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nick farley
climber
bishop
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Mar 14, 2012 - 11:52pm PT
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This afternoon, Joe Szot died at the base of the route Eastertime Too, at the cliff Near Trapps, in the 'Gunks.
Joe was a beloved member of the climbing community.
At age 51, Joe apparently suffered a heart attack.
Many many climbers and rescuers all came running to help their friend today, but he was gone so quickly there was nothing anyone could do.
Rest in Peace Joe Szot.
My sincere condolences to Joe's family and friends.
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Truthdweller
Trad climber
San Diego, CA
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Mar 15, 2012 - 12:44am PT
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Okay, here's another for entertainment purposes:
At a house fire we find the male occupant sitting out in the front yard, his multiple layers of clothes still smoking with an O2 mask already on his face. We recognize him to be an disabled adult that we frequently run on. Firefighters are already on scene and are motioning inside the house. The Captain appears anxious to show us something. "You've got to see this!"
We enter the front door into the entry way with the kitchen to our right. Cap pulls down the oven door and shows us the origin of the fire. The oven is filled with folded news papers from the top rack to the bottom. The living room is packed from the carpet to the celing with boxes. But, so far, I'm not convinced this is what the Cap wanted to show us. Cap continues to give us the tour.
I turn to my left and find VCR's stacked against the hallway and soon notice that the four foot high, eight foot wide stack are all pornography tapes. Next to these is a relatively smaller stack of 8" x 3" thin cotton pads that appear to be "stained." I look at Cap and he's shaking his head.
"Are those what I think they are?" I ask. Cap turns and points out the front screen door, "You see that building over there?" Cap asks. "That's a OB/GYN clinic. This guy goes over to the dumpsters and collects these things as well!"
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 15, 2012 - 12:53am PT
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RJ,
Dang bro, that's must have looked pretty twisted and been severely heartwrenching. No doubt an overwhelming and traumatic experience to witness on the first morning at yer new digs. Hope ya gave the chickens a proper and respectful burial.
Thanks for sharing...
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2012 - 12:53am PT
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Man, RIP Joe.
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad surfing the galactic plane
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Mar 15, 2012 - 12:58am PT
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Sorry to hear of Joe's passing also. It kind of puts all else into perspective. Only 51 yrs. young. RIP
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 15, 2012 - 12:29pm PT
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i'd hate to have missed the last four and a half years.
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Karl Baba
Trad climber
Yosemite, Ca
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Mar 15, 2012 - 02:01pm PT
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My heart goes out to all those in pain and suffering in this tragic yet beautiful Life
and indeed we see that the pain in the victimizers is great as well.
May all find healing and transformation
May you all have peace and love in your lives
Baba
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em kn0t
Trad climber
isle of wyde
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Mar 15, 2012 - 11:51pm PT
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Some truly disturbing stories of the dark side of human nature, as painful to hear as they must be to remember. I admire those who've had the courage to shine a light on, and speak out against, abuse in whatever form.
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Branscomb
Trad climber
Lander, WY
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Mar 16, 2012 - 12:11pm PT
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Beng a lab tech in hospitals, you see some pretty strange stuff. Used to work at the Ketchikan General Hospital. It's kinda grim up there in the winter, the unrelenting rain and short days. Lot of people don't have work in the winter and get depressed. Lots of drugs and booze.
Brought one guy in ER one night, gun shot wound to the head, CPR in route. After they got him on the table, they went to pull the back board out and what remained of his brain fell out on the floor. Whole back side of his head was gone. Frank, the night supervisor, looked at me and said something about guess we really don't need any lab work. Yeah.
Only hospital I ever worked where they had a rubber room in the ER. And they used it a lot in the winter. One night they brought a teen aged girl over on the police boat from Metlakatla. She was absolutely wild, musta been on speed or coke or LSD or alcohol or all of the above. They shoved her in the room and she bounced off the walls in there for a good half hour screaming like some wild animal. We just watched through the window till she got tired out. Then we filed in real quiet and got her to lay down on the table (fixed to the floor)so the doc could check her out. There was a straight-jacket built into the table and about 6 of us proceeded to quietly lace her in before she figured out what was going on. She needed restraint because she had beat herself up bloody in there. When she figured out what we were doing she almost tore out of that jacket. Screaming and spitting clawing and you just knew you were watching someone go really insane.
I guess those are the most disturbing things I've witnessed.
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Fluoride
Trad climber
West Los Angeles, CA
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Mar 19, 2012 - 03:10pm PT
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I wasn't witness to it but Jay might be able to fill us in more.
If what I heard was correct from several sources, this person needs to be outed. And I know who he is and the climber in question is one of the best that there is.
Hint - they are among the few and proud OW'ers. He is American as they come. And she is one and only.
Disgusting what he did to her (and Jay is being kind he did worse, way worse).
She's among the elite.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 19, 2012 - 09:21pm PT
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Thanks Beth.
Careful who you tie in with out there, folks, if this can happen to someone so many of know,it can happen to anyone!
Some of these guys seem pretty normal at first, in a dirtbag kind of way, anyway....
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Dr.Sprock
Boulder climber
I'm James Brown, Bi-atch!
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Mar 19, 2012 - 11:13pm PT
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i saw a guy who had lived in north dakota all his life,
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2012 - 12:45am PT
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Oh Jody, come back!!
That was so poignant. I think you have a lot to add here.
I remember that story of yours from years ago about the guy who still had the beer can clenched in his dead fingers, after a fatal crash. That image stayed with me. I thought of it when I stopped drinking.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2012 - 01:07am PT
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Up to you of course, but I thought the part about how you put that incident into parallels from your own life was something a lot of people can relate to.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Mar 20, 2012 - 11:01am PT
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Thanx Jody
Who was the guy, the one that introduced the word "Beta" in it's colloquial sense, to the climbing lexicon, Who was murdered by his stalker?
Pretty sure there was talk of it here on the taco, but I couldn't find it.
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laughingman
Mountain climber
Seattle WA
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Mar 20, 2012 - 11:30am PT
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Have a friend who grew up in Beirut lebanon in the 1980s he saw some super messed up stuff. For example a dude got thrown out of a high rise building. Personally I seen several bad car crashes with blood and all. I have also seen several fights that got really bad, really fast.
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otisdog
Big Wall climber
Sierra Madre & McGee Creek, Ca.
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Mar 20, 2012 - 12:39pm PT
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I was one of the first people to arrive at the scene of the "Gamblers Special" tour bus crash in the Walker river north of Bridgeport on the 1986 Memorial Day weekend in which 21 people died..as a Forest Ranger (hot chick!) and I worked to get survivors out of the partially submerged and destroyed bus, people would pull over, snap a few pictures, then jump back into their cars and continue on their merry way. Waaay disturbing!
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Mar 20, 2012 - 12:56pm PT
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Disturbing events?
Like half the arrests in the incarceration nation being for drugs, and pot being a schedule one drug while alcohol continues to be a much larger problem to society?
Disturbing events like that?
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