Posted on 05/14/2012 2:20:00 PM PDT by BerryDingle
PIERRE PART, La. (AP) — A Louisiana sheriff says a cast member of the reality TV show "Swamp People" has died.
Assumption Parish Sheriff Mike Waguespack says Mitchell Guist (GIHST) was pronounced dead at a hospital Monday. He had fallen while aboard his boat on the Intracoastal Waterway, near Pierre Part.
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I used to have a bumper sticker that said “I brake for road kill” so don’t jump my ass. If you had to pay workmans comp on a logging crew you might understand. I may have the wrong show as I do live in the sticks and don’t have cable. I was spending time with mom and may have got the show title wrong. I thought it was one of the logging shows they have on discovery channel. Swamp loggers mabey? Anyway at least half the viewers of these shows are city folk who like to poke fun at country people, no matter how many teeth they have in their head.
RIP.
The only logging the brothers did on TV was for their own use to repair their porch. That said they had far more smarts and know how than most likely gave them credit for. Living off the land is not an easy life as one might think. But he got to live the life he enjoyed. Many don’t get the chance to be as free as the brother are.
You were definately watching Ax Men which is a logging show in various settings. Swamp People is about Gator hunters all except Glenn and Mitchell. Yea the ones in Florida on Ax Men do seem rather dysfunctional. But the guy on Swamp People who just passed seemed to really be a good man.
There's no confirmed age yet, or confirmed cause of death.
Most people who live like that are. Sorry, my bad.
I used to work for a tree company when I was in my 20s and 30s called Asplundh Tree Expert Co. in the Erie PA area and I have a few chainsaw bites on me as well.
Very dangerous indeed lost a good friend several years back because of a chain saw.
Now as for Swamp People they do what they do because thats how it is done and thats how they live.
The 2 brothers were my heroes LOL.
I liked that program for a while but the more I watched it and studied the different camera angles, especially those underwater scenes designed to add drama, I've come to the conclusion that most of it is just that, hollywood created drama.
I'm guessing mid to late fifties.
For the most part I don’t think the need to “create drama” exists when people are catching alligators pretty much by hand LOL. That being said, I had noticed the addition of underwater camera shots which I find somewhat distracting although it seems to be done to add some suspense. Meh - I don’t think the show benefits by it.
The reporter showed up to his house and starts the interview.
First questions was what do you contribute your long life to, answer I don't exercise, I smoke a pack of cigarettes a day,drink a quart of moon shine each day and have sex twice a day.
The reported goes wow and you lived a long life.
The old guy says yea 39 is pretty dam old.
Anyway, a major reason why I watched the show. Funny as heck.
Yeah, you've gotta love that floating hoist rig they used to lift the submerged cypress trunk. I lived down there and know those waters - some of those home-built pontoon rigs are three generations old.
The Navy at one point used the basic concept for submarine rescue ships. Granted you have to take into account the obvious unknowns when lifting a log though.
no he is right. There was one show where they were dragging huge gigantic logs OUT OF THE SWAMP and saying the logs were worth $1000.
Some say, though, that the mission didn't fail as described - but that the boat was retrieved intact.
I guess the huge scale of submarine rescue gear blinded me to the obvious similarities that it has to the lifting rigs in Louisiana (which appear to be designed by The Professor from Gilligan's Island, rather than a bunch of engineers paid by Howard Hughes). ;-)
I just found an article that says he was less than a week shy of being 49. http://www.knoxville.com/news/2012/may/14/knoxville-celebrities-swamp-people-guist-dies/
you know, here in Asia, we get anti American propaganda on CNN and the BBC, and MTV and the other network shows often show the evil side of the USA: promiscuous women, greedy men, vulgar language, and if I were black, I’d sue them for their mainly one sided view of black America (Hispanic and Asian America are almost absent on these shows)...
But on the other hand, we have the greatest catch, swords, swamp people, dirty jobs etc. that give people a view of real Americans...who work hard for a living and are proud to do it.
Bless this guy and his family.
Mitchell was 4 days short of his 48th birthday...RIP Mitchell...and condolences to your family...
Are you serious? That’s only a year older than me, good grief I feel old now...
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