If so, what causes it and are there any warning signs or a way to stop it?
2007-03-27 18:49:38 · 13 answers · asked by Tizzy 4 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Other - Science
Only if they are riding a unicorn.
2007-03-27 18:52:25 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Years ago, I was living in a samll town in Mississippi when a guy down the street did just that - went up in flames and smoke on the driveway with thirty people watching. They never did find the cause and I have never heard of someone offering an explaintation of how or why this happens. There have been a number of cases where there were witnesses to what happened. The guy in Miss had nothing left of him but a pile of ashes. The local coronor said it looked like he had been cremated the job was so thorough.
2007-03-28 01:55:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
People do not suddenly burn on their own.
But three things coming together can make it look like that.
There is a flame to start a fire next to the person.
A person dies or is unconscious so they don't try to escape the flame.
The person is wearing clothing that can act as a candle wick.
Then the person can be burned up very slowly and at very high temperature so the burning gets to down to total ash. Strangely enough the burning can leave bits completely untouched so you might get an arm or a foot intact afterwards.
2007-03-28 08:23:08 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
the spontanous combustion have ceased to appear at teh 20 or 21 century.
2007-03-28 01:52:02 · answer #4 · answered by Terence G 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, there was an old lady that combusted before she went to bed. It was in the early 1900s.
The housekeeper smelled something but dismissed it.
2007-03-28 08:34:07 · answer #5 · answered by kunalseeni 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, but it is not big poof. It's slow smoldering heat inside out. People have reported smoke coming from their skin and did not have full blown combustion, but mild burn out of the blue indoors.
I think most who die from it die in sleep. May be try drinking lot of cold water. Who knows.
2007-03-28 01:54:49 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Its caused by tattoos.
Something about the dark absorbing suns rays and starting an unstoppable chain reaction.
DO NOT GET A TATTOO
2007-03-28 01:53:44 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
yes if you hold your fart for too long. the methane begins to collect inside your large intestine as long as you keep holding your fart, and this gives a 20% chance of spontanious combustion
2007-03-28 01:53:04 · answer #8 · answered by Caribou 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That is a question no one knows because scientist always argue about it
2007-03-28 16:46:53 · answer #9 · answered by Cleancut 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i did that last nite after eating them burritos at the taco stand. pepto bismol helped.
2007-03-28 01:52:54 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes! when you goto osama binladins house and eat a bomb 0_0 it feels like mmmmmm a bomb? THX
2007-03-28 01:53:28 · answer #11 · answered by Cluckin Bell Worker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋