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Dick Smothers Jr., adult film actor and son of veteran humorist Dick Smothers of the Smothers Brothers, is shown with co-star Rebecca Love in a scene from the adult film 'Sex for Sale'. Smothers Jr. has starred in several adult films and hopes to capitalize on the Smothers name and expand his involvement in porn films to the entire creative process. (Cable Entertainment Distributors via Reuters)

Good job Dick, Jr.

[lodwick]

A young man taking part in an Earth First protest near Mount Madonna County Park died Tuesday night after falling about 100 feet from a redwood tree where he had been living.

The man, who remained unidentified as of late Wednesday, is the first tree-sitter in California to die after tumbling from a tree.

``We're pretty much in shock and trying to decide what to do,'' said Tim Ward, a member of the Santa Cruz contingent of Earth First.

Ward said the man was in his mid-20s and had recently come to Santa Cruz. He was homeless, Ward said, before deciding to join a tree-sit protest against Redwood Empire, the San Jose-based firm now logging the approximately 50-acre site.

``We've been trying to find out what caused him to fall,'' Ward said.

Well, doh...read this thread and learn something.