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ZRX61
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by ZRX61 Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:09 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:13 pm weeksy wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:55 pm
You mean Sportsman? TV personality?
Why go from the negative?
Yeah, he was never convicted, at least stick to the facts, he was an armed robber and kidnapper
He was found liable for the deaths in the civil trial, then spent the rest of his life doing everything he could to avoid paying.
Odd that his blood/DNA was found at the murder scene...
MrLongbeard
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by MrLongbeard Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:27 pm
ZRX61 wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:09 pm MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:13 pm weeksy wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:55 pm
You mean Sportsman? TV personality?
Why go from the negative?
Yeah, he was never convicted, at least stick to the facts, he was an armed robber and kidnapper
He was found liable for the deaths in the civil trial, then spent the rest of his life doing everything he could to avoid paying.
Odd that his blood/DNA was found at the murder scene...
A civil trail ain't worth shit, I ain't saying he did or didn't do it, just that he wasn't convicted.
Taipan
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by Taipan Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:04 pm
I think to most people he'll always be the murderer that got away with it. Anyway, I'll certainly not lament his passing no doubt the same as the others whose lives he ruined...
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Bigjawa
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by Bigjawa Thu Apr 11, 2024 9:55 pm
weeksy wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:55 pm ZRX61 wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:44 pm
Murderer O J Simpson, at 76 from Cancer.
You mean Sportsman? TV personality?
Why go from the negative?
That's like saying Kelvin MacKenzie is an award winning journalist and a great newspaper editor......
ZRX61
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by ZRX61 Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:36 pm
MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 6:27 pm
A civil trail ain't worth shit, I ain't saying he did or didn't do it, just that he wasn't convicted.
He was judged by a jury of blithering fucking idiots. If it happened today he'd be doing life.
Mr. Dazzle
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by Mr. Dazzle Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:02 am
Taipan wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 7:04 pm
I think to most people he'll always be the murderer that got away with it.
TBF he did also get 33 years for kidnapping and robbery later (as already mentioned), albeit he only served about 10 of them IIRC.
LOL at "starting from the negative". Pretty sure the negative aspects of his life outweigh the positive now.
McNab
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by McNab Fri Apr 12, 2024 10:41 am
Le_Fromage_Grande wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 10:55 pm
At least OJ can rest knowing his wife's killer is dead.
You are a bad man
Yorick
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by Yorick Sun Apr 14, 2024 3:44 pm
Pat Hennen. Was a great racer who's career was ended at the TT
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mangocrazy
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by mangocrazy Sun Apr 14, 2024 6:08 pm
I was over in the Island for the Formula1 TT on the Saturday (which Mike Hailwood won, and was the reason I was there) and also on the Monday for the Senior TT, in which Pat Hennen crashed and which Tom Herron won. After the euphoria of Mike's win it was a nasty shock to hear of Pat's crash. I'm sure that the motorcycle racing history books would be very different had he not had that crash.
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Saga Lout
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by Saga Lout Mon Apr 15, 2024 7:46 am
MrLongbeard wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 4:13 pm weeksy wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:55 pm ZRX61 wrote: Thu Apr 11, 2024 3:44 pm
Murderer O J Simpson, at 76 from Cancer.
You mean Sportsman? TV personality?
Why go from the negative?
Yeah, he was never convicted, at least stick to the facts, he was an armed robber and kidnapper
Because you can't libel the dead?
cheb
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by cheb Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:25 pm
RIP calculator and wierd electric trike man
KungFooBob
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by KungFooBob Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:27 pm
cheb wrote: Mon Apr 15, 2024 4:25 pm
RIP calculator and wierd electric trike man
That was Clive. He died in 2021.
Druid
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by Druid Fri Apr 19, 2024 12:08 pm
ZRX61 wrote: Thu Apr 18, 2024 9:34 pm Dickey Betts.
Hugely talented and much under rated guitarist
