[LibWhacker]

R.I.P. An inspirational rags-to-riches story. 'Course, the web's liberal scum are making him out to be some kind of bad guy... Just because he became wealthy. May they all choke on their bile.

[rocksblues]

Saw the article in Readers Digest. Good man, may he rest in peace!

[LetsRok]

What are they saying? Did he make his billions on the backs of illegal mexican roofers working for $10/hr with no benefits?

[Free Vulcan]

Oh man. This guy has done alot of local investment here in SE Iowa.

[L,TOWM]

I'll give the writer some credit for irony:

"It doesn't make any difference to me: I can't spend it," Hendricks said in an interview with Inc.com in September 2006.

Sadly that is a completely true statement today.

"I'd have to sell the company, and I'll sell the company over my dead body."

Now it will be the Estate Attorneys and Taxmen that will sell the company (literally) over your dead body, sir.

Sad day for the man's family and the employees of the company. Let the circling of the buzzards begin.

[gridlock]

"It doesn't make any difference to me: I can't spend it," Hendricks said in an interview with Inc.com in September 2006. "I'd have to sell the company, and I'll sell the company over my dead body."

They will probably have to sell the company over his dead body to pay the taxes. Falling through a roof is a taxable event, don'tcha know. I figure it cost him about a $10,000,000.00 a foot, all the way down.

[LiveFree99]

Some business magazine (forget which one) recently named him as Businessman of the Year. IIRC, not only was he in the roofing supply business, he was also buying distressed local companies and turning them around.

[Cicero]

Too bad. I give him credit for continuing to work. I’m sure it made for a happier and more fullfilling life.

[Calvin Locke]

Didn't a former NFL player fall off his roof in Wisconsin, too, earlier in the year?

When it rains, it pours bodies, I guess.

About twenty years ago, UVM had a spate of frat boys falling from their respective houses.

[nothingnew]

Just "damn".

RIP

FMCDH(BITS)

[USMCPOP]

There’s a pretty good profile of the man here: http://www.abcsupply.com/uploadedFiles/ABC/Media/07-07%20RSI%20Profile.pdf

All of his 6,000 employees had his cell phone number. He drove a Jeep Cherokee...

[Arthur McGowan]

A good antidote to envy of the rich. This could have happened to anyone, but it’s always healthy to remember, as this man himself did—there’s only so much you can spend, or at least, only so much you can actually enjoy. A billionaire can’t eat a thousand times as much as millionaire.

[Kevmo]

Definition of irony, like the fire station burning down.

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According to Intrade, the winner of the December 12th GOP debate was... Duncan Hunter.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1938773/posts

[spunkets]

Looks like it was new construction. In oredr to fall through, the deck matl’s have to be shoddy. Wonder what that was?

[G8 Diplomat]

Now that’s irony.

RIP though...very tragic.