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| New York Daily News - Home - Driver in grisly suicide by Rattle at  5:41 pm EST, Jan 21, 2005
 |  | ] A suicidal New Jersey man set a new standard for] self-inflicted brutality when he decapitated himself by
 ] driving away from a light post with a rope tied around
 ] his neck.
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 ] Wolfgang Persieck, 50, of Union Beach, died when the
 ] rope, which he had attached to the post, jerked his head
 ] off as he stepped on the gas Saturday night.
 New Jersey, where everything is just a little more hardcore. |  
 
 
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| RE: New York Daily News - Home - Driver in grisly suicide by e at 11:52 pm EST, Jan 24, 2005
 |  | Rattle wrote:] New Jersey, where everything is just a little more hardcore.
 I think the Japanese guy who rigged it so that a sword took off his head a year or so ago (car was involved as well) is hardcore with style. |  
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| New York Daily News - Home - Driver in grisly suicide by Shannon at 11:20 am EST, Jan 21, 2005
 |  | ] A suicidal New Jersey man set a new standard for] self-inflicted brutality when he decapitated himself by
 ] driving away from a light post with a rope tied around
 ] his neck.
 ]
 ] Wolfgang Persieck, 50, of Union Beach, died when the
 ] rope, which he had attached to the post, jerked his head
 ] off as he stepped on the gas Saturday night.
 ]
 ] His body was found inside the car, along with several
 ] suicide notes, behind the Hazlet Multiplex movie theater,
 ] Monmouth County Prosecutor John Kaye said.
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 ] Two teenagers found the car as they walked through an
 ] isolated area behind the theater on Route 35.
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 ] The pair stopped a passing police officer, who discovered
 ] Persieck's body. Interviews with relatives and the notes
 ] pointed to a suicide, Kaye said.
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