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http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/09/britain.pensioner/index.html

Wheeeee!

At least he lived a long life, and died having fun.

Far better than dying of cancer...

Go that old man. What way to go

I see no tragedy here.

I see nothing to pity.

In fact, I see a man to admire and miss. Sounds to me like the world is a little darker for losing him.

More old folks should be like him. Have some fun, take some risks, die without regrets. And dead people can't sponge off of social security!:p

I feel oddly sorry for him.
All he wanted was a bit of fun I suppose-and I sometimes wish I was younger.

But still...better to die like that than of something incredibly painful or a nasty wasting-away-sort-of-disease.
And yeah,perhaps the world is that little bit darker without him.

That's sad.

I'm with LG.

*smacks Greater Alemannia with the sharp blade of a saw*

I see no tragedy here.

I see nothing to pity.

In fact, I see a man to admire and miss. Sounds to me like the world is a little darker for losing him.
*sniff*

True words...

80 years, dude. Cheers!

This guy is like my new hero. When I go, I want it to be after shouting "Wheeeee!" I wish I had known him....

*agrees with LG*

This guy is like my new hero. When I go, I want it to be after shouting "Wheeeee!" I wish I had known him....
"Wheeeeeee!" does rank up there (for me as at least) as last words go.

If I believed in an after life I'd have to believe that his mother was waiting with an "I told you so" that she had loaded up for 80 years now..."Yeah, but I had fun, dammit."

I wonder if it will effect sales of Nintendo's Wii...:eek:

I wonder if it will effect sales of Nintendo's Wii...:eek:

lolomg.

Using a video of that guys death as a commercial!

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/europe/06/09/britain.pensioner/index.html

Wheeeee!
Are you going to be one of those bitter old people who says things like, "These kids today..." and don't tip when you go out to eat and never smile?

At least he was happy & doing something he enjoyed when he died.

I can think of no better way to die.

Well, it seems he had style. May his reincarnation be in a better place, as an even better person. :)

This story amuses me.

YAY Old man! That's how I'd be when Im 80, without the dying part. Sad to see him go.

I agree...Tommrrow, everyone should go to a nearby store and follow in this guys footsteps....Without the coma and dying part.

damn old people.

wearing their pants too high and riding their shopping carts above the speed limit.

I see no tragedy here.

I see nothing to pity.

In fact, I see a man to admire and miss. Sounds to me like the world is a little darker for losing him.
QFT.

I see no tragedy here.

I see nothing to pity.

In fact, I see a man to admire and miss. Sounds to me like the world is a little darker for losing him.
He's also raised the bar for silly, yet cool ways to die.
Of course, you've still got 40+ years to come up with a better one, LG.

When I'm 80 I want to die skateboarding with the then-equivalent of Linkin Park on my ghetto blaster :D

Or I'll think of an even better one in the meantime. Whatever I do I want to embarrass kids horribly by being fashionable :p

In the meantime I move that this man be beatified as an example to all pensioners to get out more (mean perhaps but I know WAy too many pensioners who harly leave their homes).

I can't believe nobody has brought this up yet;

http://www.filmwise.com/visual/crash_01/image_21.jpg

" If you want to believe in something, then believe in it! Just because something isn't true, that's no reason you can't believe in it! Sometimes the things that may or may not be true are the things a man needs to believe in the most. That people are basically good. That honour, courage and virtue mean everything ; that power and money ... money and power mean nothing. That good always triumphs over evil. And I want you to remember this.... that love....true love never dies ! Remember that boy ... remember that. Doesn't matter if it is true or not, a man should believe in those things , because those are the things worth believing in...... got that?"

-From Second Hand Lions...