Anyone who sets themselves on fire...
due to visions of messianic greatness needs to be poked fun at. He thought that by setting himself on fire, the world would be shaken to it core and a new age would begin. This guy was an idiot. A quote from his own son...notice the pun.
"He was different people at different instances and so, so erratic. I loved him no doubt, but he was a very lonely and tragic man," said Ritscher, 35, who is estranged from the rest of the family. "The idea of being a martyr I'm sure was attractive. He could literally go out in a blaze of glory."
His own son was even cracking a joke about this fool. I don't know who was more jaded, the morning commuters who drove past without flinching or this guy for thinking the world revolved around him.