He broke up with his girlfriend, so he set himself on fire. Seems logical.
What's he going to do when his ex-girlfriend starts dating someone else? Set someone else on fire?

Too bad he didn't do it in the pet food section. They might need a little manager attention drawn to that area.

A Wal-Mart manager was capable of something? They should move that guy up the corporate ladder. Maybe he could get the Nazi shirts and recalled pet food off the shelf. Or maybe not since the rest of the employees are incompetent boobs.

Nooooo!! Not my precious video games! *sob* The poor innocent babies!

Wow. I have family in Middletown, OH. That's probably the first time it made the news for anything.

You've gotta love the way a teen-ager's mind works. Goodbye cruel world! er . . . I mean . . . Goodbye cruel Walmart Electronics section with a nearby fire extinguisher!

What a sad cry for attention.

I think if he was serious about killing/maiming himself, he would have done it elsewhere.

Why would you do something like that in the middle of a store, if not for attention?

(and by "attention" I mean in an "I need help, I really don't want to do this so someone stop me." kind of way.)

That musta been one sweet piece of ass.

@RandomHookup: Doubtful. This kid was clearly emo, which means the likelihood of him having a hot girlfriend is slim to none.

@bluegus32: It's not just that he's a teenager, though. He is clearly an emo teenager. Much worse.

De-Ja-Vu
An aquintance of mine set himself on fire in my home town after some girl trouble.
The problem -> He was successful at it.
He tied himself to a tree in our local forest preserve and dowsed himself with gasoline.

A jogger found him the next day.

Moral of the story:
Loosing a girlfriend is not the end of the world, neither is failing a class.

must have been those dang video games!

I dont understand some people. Fine you want to hurt yourself good for you, but why the hell would you do it in a way that could possibly hurt others.

Set fire to yourself in a walmart!? Its more then obvious this guy wanted attention more then he wanted to kill himself.

Bah--sprinklers would've put him out sooner or later.

@Dag: Good call. I can totally see the black trenchcoat.

I don't get it- slow and painful method of suicide + trying to commit it in the middle of a huge capistalistic corporate store monster that eats children?

Just goes to show people can live their entire lives at Walmart - even immolate themselves.

Ah, youth! (sigh)

He's been playing WoW too much. Maybe he should roll a priest or druid to heal himself

I don't think that he set himself on fire because of some girl.

He did it because his mom took him to Walmart.

@asherchang: He was clearly making a burning-Tibetan-monk style protest. Who knows, he may have even worked at Walmart at some point (hence the emo).

Wal-Mart prices are so hot!!

@shdwsclan: Have you considered finding a different group of people to hang out with?

@MercuryPDX: Yeah, previous experience has shown that if he did it in the parking lot, suddenly everyone in the store would have turned into flailing morons. Well, wait. Um. Hmmm. Libertarians? Endanger the merch, though...

I often feel like setting myself on fire while waiting in line for some jackass to run their entire load of groceries through the self-checkout at Wal-Mart.

I'd love to go back to a time where the thought/logic process of thinking "the world is too painful to live in" turns into "So I think I'll go out in the most painful way possible"