Hero teenager stops man from setting himself on fire - VIDEO

Paul Russell, 18, tackled the man to the ground after he doused himself in white spirit and walked towards a fire he had started with paper on the pavement.He said his friends, who recorded the incident, thought the man was going to do a magic trick before he covered himself in the flammable liquid.The man is seen in the video throwing the liquid over members of the public and shouted: ‘F*** the system.’‘At the start we thought he was going to do a trick with fire and even when he poured the liquid over himself it seemed too weird to be true,’ Mr Russell told the Belfast Telegraph.‘When we tried to talk to him he poured some of the liquid over myself and a young girl and started screaming and swearing.‘I don’t know if I punched him or pushed him, I just wanted to get him away from the fire.’An ambulance man at the scene said the teenager’s actions saved the lives of others.Police arrived at the scene and Tasered the man who was detained under the Mental Health Act.(metro.co.uk)BakuDaily.Az