(This is horrible and makes me think there is more to this story than what's being reported. Fun fact: I have eaten at this very restaurant before.)

From: https://shorturl.at/S72tu (nypost.com)

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Olive Garden cook kills self by dunking head into searing hot deep fryer:
cops

By Emily Crane
Published Feb. 5, 2026, 12:15 p.m. ET

An Olive Garden cook has died after he dunked his own head into a
searing hot deep fryer -- as his co-workers frantically tried to thwart
his gruesome suicide, authorities said.

The employee, who hasn't been identified, stripped his clothes off and
thrust his face into the fryer at the chain's restaurant in
Williamsport, Pennsylvania, last Friday afternoon, the Smoking Gun
reported.

"A male victim went head first into the fryers," dispatchers could be
heard saying in grim 911 audio.

"I don't have a lot of details, lot of people screaming, some kind of a
burn victim," another operator could be heard saying.

The cook was rushed to a nearby hospital to be treated for his severe
burns, but he later died from his injuries, authorities said.

A female employee suffered minor burns after she and several other
workers tried to stop the cook from injuring himself even further.

At least one customer also tried to intervene.

Both Olive Garden and authorities refused to release any details about
the ordeal, only describing it as a "suicide attempt."

The restaurant shut down for several days in the wake of the incident
but has since reopened.
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(This is horrible and makes me think there is more to this story than what's being reported. Fun fact: I have eaten at this very restaurant before.)

What a crazy (& incredibly painful) way to decide to do one's self in.

Mike
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Hello MIKE,

06 Feb 26 08:40, you wrote to me:

What a crazy (& incredibly painful) way to decide to do one's self in.

He must have been in living hell to want to do that.

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Re: Tragic
By: Sean Dennis to All on Thu Feb 05 2026 05:57 pm

(This is horrible and makes me think there is more to this story than what's being reported. Fun fact: I have eaten at this very restaurant before.)

Wtf. I mean about any suicide method you can think about is going to be better than trying to drown yourself in boiling oil. People is frankly nuts.


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Arelor wrote to Sean Dennis:

Wtf. I mean about any suicide method you can think about is going to be better than trying to drown yourself in boiling oil. People is frankly nuts.

I think that the victim was mentally ill in other ways besides being
suicidal.

-- Sean



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