Man bursts into flames on london street (unexplained)

a reply to: research100

The cow owned bt Kate O'Leary is still a suspect in the great Chicago fire of 1871, we may never know the truth..

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was it sunny outside he might have been a vampire who either just fed on a pub crawler or a heroin addict and being so intoxicated walked into sunlight and poof.

"It always creeped me out to know that you can just suddenly burst into flames."

That is not how SHC occurs.

If people really did burst into flames, the houses they were in would've caught fire. None of them have. It is well documented that suspected instances of SHC are smoldering types of fires. There are no flames; it's a cold, sooty burn.

It's usually the body and clothing (sometimes only part of the body), and perhaps the chair or bed they died in that are burned, and not even the ceiling above is scorched. The 'alcoholism' angle comes into play most probably because they passed out with a lit cigarette or perhaps a candle burning on a table near them.

I wouldn't be surprised to learn this fellow had a 9v battery in his pocket with some change, along with a butane lighter.

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Many synthetic fabrics are major fire risks too. This gentleman's untimely ending may be due to several causal factors occurring at the same time.

A very sad story.

There are some moisturising creams for people with eczema that are pure paraffin.
They come with warnings, but people have died from them before when they accidentally catch a flame.