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Permalink Reply by cutifly on April 18, 2011 at 12:33pm

Even worse is when your totally rich.

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Permalink Reply by Anne Alt on April 18, 2011 at 12:40pm

Very sad.

 

I'm also a Nutella fan.  Fabulous stuff!

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Permalink Reply by mike w. on April 18, 2011 at 2:15pm

i believe that "falling off" is a British euphemism for "crashing." i've seen it used in that context. i've also heard the phrase "came off (one's) bike."

H3N3 said:

I think the only thing worse than meeting this sort of end is when you're reported to have "fallen off" your bike.  As if you were just sort of sitting there cluelessly teetering like Humpty-Dumpty and then suddenly succumbed to gravity.

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Permalink Reply by Julie Aberman (Hochstadter) on April 18, 2011 at 3:10pm

I read about this earlier. So sad.

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Permalink Reply by chixieonfixie on April 18, 2011 at 3:28pm

I wonder if he was wearing a helmet.

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Permalink Reply by Kevin C Dormant on April 18, 2011 at 4:05pm

The BBC News account is reported thusly.

Sounds like a sudden vascular event. Tough to say if the fall was the cause or a cause of the death, or merely the result of "the ailment."

 

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Permalink Reply by buddaa38 on April 18, 2011 at 11:29pm

 

Wow, VERY SAD! That just shows that you don't know how long one has here!

My thoughts go out to his family.

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