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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | 3 time world surfing champion Andy Irons passed away today. Unbelievable!
Yeah. This is WAY off topic, but I know at least a few of you lot surf. |
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| Damn. From Dengue fever (probably), no less. Monster North Shore waves couldn't do him in, but something so prosaic does. Cherish every moment. |
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Location: Sydney, Australia | Hey Muzz, your location is incorrect (unless Australia has decided to colonize Samoa). |
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Location: NW of Philadelphia | It said he died in Texas on a layover... from a possible drug overdose no less. Sad.
RIP Andy. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Anyone out there have the nuts to do this...???
Andy Irons |
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Location: closely held secret | Well, I think you have the "nuts" part right... |
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Location: Bluffton, SC | Always wanted to give it a go but they don't have waves like that in Syracuse. |
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Location: Flahdaw | No, but you ARE getting a Walmart.... |
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| His death got a lot of coverage in the UK.
There again there are more freakin' ausssies in England than there are in Oz. |
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Location: big island | andy and his brother were both scammed out of a few million dollars by a mortgage broker who also arranged a mortgage for my condo on kauai. this guy scammed others also to the tune of $52,000,000 i think it was. the day he was due in court on kauai two years ago, it was discovered he drove himself off a cliff in washington state, where he was originally from. i had been directing an art gallery on kauai and this guy purchased several thousands of dollars in art from me. i had no idea he was playing with "funny money". |
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Location: big island | checkin' my facts, (which i shoulda done before posting) the mortgage broker (james lull) ponzi-schemed $30 million from about 50 people including the Irons boys. he was due in court in honolulu regarding this case the day he drove his truck off the cliff in washington. |
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Location: Flahdaw | Who kills themselves driving their car off a cliff? You could easily live and just be really messed up and in terrible pain for the rest of your life. AND get thrown in jail. I think he had secrets certain important people didn't want disclosed and a black suburban with government plates "accidentally" nudged him on a sharp curve. |
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Location: Sunshine State, Australia | Originally posted by lanaki:
he was due in court in honolulu regarding this case the day he drove his truck off the cliff in washington. Trying to save money by driving there??? |
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Couldn't get more OT - RIP A.I.
