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Thompsons remains kill bystander in freak accident

#3823202 - 02/23/05 04:13 PM (18 years, 3 months ago)

Associated Press 1 hour 27 minutes ago-

Thompson's remains kill bystander in freak accident

Hunter S Thompson wanted to go out with a blast, and did. Ending in Tragedy for a 47 year old Aspen Resident Shirley McCracken.

The famous author of such works as Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, and Hells Angels, commited suicide by a self inflicted gunshot wound to the head.
His final wish was to have his cremated body shot out of a cannon. His family complying with his wishes, did just that.

As the sun set, Hunters Family and friends gathered atop the Rocky mountains, and read a passage from his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

there was madness in any direction, at any hour... You could strike sparks anywhere. There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was `right', that we were winning... And that, I think, was the handle -- the sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn't need that. Our energy would simply `prevail'. There was no point in fighting -- on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave... So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark -- the place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.

than the cannon was fired. Directly into Shirley McCracken who had just reached the peak of Mt. Elbert. The blast did not kill her on impact, but resulted in a fall to her death. She left 2 children.

Sheriff Walt Goodman, said that no-one would be charged with in the accident.
"I saw the whole thing, she just came over the ridge, and POW. Hunter was all over her like white on rice. Than the poor lady just fell off"

Ronald Pinski- Associated press

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