aww man! Richard Jewell dead at 44 from diabetes complications

[DS1]

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/08/29/richard.jewell/index.html

I couldn't imagine getting raked over the media coals like that guy. I mean, just about every dude has a porn collection, but nobody ever needs to hear about their own on national tv!

[bridgit]

1. that's too bad, i remember them dragging him around for days...

safe passage Richard

[FloridaJudy]

2. I hope he got a *ton* of money

From the lawsuits, and had an opportunity to enjoy for a little while.

[Suich]

3. Oh, shoot!

I remember they took all his Mom's Tupperware, then when they returned it, there was fingerprint dust all over. She was really upset and didn't know what to do...Tupperware ended up replacing it all. Did he ever even get an apology from the FBI?

RIP Richard Jewell

[DS1]

4. Janet Reno apologized for all the leaking

but of course the media shut right up about it.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

5. Investigators suspect Richard Jewell is somehow involved.

:P

[KamaAina]

6. One of my dear friends once had the same attorney who got Jewell off

she died several years ago in a county jail cell in PA. :(

And now Jewell is dead as well. Is this attorney somehow cursed? :scared:

[EstimatedProphet]

8. I'd say the attorney's clients are cursed instead

[sasquatch]

12. What was she charged with?

If you don't want to say in public just PM it to me please.

[KamaAina]

18. So help me, I can't remember

and it was years after she'd left Atlanta, and Jewell's attorney.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

7. And that fucko Rudolph is alive and well.

Truly, there is no God.

[AngryAmish]

9. I always felt bad for the guy

We all know guys like Richard Jewell. Not very competent but have a Walter Mitty streak in them a mile wide. He maybe should not have been a police officer and that is why he got fired.

He gets a job at the Olympics because they need bodies. He sees something suspicious, follows his training and saves a bunch of lives.

This is it -- his moment of glory.

Then the f'n feds try to frame the guy and he gets trashed in the press.

When he got them back I really smiled. That was one for the underdog.

But where does he go from there?

He is just a few years older than me too. Maybe I need to eat better.

Sigh.

[DS1]

11. Why say he wasn't competent?

He gets a job at the Olympics because they need bodies. He sees something suspicious, follows his training and saves a bunch of lives.

[AngryAmish]

14. He got fired from a few police jobs pre-Olympics

[DarkTirade]

10. I remember him best from the political cartoon I saw about him...

it shows a big pile of ground meat, and someone from the media is handing him a little plaque with his name written on it... "Well, here's your good name back!"

[Elidor]

13. Poor guy got stomped pretty bad

I lived about a mile from him when all that went on. It was a three-ring circus down there at his apartment complex. And then the awkward acknowledgement from the FBI and the media. I'd always known the FBI is peopled with lots of thugs and bullies, but it was one of the first times that I clearly perceived the media whores for what they really are. I can still hear my mother going on about what a disgusting man he was...followed later by her astonishment when he was cleared, and her outrage at how she had been duped by the teevee. The man was a hero, and he dies a hero. Godspeed, Mr. Jewell. You deserved better.

[seemunkee]

15. Damn, Kidney failure

Same thing happened to my dad, same age too.

[dembotoz]

16. best health care system in the world????????????

BS
Way too young-this sort of stuff should not be happening.

[seemunkee]

17. If you don't take care of your diabetes it happens

I'm not saying this was Jewel's situation but my dad was a diabetic and a very heavy drinker. He didn't learn from losing his eyesight and all the circulation problems in his feet.

[dembotoz]

20. had a friend who was diabetic and scattered work history

meaning inconsistant insurance
meaning inconsistant treatment
meaning faster progression
meaning shorter life

[seemunkee]

21. I see your point

Sorry
:hug:

[soleft]

19. Rosie blogged about him

www.rosie.com