Posted on 03/02/2005 3:22:23 AM PST by Jet Jaguar
Perhaps it's time to determine if this was really a self inflicted gunshot?
With every bit of news that comes out about this situation, the more self-absorbed this fool shows himself to be. It's obvious that he tried very hard to make his suicide appear archetypal. How amazingly pompous and overly self-entralled. In the end, he's just like all the other weaklings who blew out their brains because they just didn't have the fortitude to face the realities of life and couldn't handle that they weren't the center of the universe.
Good riddance to a journalistic and, indeed a human, waste.
Sounds like a job for CSI... Is the residue on Juan's hands from shotgun powder, or from handgun ammo, or both...
Hunter S. Thompson's body was found in a chair in the kitchen in front of his typewriter...Yeah, but his head was on the other side of the room.
He shoulda just thrown a live tape player into the bathtub. Woulda been easier to clean.
Well, none of us knows for sure if this was murder or suicide, but a few questions by law enforcement do seem appropriate. Initially, suicide seemed so believable; it seemed exactly like what we'd expect from this man. And maybe I'm just an odd duck, but had my father killed himself with a pistol the first thing I'd have done would not have been go outside and pop off three blasts from my shotgun. It just seems way too convenient to explain powder residue on Juan's hands.
Would have been better if he typed:
"Bang"
Reminds me of Heathers where whats-his-name underlines the word "Eskimo" in Moby Dick.
Or: "This might sting a little bit"
Sounds like he hated the scarf.
My favorite suicide note (not that I collect them) was from a college professor who blew his brains out with a shotgun. In his pocket they found a slip of paper that read, "Messy, isnt it?"
The man was a full blown alcoholic. Why do we debate the actions of an alcoholic when it is virtually impossible (as well of a waste of time) to try and interpret it? The man was throwing the ultimate temper tantrum and like a child the message was "LOOK AT ME, LOOK AT ME." The end of a tragic and ultimately self destructive life.
Initial autopsy report showed that Thompson had dandruff.
Found his head & shoulders in the other side of the room.
Or, "Sorry about the mess."
Since thought moves at a pretty high speed I wonder if people......when the bullet is moving up the barrel....have time to think..."OH shit. Bad idea"
At least he kept his dignity, unlike all us rubes.
/sarcasm
well more dignified then hanging yourself I suppose.....your spincter does not release automatically. But then, if you are dead.....who cares
Sounds like they intentionally destroyed evidence as well. I knew that when the police arrived they found the family sitting around the body having a cocktail. I didn't realise they had garbed the corpse up into some macabre mannequin.
I just wonder what HST's BAC was at the time of his death. And I wonder what the word "Counselor" meant... I suppose it meant call his lawyer. I wonder if there had been disagreements in the family, whether there was any hanky-panky between the son and the trophy wife, and what he and the wife had been discussing, since she said "he knew I was opposed to it."
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