candle as the heat draws the flamable fats back up to it. Basically its just a human candle, that’s why it freaks people out because it only burns the body, but that’s because the fire remains contained. And yeah people only believe in spontaneous combustion in the US, if they see the same effects in Europe or anywhere else they know its most likely a body disposal or someone who passed out with a glass of high proof alcohol.

      • ironage

        Well…maybe….if the porn had been recorded in Doubly…this wouldn’t have happened…would it?

      • Peter Bond Jr.

        True, it happened to my father.

      • seth

        It’s the wick effect.

        The only question is what was the source of ignition.

        The wick effect consists of 3 components:
        1. Source of ignition
        2. A wick (clothing)
        3 wax (body fat)

        The combination of these 3 components will immolate a human body within a matter of minutes, usually burning only the body and the area immediately surrounding the body.

        If the man was inhaling amyl nitrate while smoking this would explain the source of ignition.

      • http://sunsetreflector.wordpress.com sunsetreflector

        What a bunch of losers. Maybe they should just die that way as it is in their fate after all.

    • EMSIG

      Maybe God was simply saying, “Naughty, Naughty.”

      • jbw

        LOFL!!!

      • Heretic

        What was God doing in a San Francisco porn store?

      • Camilla

        @Heretic:
        Watching You! 8-O

    • Randy

      It was a case of premature conflagration.

      • BubbaT

        HA good bit!

      • Phil Johnson

        Nice one!

      • juli boggs

        ZING!

      • http://itsmyturnnow.wordpress.com jedibozz

        FTW!

    • Joe

      Or maybe he was just a “flamer.”

    • Sorely Frickey

      Joe, guess why you’re bored with the people around you. Go ahead — it’s free.

    • DearMom

      You know what happens when you start rubbing two sticks together.

      • Ar Amytas

        just what I thought. friction creates heat

      • asdf

        I’m pretty sure the heat caused by the friction would have become too painful to continue far before a fire would have ignited.

        Although I must admit, the thought did occur to me at first.

    • Kyle

      The guy was smoking crack and set himself on fire!!! What is so mysterious here? Have any of you been to 6th Street?

      Drudge Report headline: “Man Mysteriously Engulfed In Flames At Frisco Porn Shop…”

      Do you know what “pulling a Richard Pryor” is?

  • Hap

    That must have been one HOT video!

    • Angel

      what no lube?

      • Robert

        Idiotic comments. He was sinning. May be he’ll take this as a sign from God!

      • Timmyjj

        A flamer in San Francisco is a story?

    • Jeremy Smith

      thanks for the obligatory god comment Robert. We knew someone would come through for us. This must be why everyone who watches pornography is engulfed in flames while going so…..oh wait, that doesn’t happen…so…tell us why god chose this guy. Robert…you’re an idiot too.

    • Poeboy

      Timmy – That is the best comment of the Day – Bravo!

      • ELG

        I concur

      • Patriot Alpha

        Maybe a flamer watching something really kinky like… um… say, oh, hetro porn?

    • EricSF

      @ robert – right like you never masturbated!!

  • tom

    he was not able to control himself when saw a naked lady

    • Andy

      I can almost guarantee he wasn’t looking at a lady, at least not a lady that was naturally born that way.

      • Sekretnoi

        There’s Lady GaGa porn?!?

    • Phil Dirt

      it’s san fransisco. he probably wasn’t looking at ladies! :) hahahaha

      • big pops

        hahaha not funny… we’re not all gay out here… and theres nothin gay about that dirty ass area

  • Jack Handy

    This type of thing is normal in the Castro

    • Ashley Salas

      It happened in the Tenderloin district. Not the Castro.

      • Don

        Sixth and Mission is not the Castro nor the Tenderloin.

      • thussaiththewalrus

        Don, you are technically correct, but it is spittin’ distance from the Tenderloin, so Ashley should win (on a technicality).

        It is a LONG way from the Castro, so Jack is talkin’ smack!

      • Jimmy The Mitch

        Definitely not Castro… nor a spitting distance from Tenderloin. The stubborn incorrect man can go back to sleep… no reason to get all FIRED UP.

      • Joe

        Mission & 6th is exactly one block from the border of the Tenderloin, which most would consider “spitting distance”, so you’re the one who’s wrong here.

      • Jimmy The Mitch

        Hi, I’m Joe. I live in Livermore and tell everyone I live in San Francisco. Let’s get technical since you feel so inclined… 6th and Mission is in SoMa. Spitting distance would be Downtown, Civic Center, Union Square, Financial Dist. On the other side of Civic Center (closer to Van Ness) is Tenderloin, an overhand baseball throw away from CC which is still closer than SoMa. I feel bad making everyone feel dumb AAAAAAAALL the time.

        James Mitchstaufferson
        SF Planning Committee

      • TK

        I think Jack’s point is simply that this kind of thing happens frequently in the Castro District. I’ll have to have my factcheckers working on that…

    • Eric SF

      @jim mitch – 6th street crosses at Market onto Taylor which is the TL. Civic Center begins at 7th street. Stay in Livermore or less

  • BRAD

    DID IT EVER OCCURE TO ANYONE HE MIGHT OF BEEN LIGHTING HIS CRACK PIPE. LIGHTER FLUID MAYBE?????

    • Ron

      Stop yelling. Turn your CAPS lock off!

      • cDIFFF

        GRAMMAR NAZI!!! AHHH MY CAPS LOCK IS BROKEN!!!!

      • bharold

        Do you troll every comment looking for CAPS lock volators. What a turd. Turn your COMPUTER off.

      • AmericanBlues

        NO, YOU TURN YOUR CAPS ON!!!!!

      • Dirty Dave

        It think someone must have…”BUST A CAP”.
        I kill me.

      • Andy Capp

        I TIP MY CAP TO ALL OF YOU

    • thussaiththewalrus

      Yup!

      • Robert

        I can’t believe all of the stupid illiterate comments on here! Hopefully he will recover and they’ll find out what happened. Maybe God is trying to rebuke and convict him for watching this filthy stuff. Porn is just another of the many things causing the downfall of this immoral world.

      • larrdogg

        so are you saying we need to watch more porn……… if it’s the down fall of this immoral world?

  • JIM

    I GUESS HE WAS RALLY RUBBING IT FAST AND IT BURST INTO FLAMES

    • Ron

      Stop yelling. Turn your CAPS lock off!

      • JBTascam

        Typical comment board NAZI. EVERYONE must conform to YOUR way of thinking and doing things, or they need to shut up. JAWOHL, MIEN FUHRER!!!

    • Unbrowser

      That’s what happens when you drink a dozen Red Bulls and plu with the little fire man.

    • Jonesy

      Friction and petroleum products will do it every time…….

  • Jack Hoffman

    spontanious penile combustion via unfortunate yet volitile combination of crack pipe and Hi-Karate cologne

    • littleblindjeffeymcrib

      This seems to be the most logical conclusion yet.

      • jimbobshinerdog

        I Concur.

    • Harry Bahlczak

      Awesome!

    • Christopher Anderson

      now this is the best comment yet

    • phil allen

      HAI-KARATE?

    • mikebee

      YES!

  • WickedSyn

    Wow! I’ve heard of making fire with 2 sticks but with one stick???

  • unclog print head

    Hey!
    Find some good reason buddy…

  • TedBike3000

    It was Gay Porn and he was a “Flamer”

    • Rosa Ramiez

      LOL The Best One So Far!

    • MAKE MY DAY

      What the hell is a “Flamer”???

      • Blueyz133

        Someone who is gay and flamboyantly so…

      • MAKE MY DAY

        Like a “Hello Sailor” in your face???

      • Yukiko

        Like ‘Hello, sailor, love your shoes.”

  • JVC

    He might have been using on of those new hydrogen penile enlargement gizmo’s theve been proven unreliable in europe.

  • lite me

    Richrad Pryor caught fire once…..

    • MAKE MY DAY

      Pryor was a “Crack Head” – Not a Porn-o-holic!!! C’mon baby “LIGHT MY FIRE” – and did she ever!!!… Jim Morrison and the Doors 1969!!!

  • David

    SELF COMBUSTION, NEW FORM OF GREEN ENERGY =] !

    • Ron

      Stop yelling. Turn your CAPS lock off!!

      • LIBSHATEME

        HEY RON,, HOW ARE THOSE BURNS????

      • vivi

        …says the Caps Crusader!

      • gRaMmAr MoSeS

        bE cArEfUl WhAt YoU aSk FoR rOn, ThErE aRe MuCh MoRe AnNoYiNg ThInGs ThAn AlL-cApS.

  • hugo poppernuts

    did he have an erection coming out of the store?

    • MC

      HI, THIS IS FOR RON. NO JOKE, JUST A POKE AT RON. CHEERS, MATE.

    • Finbar

      Duh, obviously! Why else would he be running except to keep the flames away from the jewelry.

  • john p

    must’ve been in a heated conversation with someone

  • Chico

    A man CAUGHT ON FIRE and is fighting for his life. No matter how deviant he might have been, jeez, can’t you have a little compassion? Does everyone have to burn him?

    Oh, great, now I’m doing it.

    • Jonesy

      Good one

    • juli boggs

      Heyo!

  • Hortense

    So this is NEWS according to CBS News? No wonder they are spiraling down the toilet.

    • shredder

      How many people engulfed in flames have you seen running out of a porn house? This is news to me.

      • Sc Dixon

        Excellent retort!

      • TK

        From the comments thus far it appears to occur with some frequency.

    • joshua hanke

      it is very important news had you been walking to the bar or bus-stop after work and a flaming man came barreling out the door of the corner Jack-Shack!

  • One in the wilderness

    Fear the wrath of God, yea who sin against the Lord of Lords and King of Kings.

    Be sure there will be more to come in response to your wickedness

    • MAKE MY DAY

      Duh….I don’t think this had anything to do with… Lord of Lords and King of Kings….More like “Lord of the Rings”!!! I wonder if Charlie Sheen was around this area???

    • karma meter reader

      Be real. If it was God he would have been hit with a lightning bolt AFTER he left the shop. Cooler sound effects with the thunder, too!

  • Ed

    Oh man… Throw up a beachball and someone is going to spike it…. I’m trying to resist the temptation….

  • m

    What’s up with the cops marine haircuts. These cops are supposed to be public safety employees. They look more like some kind of rogue private army.

    • Keith in Seattle

      They are, don’t you know that they call “us” civilians now? They act like some sort of para-military group now instead of public servants.

      • ck

        And, cops are called, “uniformed.” For that matter, so are firefighters. Another term for police is, “sworn.”

        All “civilian” means is that one does not wear a uniform.

      • John V.

        @CK,
        So, McDonald’s employees are not civilians? I’ve always thought you were either military or civilian. Cops are certainly civilians; they just don’t know it because it’s so much fun to play “Army” against other unarmed civilians.

    • ck

      Cops have short haircuts – or, even shave their heads – so that a bad guy can’t grab their hair in a struggle. Also, many cops are ex-military and are accustomed to the style.

      • Norge

        It always used to be “civilian police” and “civilian firefighters” as opposed to MPs (Military Police etc.). But now days anyone who can sew a patch on a shirt gets to leave behind the ‘civilian’ tag. Unless you are on active duty in the Armed Forces of the United States you are a civilian in my book, and most old school vets also. Even our Border Patrol was considered ‘civilian’ because the liberals didn’t want to create the impression that the border was actually guarded by “a military-type organization. Armed Forces, everything else = civilian, albeit government paid civilians.

    • HowsThatAgain?

      If you’re “threatened” by the haircuts of the police officers, you must have a psychiatric problem with authority.

    • Phil Allen

      They are, and have been for years. The (lack of) hair cuts=quick fellow-ID. If you don’t wear a badge–and this includes in bed–you’re one of ‘them’, ie, us (‘civilians’), and guilty of something. If this was one of the foreign lands we read about on the front page, they’d be the gents who drag off a few citizens here and there for beatings, torture, open-end imprisonment without trial. And, when things get so bad here that the 2nd-Amendment Rightists gather in ‘the streets’, who do you think is going to mow ‘em down? Our own friends and neighbors. You may have even sat next to one in school. Any way to know? The 4 cops who were slain in Oakland a few years ago, none of them Oakland residents, were members of a para-military force of occupation.

    • That’s Why

      So, uh my short hair means I cannot be a public safety employee? The SFPD is a “Para-military” organization by necessity. We are sworn civil servants armed with deadly weapons, and the ability in the performance of our duties to revoke specific rights that you as a citizen have. We have specific rank and command structure. Look there are dozens of reasons why we are, and have to be, paramilitary. It’s the nature of our job. Firemen too, also a para-military organization. You ever see those major wildfires? They are organized as part of a larger “battlefield command,” a system called ICS, that was pulled over directly from the Army.

  • joe jordan, jr.

    These jokes all suck.

    Keep trying.

    • MAKE MY DAY

      NO **WINNERS** HERE – ALL G’DAMN LOSERS!!!!

      • Ron

        You’re not winner, either.

        Stop yelling. Turn your CAPS lock off!!

      • bharold

        Ron, he has exclamation points, so obviously he intended to yell. I know that you feel that it is your personal responsibility to monitor the internet for people yelling, but please take a day off and go find a job.

      • juli boggs

        Ron would get a job but he bugs people.

  • Jerry Lee Lewis

    Great balls of fire!

    • dennis

      no great balls ON fire

  • Tiker

    too much friction….should have used lotion

  • McMan

    Was he viewing the porn version of “Man On Fire”? With Denzel WatchingOne?

  • Hank Warren

    On-fire-porn-guy, Lindsay Lohan, Jersey Shore, all distractions. As the Mainstream Media creates illusions, the US gov’t (and their corp. friends),start more illegal wars, ban books like “America Deceived II” and bail out banks.
    Last link (before Google Books bans it also]:
    http://www.iuniverse.com/Bookstore/BookDetail.aspx?BookId=SKU-000190526

    • Dave

      Can’t say you’re wrong.. It’s a shady country right now.

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