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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
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 Posted - 05/19/2005 : 18:58:46
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Wednsday afternoon a friend of mine was killed in a motorcycle accident. A long truck made a left turn without noticing the bike, my friend was pronounced dead shortly after arriving at the hospital.
He was a cool guy, a member of my biker-gang.
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
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"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
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H. Humbert
SFN Die Hard
USA
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 Posted - 05/19/2005 : 19:06:53 [Permalink]
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I'm terribly sorry for your loss, Mab. It's never easy to lose a friend, so I'll save the consoling platitudes.
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"A man is his own easiest dupe, for what he wishes to be true he generally believes to be true." --Demosthenes
"The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool." --Richard P. Feynman
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the_ignored
SFN Addict
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Posted - 05/19/2005 : 19:07:59 [Permalink]
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Shit. I'm sorry to hear that.
How are his friends, you and his family holding up?
If there's anything we can do to help, let us know.
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>From: enuffenuff@fastmail.fm
(excerpt follows):
> I'm looking to teach these two bastards a lesson they'll never forget.
> Personal visit by mates of mine. No violence, just a wee little chat.
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> **** has also committed more crimes than you can count with his
> incitement of hatred against a religion. That law came in about 2007
> much to ****'s ignorance. That is fact and his writing will become well
> know as well as him becoming a publicly known icon of hatred.
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> Good luck with that fuckwit. And Reynold, fucking run, and don't stop.
> Disappear would be best as it was you who dared to attack me on my
> illness knowing nothing of the cause. You disgust me and you are top of
> the list boy. Again, no violence. Just regular reminders of who's there
> and visits to see you are behaving. Nothing scary in reality. But I'd
> still disappear if I was you.
What brought that on? this. Original posting here.
Another example of this guy's lunacy here. |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
USA
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Dr. Mabuse
Septic Fiend
Sweden
9688 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 19:39:00 [Permalink]
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We're coping... Just have to.
Suddenly I feel like getting a new battery to my bike is not that important. He was a really likable guy, got along with everyone, and never backed off from defending friends if they got into trouble. I worked with him a few years, and when he got sacked he started working security. He had a sense of integrity, and could be relied upon to do "what was right".
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Dr. Mabuse - "When the going gets tough, the tough get Duct-tape..."
Dr. Mabuse whisper.mp3
"Equivocation is not just a job, for a creationist it's a way of life..." Dr. Mabuse
Support American Troops in Iraq:
Send them unarmed civilians for target practice..
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Dude
SFN Die Hard
USA
6891 Posts |
Posted - 05/19/2005 : 21:46:27 [Permalink]
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Sorry to hear it Mab.
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Ignorance is preferable to error; and he is less remote from the truth who believes nothing, than he who believes what is wrong.
-- Thomas Jefferson
"god :: the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument." - G. Carlin
Hope, n.
The handmaiden of desperation; the opiate of despair; the illegible signpost on the road to perdition. ~~ da filth |
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filthy
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 05/20/2005 : 00:55:13 [Permalink]
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Saddened to hear it, Doc. Life is short at best and It sounds like he lived his to the fullest.
"Ride hard, die free."
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"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolf Hitler (1889 - 1945)
"If only we could impeach on the basis of criminal stupidity, 90% of the Rethuglicans and half of the Democrats would be thrown out of office." ~~ P.Z. Myres
"The default position of human nature is to punch the other guy in the face and take his stuff." ~~ Dude
Brother Boot Knife of Warm Humanitarianism,
and Crypto-Communist! 
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beskeptigal
SFN Die Hard
USA
3834 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 01:43:25 [Permalink]
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| I am so sorry. Those bikes are just invisible to other drivers sometimes. What a sad thing. My heart goes out to all his loved ones and friends. |
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Chippewa
SFN Regular
USA
1496 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 03:46:20 [Permalink]
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| Really sorry to hear that. No man is an island... |
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tomk80
SFN Regular
Netherlands
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Posted - 05/20/2005 : 04:28:54 [Permalink]
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| My condolances. It is at times like this that words fall short. |
Tom
`Contrariwise,' continued Tweedledee, `if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.'
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Wendy
SFN Regular
USA
614 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 07:47:25 [Permalink]
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I am so sorry for your loss, Dr. Mabuse.
I used to ride with my brother, and I loved the freedom of it. He sold his motorcycle years ago after what he referred to as the "hundredth pants-shitting close call". People don't look for a bike.
My husband was hit by a car while bicycling. He was pulling his two small children behind the bike in one of those trailers made for that purpose. Thankfully, though the children were badly frightened, they were not injured. He suffered a broken elbow, several broken ribs, and lots of cuts from hitting and breaking the windshield. It could have been so much worse.
I haven't ridden my own bicycle for a couple of months. I've been telling myself it isn't because of a scare I had, but your thread has made me realize it probably was. In honor of your friend, I'm going to get my bike out of the garage this weekend and take her for a long spin.
I don't know if it's a consolation to you that he died doing something he enjoyed, but I hope that it is.
Please be careful out there.
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Millions long for immortality who don't know what to do on a rainy afternoon.
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Valiant Dancer
Forum Goalie
USA
4826 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 09:06:17 [Permalink]
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| Sorry to hear of your freind's passing. My heart goes out to you and yours as well as his family. |
Cthulhu/Asmodeus when you're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils
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Plyss
Skeptic Friend
Netherlands
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Posted - 05/20/2005 : 13:23:17 [Permalink]
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| I'm sorry to hear that. My condolences. |
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R.Wreck
SFN Regular
USA
1191 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 14:44:12 [Permalink]
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| My condolences Doc. You can never have enough friends and losing one sucks. |
The foundation of morality is to . . . give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating unintelligible propositions about things beyond the possibliities of knowledge.
T. H. Huxley
The Cattle Prod of Enlightened Compassion
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
USA
13477 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 16:42:51 [Permalink]
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| Oh geez Mab. Sorry to hear about your friend... |
Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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furshur
SFN Regular
USA
1536 Posts |
Posted - 05/20/2005 : 18:32:53 [Permalink]
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| I too am sorry for your loss. |
If I knew then what I know now then I would know more now than I know. |
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