Russian Man Commits Suicide with Chainsaw

Funny Monkey · #11 ● 06-23-2012, 02:36 AM

There are less painful ways to off yourself.
What an idiot.

DiamondSmiles · #12 ● 06-28-2012, 01:31 AM

I'd take overdoses and go to sleep, a la, Sharon Tate's character, in, "Valley of the Dolls." What a waste of her life! Beautiful woman :(

DiamondSmiles · #13 ● 06-28-2012, 01:54 AM

I found his reason, but, still looking for a photo of the guy.

A desperate David Phyall, 50 of Bishopstoke in the UK, used an electric chainsaw to cut his own head off to protest his eviction from a block of flats set to be demolished.

Phyall had refused to leave his one-bedroom flat and had been taken to court.

Bishopstoke, UK - David Phyall, 50, was the last remaining tenant in a building that was set to be demolished to make way for a massive redevelopment in the area. Even though he had been ordered to vacate, Phyall refused to leave his one-bedroom flat.

Two days before his body was found, it's reported that he "carefully planned" his suicide, as a way to make a statement. What follows is gruesome.

Phyall plugged-in an electric chainsaw and set it on a timer. Using sellotape, he taped the trigger to the 'on' position, then secured the chainsaw to a table leg to hold it steady. Phyall rested the saw against 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.

Mr. Phyall's parents had gone to the flat and after discovering that the door was locked from the inside, called Sergeant Mark Carter. Using a crowbar, he forced the door open only to find the grisly scene.

Phyall was dressed only in underpants and a T-shirt, and covered in blood. Sgt. Carter said,

'The carpet was covered by a layer of blood and the ceiling above my head was also splattered with blood."

Carter goes on to tell that the chainsaw was embedded in Phyall's neck, and it had quit running three quarters of the way through the man's neck. He saw that the trigger to the chainsaw was taped to the "on" position, as well as the saw being tied to the table leg. The saw and the timer were still plugged-in, although not running.

"I have never come across an incident quite this graphic."
At the inquest, Detective Sergeant Mark Huxford continued telling the details. He said that the head was still attached by the right shoulder and his head was lying to the left.

Because of the way the chainsaw had spun while running, a large area of the carpet was covered with blood.

John Phyall, David's father, told the hearing that he had no idea that his son meant to kill himself.

'We had seen him a week prior to his death and he had appeared cheerful and had been making jokes. His death was totally unexpected.'

Deputy Central Hampshire Simon Burge who recorded David's death as a suicide, felt that this manner of how Phyall had chosen to kill himself was to 'make a statement'. He described the scene as "appalling" and "bizarre".

'Mr Phyall had thought through how he was going to commit suicide very carefully - he went to a great deal of trouble to rig up the chainsaw knowing full well the result would be fatal.

If his death was to make a statement about the injustice of being evicted from his home of 8 years, he certainly accomplished that. What's even sadder is that he turned down 11 offers of a new home.

DiamondSmiles · #14 ● 06-28-2012, 02:03 AM

No wonder I can't find him. It happened in 2008!

DESPAIRING David Phyall cut off his HEAD with a chainsaw after losing an eviction fight.
David, 58, plugged it into the mains and put a timer on the socket, then took a cocktail of pills to knock himself out.

He rested the saw on his neck and once he passed out, the timer went off – slicing through his neck in an instant.

Cops and paramedics found his blood-soaked corpse ten days ago after his dad John raised the alarm.

A Hampshire police source said: “What greeted them was a horrific sight. The head was severed and there was a considerable amount of blood.

“He seemed to have gone into a great amount of detail to end it all.”

The campaigner had fought for several years to prevent developers bulldozing the block of 72 flats he rented in, and replacing them.

He was last to leave after all the other flats were boarded up in Bishopstoke, Southampton.

It is believed an eviction notice from housing association Atlantic Housing Ltd was the last straw.

Rejected

A spokesman for Atlantic said: “We had given him 11 other offers of accommodation but he rejected them, basically because he did not want a property owned by us.”

An inquest into the death was opened at Winchester Coroner’s Court and adjourned.

Tests were being carried out to see whether the tablets killed him first.

Ron Turtle, residents’ association chairman, said: “They offered him several places that were similar but he just didn’t want to move. They had to go to court. It is a very sad situation.”

The flats were built in the 1960s but would cost more to repair than the £7.8million cost of rebuilding on the site.