Environmental Radical Killed by Avalanche (Irony of Ironies)

LA Times ^ | 2/5/2010

[ezfindit]

Tyler James Johnson, a Caltech graduate student who fled the U.S. after authorities identified him as an alleged conspirator in a case involving arson attacks at several San Gabriel Valley car dealerships six years ago, has died.

He was 30. According to an obituary posted on the website of the Michigan-based Staffan-Mitchell Funeral Home, Johnson was “killed from a fall due to an avalanche” on Dec. 26 during a solo expedition in the Corsican mountains of France.

Johnson became a fugitive after being named as a co-conspirator in the August 2003 firebombing of eight sport-utility vehicles at a West Covina auto dealership and another SUV parked on a residential street in Monrovia.

William Jensen Cottrell, then 24 and a doctoral candidate in physics, implicated Johnson in the bombing rampage, alleging that Johnson and another conspirator threw the Molotov cocktails that damaged or destroyed the cars.

[ezfindit]

How ironic!

[ezfindit]

I wonder what went through his mind as the environmentally friendly avalanche was smothering this idiot?

[SnakeDoctor]

How can a just mother nature allow such suffering for her own people?

SnakeDoc

[afraidfortherepublic]

Karma?

[RinaseaofDs]

Can’t believe they wasted a spot at Caltech on this guy.

[Question Liberal Authority]

I wonder what went through his mind as the environmentally friendly avalanche was smothering this idiot?

"Global Warming, due to Bush's unholy alliance with Halliburton!"

[sinanju]

It may be presumptuous of me but I get a distinct impression (reading between the lines) that his glamorous exile was well bankrolled by the parental units.

Something of an Ayers lite, if you will.

[US_MilitaryRules]

Sounds like a good way to fake your death.

[Tijeras_Slim]

No doubt.

[A_Tradition_Continues]

co-conspirator in the August 2003 firebombing of eight sport-utility vehicles

Revenge of the Chevrolet Avalanche.

[RippinGood]

I wonder what went through his mind as the environmentally friendly avalanche was smothering this idiot?

rocks

[MIchaelTArchangel]

As Howie Carr would say: “Is Ted in the house?”

[RW_Whacko]

Ijust LOVE happy endings!

[Kenton]

Mother Nature suffering menopause? Or does she just have a really ironic sense of humor?

[submarinerswife]

His ass.

[tflabo]

Fighting fire with snow——he may need that snow for where he may be going next!

[TexGuy]

...his arson convictions were overturned last year and his sentence vacated by a federal appeals court.

I thought it sounded like a faked death at first but then I read this in the article and now I'm pretty sure he probably faked his death and is a complete IDIOT as well. Of course, irony is probably the most likely winner here.

[TigersEye]

Karma.