A former University of North Carolina student who reportedly stripped down, yelled “Hail Satan!” and tried to blow up the college’s “Tree of Knowledge,” ended up instead burning a professor who tried to extinguish the flames howling from the Davie Poplar, cops said.
This is NOT my video – origin unknown – but here is the video from someone's Snapchat of what happened @hgargan @newsobserver pic.twitter.com/1fXyHhoi55
— John Bauman (@bauman_john) November 2, 2017
Prof. Dan Reichart sustained burns to his face and arms on Thursday, when he tried stomping out the flames on the tree before it exploded — a heroic attempt caught on video.
“I was an Eagle Scout as a kid, so I’ve had lots of experience with fires, and I didn’t think this one was too big to kick out,” Reichart told ABC 11. “I tried but it grew very quickly, and then it exploded — I would never have approached it had I suspected there was an explosive device in there.”
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