A crazed man - who has hurt himself in public before - went on a raged-filed rant about the IRS and then attempted suicide in full view of Matt Lauer and the Today show team in Rockefeller Plaza this morning. Pak Chong Mar, 72, from the New York City borough of Queens began to cut his wrists as he stood in the audience for the popular breakfast show, screaming 'the IRS is watching me', before he was pepper sprayed and subdued by NYPD and Today show security. And it was revealed this afternoon that this is not the first time that Pak has hurt himself in public. In August 1995, he chopped off three of his fingers with a meat cleaver and threw his severed digits at the crowd during the Hong Kong Dragon Boat Festival in Flushing.
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Man who tried to kill himself in front of Today show crew this morning named as 72-year-old Pak Chong Mar
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Witnesses said he was screaming about the IRS
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NYPD and Today show security stopped him and he was transported to St. Luke's Hospital
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Police drew and aimed their guns at the man before he began slicing his own body
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Matt Lauer and his co-host's were forced to move indoors to complete their morning broadcast
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