That's just hardcore....

[johnny861]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti....html?ITO=1490


Man cuts off own head with chainsaw after flat is earmarked to be bulldozed by developers

A ‘vulnerable’ man cut off his own head with a chainsaw after being ordered to move out of his home to make way for developers, police believe.

David Phyall’s severed head was found beside the power tool inside his housing association flat shortly after receiving his eviction notice.

Detectives were today investigating the possibility that the 58-year-old killed himself rather than leave his home of eight years.

He was the last resident living on an estate earmarked for demolition. All 71 surrounding flats were empty.

Paramedics and police made the gruesome find after receiving a 999 call.

An inquest is now being carried out into the exact cause of death and what had happened to Mr Phyall, described as ‘vulnerable’, beforehand.

It is understood police are not treating his death as suspicious.

Mr Phyall had lived in his flat at Bishopstoke in Eastleigh, Eastley, Hants, since 2000 and was fighting to stay there despite plans to bulldoze the entire area and rebuild it.

Many flats had already been boarded up.

Mr Phyall rented the property from Atlantic Housing Ltd.

He had been unhappy since the plans to level the flats and rebuild them were passed in 2006.

It is thought that he may have even been served with an eviction notice issued through the courts shortly before his death.

An inquest opened and adjourned by deputy central Hampshire coroner Simon Burge.

It listed the possible cause of death of Mr Phyall as ‘complete transaction of the neck’ and ‘chainsaw wound to the neck.’

An ambulance service spokesman said: ‘We were called to an address in Bishopstoke to reports to a “concerns for welfare.”

‘A rapid response vehicle attended and a search found a patient had sustained serious injuries.’


Ron Turtle, chairman of the Stoke Residents’ Association, said there was one tenant left whom he believed to be a disabled man who rented a ground-floor flat from Atlantic Housing.

He said: ‘They had offered him several places that were similar but he just didn’t want to move. In the end they had to go to court.’

Lib Dem Bishopstoke Parish Council chairman Anne Winstanley said: ‘The last I heard they were still negotiating with him to try to provide what he required to move into as an alternative.

‘It sounds very tragic for whatever the reason he met his death.’


Councillor Winstanley added that Bodmin Road had become a target for vandalism and nuisance behaviour in recent months.

The flats are thought to have been built in the 1960s but Atlantic Housing had revealed it would cost them more to repair than rebuild.

Southampton building firm Drew Smith were awarded a 7.8m pounds contract to design and build 54 replacement flats and 24 houses.

Three of the flats at Bodmin Road had been purchased by tenants under the right to buy but were repurchased by Atlantic Housing to enable the redevelopment to take place.

Atlantic Housing was unavailable for comment.

[charlie brown]

over his dead [and headless] body

[Roos]

Well he showed them!

[Enchilada]

I wouldn't think it would be physically possible to saw your own head off. You would think that you would lose consciousness before making all the way through the spinal cord.

[charlie brown]

yea but it's a chainsaw dawg .. it'd prolly continue the job on its own

[Supermick]

Originally Posted by Enchilada with Doo Doo as the meat

I wouldn't think it would be physically possible to saw your own head off. You would think that you would lose consciousness before making all the way through the spinal cord.

I thought the same thing. How the hell did he get all the way through his head after severing his spine? I call bull-shiat on this one

[johnny861]

Originally Posted by Supermick

I thought the same thing. How the hell did he get all the way through his head after severing his spine? I call bull-shiat on this one

decapitated creatures do funny things... I'm guessing the last signal the motor neurons received was chop this mutha fucka's head off... once this signal is cut, there's no reason for the muscles to just stop working...

kinda like the chicken that runs around the yard after it's head is chopped off...

[charlie brown]

I still think it had nothing to do with the muscles but more-so the chainsaw's doing

[e-brake]

Originally Posted by matias

I still think it had nothing to do with the muscles but more-so the chainsaw's doing

a chainsaw cant run without someone squeezing the safety and the handle at the same time......takes two hands and constant squeezing to operate one, kinda hard to do that without a head.

[PETA]

Originally Posted by e-brake

kinda hard to do that without a head.

that's good stuff

[Giles]

the body can remain alive for a few minutes after being decapatated. im sure that his muscles finshed the motion his brain sent prior to being sawed. grotz. i had a slight mafia feeling when reading this article. so hes the last one, then reno? well cut his head off and fuckin forget about it.

[PETA]

Originally Posted by Giles

the body can remain alive for a few minutes after being decapatated. im sure that his muscles finshed the motion his brain sent prior to being sawed. grotz. i had a slight mafia feeling when reading this article. so hes the last one, then reno? well cut his head off and fuckin forget about it.

you're sure?

chainsaws are heavy and necks offer resistance even to mechanized cutting tools

that the body would be oxygenated and have rec'd a neural imperative doesn't mean it would have finished the job

[alexican]

maybe he held the chainsaw with his feet?

hell i dunno but what a fucking way to off yourself

[PETA]

Originally Posted by alexican

maybe he held the chainsaw with his feet?

hell i dunno but what a fucking way to off yourself

its not a question of how he gripped it...

it's a simple matter of weight ratios

[alexican]

actually, its a simple question of WTF?