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life is short

spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
edited August 2017 in General Discussion
young friend/neighbor here ..mid 40's built up a multimillion dollar fertilizer business from scratch, resturant/bar, other business interests and was a basketball official and elected twice as one of the youngest county commissioners was found monday morning after not showing at work and found drowned in his pond underneath a mower that slid in......bummer
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    No one ever predicts things like that
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • mogley98mogley98 Member Posts: 18,291 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    PS: also sorry to hear about your neighbor
    Why don't we go to school and work on the weekends and take the week off!
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  • yoshmysteryoshmyster Member Posts: 22,071 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    "found drowned in his pond underneath a mower that slid in" sounds more like murder. Did any fertilizer go missing? I'm wondering if the left is gonna do the OKC?
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    naah simple accident....one employee and secretary went looking... he survived a house fire couple years ago started when he parked a jeep in the garage and it caught fire and a friend beat on the door loud enuff to wake him and he got out just in time...built a new house and dug the pond out deep... have elected 2 of 3 commissioners being much younger than our county history and has worked out good ...have no clue who will be selected to fill in....
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  • discusdaddiscusdad Member Posts: 11,427 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    had a good friend die the same way. mowing the grass that bordered his lake, got to close to the edge, tractor overturned, crushed him.
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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    That's why you have to have fun every day. Much of this is attitude. Because you never know[:(]
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  • 1911a1-fan1911a1-fan Member Posts: 51,193 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    multimillion dollar fertilizer business ?


    hell it wouldn't take me that much and i would never cut grass again


    a friend of a friend got 600k in a lawsuit and was to cheap to hire a tree trimmer, he decided to do it himself and fell 40' out of a tree, now is a quadriplegic and drinks dinner through a straw
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    never did like laddders so i built up a bucket truck to work on irrigation systems and some tree work..cut the front 30" off a 74 dodge 2 ton single axle farm truck bed and mounted the stand in the middle ,the generator on the left and a fuel tank on the right ...can swing the boom to the side and still raise the bed... bought the truck with 27K miles on it in the 80s and hauled grain first to town...alltek shootin boom..it has 31K actual miles on it now ...should last till i croak
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  • Ditch-RunnerDitch-Runner Member Posts: 25,380 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    sorry for your loss
    truly a sad story

    I have seen several news reports over the last couple years tractor turns over in a ditch or close to a pond and the driver drown . sad to think of the risk we take getting too conformable in daily task
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  • BrookwoodBrookwood Member, Moderator Posts: 13,768 ******
    edited November -1
    [V]quote:Originally posted by 1911a1-fan
    multimillion dollar fertilizer business ?


    hell it wouldn't take me that much and i would never cut grass again


    a friend of a friend got 600k in a lawsuit and was to cheap to hire a tree trimmer, he decided to do it himself and fell 40' out of a tree, now is a quadriplegic and drinks dinner through a straw


    Wow! Sounds like a fate worse than death![V]

    My lawn tractor likes to pop wheelies as I cut the grass going up my steep hill. I am very careful not to go sideways along the slope and will run the entire length even if the grass there has already been cut.

    Sorry to hear such news about your friend and neighbor.
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  • jltrentjltrent Member Posts: 9,344 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Damn[:(]
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  • TerantTerant Member Posts: 80 ✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by spasmcreek
    young friend/neighbor here ..mid 40's built up a multimillion dollar fertilizer business from scratch, resturant/bar, other business interests and was a basketball official and elected twice as one of the youngest county commissioners was found monday morning after not showing at work and found drowned in his pond underneath a mower that slid in......bummer


    Heard the story on the news in Wichita. Sorry to hear about it.
    A country with uncontrolled borders is not a country, but an uncontrolled region.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    viewing at the mortuary tomorrow and the funeral Friday.. it will be held in the open service area of his business building maybe 75x150 (guess) and i bet filled..service will be live cast on the the chapel Facebook page at 10 am Friday...that's two younger to die in accidents here lately...first was the fire chief and they had his funeral there also ...back then he and i were visiting at the liars club and he went east and i went west and 30 minures later he was gone .. skid steer accident.....
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