Celebrity Deaths
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Basketball legend Jerry West died yesterday. He was 86.
West won a gold medal on the 1960 US Olympic team before being drafted by the Lakers. He was an All Star for all 14 seasons as a player. He then became the team's head coach, scout and finally GM where he built the showtime Lakers of the 80s. He's also a three-time inductee into the Hall of Fame.
His most famous accolade (and the one he was most embarrassed about) was that he was used as the inspiration for the player silhouette on the current NBA logo.
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From the bizarre deaths folder...
An Indonesian woman has been killed and eaten by a 16 foot python. The woman went missing from her village and her worried husband went looking for her. He found some of her belongings in the jungle and then spotted the snake with a large bulge in its center. The python was cut open and the woman's body was found inside.
Presumably the snake got the jump on her and coiled her up so she couldn't breath. After she died it swallowed her whole, head first. The killing would have taken around 5 minutes while the consumption would have lasted around an hour.
Two years ago, another Indonesian woman working on a rubber plantation met the same fate. That time it was a 24 foot python.
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What a horrible death, being smothered to death by a python and your dead body being eaten by same python. 😱😳😫 Poor Husband having to see his Wife's dead body in a python! 😱😳😫 Poor Woman in Indonesia who died the same way, by a python! 😱😳😫
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The Monty Python isn't nearly so lethal!
Quote: MDawgSo Jerry West followed Bill Walton in passing?
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YIKES, two Basketball Legends dead within three weeks of each other! 🥶
Quote: NathanQuote: MDawgSo Jerry West followed Bill Walton in passing?
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YIKES, two Basketball Legends dead within three weeks of each other! 🥶
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Who will be third????
Quote: JohnzimboQuote: NathanQuote: MDawgSo Jerry West followed Bill Walton in passing?
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YIKES, two Basketball Legends dead within three weeks of each other! 🥶
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Who will be third????
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I don't know if you think this counts but...
Hall of Fame basketball coach Robert Hughes died last Tuesday in Fort Worth, Texas at the age of 96.
Out of college, Hughes was drafted by the Celtics but failed to make the team. He instead became coach of the all-Black I. M. Terrell High School in Texas, and in just five years from 1963 to 1967 he led the team to three championships. The school was shut down in 1973 after segregation ended in Texas, and Hughes moved to Dunbar High School in the Fort Worth Independent School District.
In his 32 years at Dunbar, Hughes cemented himself as one of the greatest coaches in high school basketball. He led the school’s teams to 30 straight playoff appearances, including 12 final fours, and racked up 1,333 wins, the most in boys’ basketball history. Between his two schools, Hughes won five state championships overall. Despite all his wins, Hughes said that turning boys into confident young men was his proudest achievement.
A documentary of his life was released in the early 2000's.
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Speaking of the early 2000's in Texas, from the bizarre deaths folder we have...
In 2003 Dr. Hitoshi Nikaidoh was decapitated as he stepped onto an elevator at Christus St. Joseph Hospital in Houston, Texas. According to a witness inside the elevator, the doors closed as Nikaidoh entered, trapping his head inside the lift with the remainder of his body still outside. The car then ascended to a higher floor. The surgeon's body was later found at the bottom of the elevator shaft while the upper portion of his head, severed just above the lower jaw, was left in the elevator.
A subsequent investigation revealed that improper electrical wiring installed by a maintenance company several days earlier had effectively bypassed all the elevator's safeguards, thus enabling it to move under any circumstances.
