Man Arrested for Touching Olympic Torch (vancouver Winter Olympics, Feb 2010)

[güttsfükk]

[drm82]

I didn't catch what he did that was so bad

[K9Grip]

Geeze, a little over zealous there popo.

[kellyhound]

lol people like him are not hard to miss as he was the only one not cheering etc.

[nobodyspecial886]

I don't remember the Olympic Torch looking like a huge blunt.

[SinisterNm]

it looks likem he took the flame with a zippo er something...cool...off to light a stoagie with athens light

[güttsfükk]

comments on the video on youtube say this guy was a traveller, hippy type, lots of partying, and died recently in thailand

[IceCreamMan]

The "flame guy" did indeed die later in that year (2010). From the Vancouver Sun of August 26, 2010;

A 26-year-old Richmond man who found Internet fame during the Winter Olympics died in Thailand on Tuesday after apparently falling from a train and suffering a head injury, according to local media.

Jordan Krull's body was found in the Photharam district of Ratchaburi province, about 500 metres from Chet Samian railway station around 4:30 a.m., according to the Bangkok Post. He was carrying his passport, ID card and 8,000 baht, or about $270 Cdn, in cash.

It was believed he might have fallen, unnoticed, from the train while standing on a step at an open doorway, the paper reported. He had sustained a head wound.

Krull, who had limited resources but often said he survived on "sheer will," had told friends that his journey to Thailand was part of a bigger plan to find purpose and "figure [things] out in the world." Since May, he had also travelled to Shanghai, Hong Kong and Pakistan, carrying with him a few belongings, including a leather-bound notebook in which he often wrote freestyle rhymes. He was also known to burst into rhyme during conversation.

"I'm still proud that he went and did this," said Krull's sister, Courtenay Anderson. "He was just really ready to find something new, to reinvent himself."

Krull found fame during the 2010 Games, after his plan to light a cigarette off the Olympic torch went awry when he was tackled to the ground by police and a video of the incident went viral on YouTube.

The video, titled Jesus arrested at the Olympic torch relay -- a reference to Krull's scraggly hair and bushy goatee -- has been viewed more than 309,000 times to date.

Krull will likely be cremated at a Buddhist monastery before his ashes are brought back to Vancouver for a service, Krull's brother Jason said.