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Alleged downtown human torcher held in lieu of $5,000 bail
By adamg on Mon, 10/31/2022 - 4:28pm
A woman who allegedly tried to set people on fire at the Downtown Crossing Roche Bros. was ordered to stay away from the store at her arraignment Friday, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.
According to the DA's office, Syretta Copeland, 42, burst out of a store restroom with a can of Lysol and a lighter around 4:40 p.m. on Thursday, tried to spray people with the Lysol and then flicked her lighter at them.
She was unsuccessful in setting anybody on fire, but one victim felt the antiseptic getting sprayed on her skin, the DA's office reports.
Copeland tried fleeing into the Downtown Crossing T stop but was unable to evade police, thanks in part to store workers who provided a description of her and her floral top.
Copeland was formally charged with three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, one count of resisting arrest and one count of possessing an incendiary device/chemical/biological/nuclear weapon - the lighter.
Innocent, etc.
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Comments
This woman just needs proper
This woman just needs proper sleep and monitored meds. And clothing and healthy food and exercise. So do countless others. You don't need scary movies on Halloween. Just look around every day.
What she needs is to stop
What she needs is to stop trying to light people on fire.
You have no idea if she is mentally ill or just a jackass, housed or unhoused, or whether she has slept or not.
Why do people always make excuses for perpetrators and care nothing about victims?
Thank goodness she was incompetent at it.
That's not how you do the flamethrower thingy with a lighter and a can of aerosol. (At least based on the description here.)
Surprisingly to me Lysol
Surprisingly to me Lysol disinfectant spray will work as flamethrower fuel but you'd have to hold the lighter in front of the nozzle while you're spaying.
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Shhh
don't give out the secret!
But yeah, aerosol sprays generally rely on volatile hydrocarbons, which are then generally going to be flammable. And I didn't even look up what's in Lysol but I just assume it's going to be alcohol-based (alcohol is a great disinfectant!) with some other disinfectants mixed in.