The last resident in a block of flats due to be demolished cut his own head off with a chainsaw to highlight the ‘injustice’ of being asked to move out, an inquest heard today.
Desperate David Phyall, 50, plugged the electric chainsaw into the mains and attached a timer to the socket. He then wrapped sellotape around the machine’s trigger to secure it in the ‘on’ position and tied the handle of the saw to a table leg to hold it steady.Mr Phyall rested the saw on his neck and waited for the timer to go off. The Black and Decker chainsaw sliced through his neck in an instant but kept going for a further 15 minutes.
Police and paramedics found his blood-soaked body at the flat in Bishopstoke, near Southampton, Hampshire, after his father John raised the alarm. Mr Phyall was the last resident living in an area marked for a mass redevelopment and all 71 surrounding flats were empty. The inquest heard Mr Phyall, who had lived in the 1960s flat for eight years, was the last resident in the block and had resisted 11 offers of a new home. Sgt Carter told the inquest he broke into the flat using a crowbar before making his way to the lounge where he found Mr Phyall’s body dressed in underpants and a T-shirt.
Strange way to get your point across.
Extra points for creativity, but he must have had other options.
well that really showed them!!!
Every time I feel like cutting my head off in protest, I recognize too many people will fail to get the message and just think I’m an idiot. Course, THAT happens no matter what I do.
Maybe if I used my real name on these posts, things would change?
New home… No head.
Tough choice for Desperate David.
bobbo is not your real name??? Say it ain’t so. My real name is “The Monster’s Lawyer”. I swear. No Shit. For real. I’m not kidding. You can take my word for it. I promise.
I can imagine many parents naming their kiddies “Monster” but no one would name their kiddie “Lawyer.” I think that violates some law.
#6 bobbo – The playground at recess was the worst. But I grew up unafraid of those bullies after I learned the wonderful world of litigation.
I recall telling the school bully that if he hit me I would sue him and his parents for every penny they had.
He wasn’t impressed.
He responded that he and his parents were judgment proof and then he provided me with a knuckle sandwich which was not on that day’s menu.
All in all–just another example of the school yard being occupied by too many lawyers.
Sorry bobbo, I didn’t realize that was you.
How is that lip doing?
Hah, hah==good one. I’ll finally tell you I kissed a dog turd before going out for recess, so the jokes on you!!!
“Two weeks before his death First Wessex Housing Group had been awarded possession of the flat giving them legal entitlement to evict him.” Another example of the rich trampling on the poor, and even driving them to suicide !!! A woman facing forclosure eviction took her own life with a gun !!! And we see how Paulson will spend billions saving Wall Street Cronies, but let Detroit and millions of jobs in manufacturing go down the drain !!! With the Rich, it is ALWAYS “GIMMIE, GIMMIE, GIMMIE!!!” …
[You did a good job of keeping yourself under control, Jim… until right there at the very end. – ed.]
#10 bobbo – You showed me. 😉
Well. That’s a job for Spray and Wipe.
bobbo, Monster, get a room already!
A very determined man.People who really want to kill themselves succeed.I still remember standing up to the bully and kicking his ass.As an adult he committed suicide.
Suicide: the cowards way out. haha
The guy was point out the way to a change he could believe in.
I think I’d prefer sleeping pills and booze. Less messy and less painful.
I liked the guy that super glued his hands to the sides of his head and then hung himself with a razor wire. It gave the illusion that he ripped his own head off. Creative…
Now that’s a sincere statement of personal policy. There may have even been a twisted logic to it. Now that it’s a crime scene, any demolition that was to take place may be held up for months until the case is cleared by the courts.
I think it was some new masturbation technique.
They’re doing away with plastic bags y’know.
Botched circumcision??
Or just a hair cut gone WRONG..
helps clean the inbred gene pool in the uk.
Was this on Justin.tv also?