Daniel Victor Jones (April 15, 1958 – April 30, 1998)
was an American man who committed suicide on a Los Angeles freeway in 1998. The incident was broadcast on live television by news helicopters. Jones committed suicide as a form of protest towards health maintenance organizations after he had been diagnosed as HIV-positive several months earlier.
By the end of April 1998, Jones believed he was going to die and so he decided to take his own life in a way that would draw publicity to his situation. He believed it was no one's fault other than his own for getting himself into his situation. Jones would later be quoted as saying, "I'm not happy with what's happening to my situation and I'm going to draw attention to it whichever way I can. My paramount goal is for no one other than myself to get hurt."
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Poor dog in the truck being burned to death. If you wanna off yourself, at least don't take innocent animals or people with you.
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What an asshole.
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That part is such bs. I could get not wanting your dog to suffer in it's final years (like being afraid no one would take it in, you could have abusive people around you who would abuse the dog, etc, etc) but burning it alive? Do you have no fucking soul? If you gotta kill it with you at least use the fucking shotgun you had IN the truck already!
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Shells are expensive, but gas is also expensive.
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Folded like a half life ragdoll
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the blood trickling down the road is oddly beautiful.
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Not the dog you garbage thing 🤬😭😭😭😭
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Always hate this video because he killed his dog, then saved himself from burning to death
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Yup. He was a real piece of shit.
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This statically changed my reaction to this video
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Decisions:
Fire gets most attention. But fire hurt bad.
Jumping don't hurt. But scared of heights, and/or jumping won't get much attention.
Shooting gets pretty good attention, and don't hurt too bad.
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Didn’t want to hurt anyone else but left his fur baby in the burning truck!! He couldn’t tolerate the pain but left his dog in there to have to endure that!! That hurts my heart:(
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His pain and suffering didn't give him the right to inflict it on someone else. Fuck that. He was clearly romanticizing death :(
It's the worst betrayal, from someone who is supposed to love and protect you from such a harsh world. This was a murder-suicide.
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I don't know about romanticizing death...but I agree with everything else. I think being diagnosed with HIV and cancer so close together along with the poor level of treatment he felt he was getting made him genuinely feel like he was out of time and perhaps wanted to go out on his terms...and I can empathize with that. But not taking his dog out with him especially in that manner. It was the ultimate betrayal for sure.
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poor dog
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_V._Jones
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KCAL-TV channel 9 reportedly received an estimated 120 calls during the broadcast prior to Jones even taking his life, requesting the station to cut away from the story before things got out of hand.
LOOOOOOOOOOL "nooooo I think he wants to talk, lets see how this plays out"
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Oh god
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That’s really messed up!
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Piece of shit couldn’t even go out the way he forced his poor innocent dog to.
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105 & 110 West bound on ramp This is what I think of when passing there
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Aftermath
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couldn't pay for the non-shutterstock?
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RIP dog.
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Could have at least set the dog free, what an asshole.
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That looked pretty cool in the end
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Im just mad he bought the dog along to die a firey death. Fuck this guy
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He instantly noped out of trying to burn himself alive lol
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and noped out of jumping...
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I think there are easier ways of coming out of the closet.
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ppl were halfway thru their "only in america would such callous indifference and cruelty etc etc" comments when they found out he killed the heckin doggo and immediately backspaced to call him a cute twink who is burning in hell
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Absolutely no sympathy once I heard he burned his dog alive too
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THEY TURNED HIM INTO A FUCKING PONY!?!?!?!??!?!?! YOU MONSTERS
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Poor dog.
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At least he did it right unlike all those people missing their lower jaw
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its so beautiful how the blood slowly makes its way up from Daniel. 2:31
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To plan a death with some dignity.
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I was just thinking of this video the other day. Glad someone shared it...
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Every person that sets their self on fire regrets it instantly. It’s too much.
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If plan A fails, try plan B and so on and so forth.
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He tried every possible way but found sucess with gun
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"on this day He made HIs statement"
What statement?! He just blasted His brains out while balls naked in the middle of some road
I just watched Him blast His head off I don't even know why He did it
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props to him for wanting him and his dog to die together, but cmon. he made the dog suffer more than it should had.
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I’m glad he’s dead bc he hurt his dog
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that music almost made me shit my pants
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The media could of easily cut that out
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IT WAS THE DOG THAT GAVE HIM AIDS!!!!!
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