Friday, March 8, 2013

Poor Bastard Of The Moment (Well, At Least As Of Last Thursday): Jeff Bush

He's the man who was swallowed up in a sinkhole in Florida doing nothing but sleeping in his bed.  His family tried to save him, but it was too late: He got sucked into the hole that is estimated to be 30 feet deep.

When rescuers sent a camera down, they heard and saw no signs of life.  And they abandoned trying to rescue or retrieve Mr. Bush, saying it's too dangerous to recover the body.

I do not want to minimize his death; it is tragic, moreso because he did nothing to deserve it.  But dammit, what a way to go: Sucked into a sinkhole.  This is one of those things people talk about years after it happened.  One day we'll hear another story about a sinkhole and a bizarre way someone died and we'll go, "Hey, remember a few years back when a sinkhole opened up and just swallowed a guy to death?"  And do you know what we'll say then?

Poor bastard.

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