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| RIMRON NOW: "No regrets" |
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| A GROUP of pals watched in horror as their ginger friend set fire to his own face, The Daily Bridgend was told last night. Gareth Rimron, 20, known to his friends and everybody else as "Ginge", was engaging in drink-fuelled fun and chat with several pals when he felt the sudden urge to burn his own face to a crisp. Inspired by the antics of one friend, Stephen Savile, Mr. Rimron decided to fill his mouth full of cigarette lighter gas and to set fire to it, "to see what would happen". Unfortunately, Rimron had been swigging vodka for six hours and his face was covered in the highly-flammable spirit. The harrowing scenes that followed were captured on camera by the traumatised group. |
| VODKA BINGE GINGE IN FACIAL SINGE OGMORE RESIDENT DESTROYS HIS FEATURES |
| GINGER: How he looked before incident |
| FRANTIC: These pics show Rimron shaking and beating at his own face in attempt to put the fire out |
| BRAINWAVE: Rimron dreams up demented idea |
| An inebbriated Rimron had decided to get "bladdered" having spent a week with Matthew Jones and thought that a bit of a binge would help him relax. However, he was told of Stephen Savile's party trick (the other party trick...) during which he seemingly blows fire out of his mouth, dragon-style. Impressed, a slurring Rimron demanded a lighter so that he could attempt Savile's trick and steal the spotlight away from him. Despite repeated attempts by Matthew Todger to stop him, Rimron then proceeded to fill his mouth with gas from the lighter. As he started to turn blue, it was suggested to him by Alan Cheng, also 20, that he should remove the lighter from his mouth and set fire to the gas. The disturbing photographs of the resulting carnage are available to readers of The Daily Bridgend below but please exercise caution if you are of a sensitive disposition as you may find these scenes slightly distressing. |
| After extensive facial surgery, doctors have nearly restored Rimron to within 10% of his previous facial structure and hope to be able to mould his features back in to their original shape once the temperature decreases. Rimron, pictured right as he looks after the accident, stresses that he has no regrets for what happened to him, citing personal rivalry with Savile as the cause. SMUG "I would do it again tomorrow," proclaims Rimron, a smug look of pride hidden beneath the scar tissue. "But I can't, because the doctor told me not to, I might die if I did. But don't worry, Sav. I know you want to get one up on me, and you can try, but I've got a surprise for you! This knife-covered glove, which I will use to slice you up and eat you, with a chilled bottle of chianti and some gingerbread." Rimron then ran away from our reporter, having spotted Alan Cheng staring at him. WARNING Dr Uliuli Fifita, a fire chief in Cumbria, said that this incident serves as a warning to us all of the dangers that playing with fire can bring, and he hopes that Rimron "has learned his lesson. He's lucky he didn't lose his eyebrows, but only because he didn't have any beforehand". |