RIP thread

[ball7]

NFL player Edwin Jackson has died after being hit by a car. He was 26.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-...ckson-11970011

[ultimatewarlord]

Only found out through a throwaway line in todays Liverpool v Spuds game. the sad news that former referee Paul Alcock died of cancer this week. Alcock was unfortunately best known for being shoved over by Paolo Di Canio.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/footb...e-with-cancer/

[Trip]

Originally Posted by Staffsyeoman

Have only seen one report but it says that actor Bradford Dillman - best known to me as the ambitious Major in The Bridge At Remagen, but lots of other TV and film work, passed away last week aged 87.

Same here, had heard briefly on CBS News Radio. More has emerged now.

RIP. He was a great actor when I was growing up. My mom loved him.





http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0226947/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bradford_Dillman

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/21/a...lman-dead.html

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...was-87-1075818

[patwynnfan]

One of the £14m Hatton Garden jewellery raiders, Terry Perkins, has died in prison aged 69. Perkins from Enfield, north London, was serving a jail term for the "largest burglary in English legal history". One of four ringleaders of the 2015 raid, he was last week ordered to pay back £6,526,571 or face a further seven-year jail term. Perkins and his fellow raiders stole goods after drilling into a vault at London's Hatton Garden Safe Deposit. He was serving his sentence in HMP Belmarsh and is believed to have been ill for some time. In a statement, the Prison Service said: "As with all deaths in custody, there will be an independent investigation by the Prisons and Probation Ombudsman." • Who were the jewellery heist raiders? • In pictures: How the Hatton Garden plot played out • Ringleaders ordered to pay £27.5m Perkins was jailed for seven years, alongside two of the ringleaders, John "Kenny" Collins, 77, and Daniel Jones, 63, after pleading guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary in 2016. Fellow ringleader Brian Reader, 78, who was too ill to attend the initial sentencing, was later jailed for six years and three months.

Last Tuesday, the gang members were ordered to pay back £27.5m between them or have their sentences increased. Judge Christopher Kinch QC said the men jointly benefitted from an estimated £13.69m worth of stolen cash, gold and gems. Peter Rowlands, Perkins' barrister, said his client - who had been diagnosed with "severe heart failure" - would have to serve the extra time as there was "no prospect" of any further funds being recovered. During last week's hearing, the judge said if any of the four could raise £6.4m to pay back, the others would each have that total taken off their confiscation order. If that were the case it would bring the total amount paid back by the burglars to about £8.2m.


Perkins was caught after Hatton Garden investigators installed a listening device in his blue Citroen Saxo, on which he was recorded saying he planned to use his share of the spoils to fund his pension. He was arrested with Collins and Jones, having dropped off a holdall containing some of the loot. Perkins celebrated his birthday during the raid and was involved in all stages of the operation, including disposing of the stolen goods. He was inside the Hatton Garden building posing as a builder and "working" inside the lift on 31 March during the raid, which was carried out over the Easter weekend in 2015. When his home was searched police found jewellery, cash, blue workman's overalls and five pairs of white fabric gloves that were used by the burglars who aimed to leave no forensic evidence at the scene.

[ball7]

Theater and Screen legend John Mahoney has died at 77.

The beloved actor is mostly famous for his long running role as Frasier's dad Martin on the hit show Frasier. John spent last couple of days at hospice in Chicago.


RIP

[patwynnfan]

A service to mark 60 years since the Munich air crash which killed 23 people, including eight Manchester United players, has taken place. The crash, on 6 February 1958, happened on United's return from a European Cup tie in Belgrade. Eight players, three club staff, eight journalists, two crew members and two passengers were killed. The Old Trafford service included a minute's silence at 15:04, the time of the crash. Thousands of fans turned out for the ceremony. Manchester United invited season ticket holders aged over 65 but said all supporters were welcome. Former United players Sir Bobby Charlton and Harry Gregg, who both survived the crash, were at the ceremony, along with former manager Sir Alex Ferguson. Current manager Jose Mourinho and captain Michael Carrick laid wreaths.

As a child at the time in Manchester and being a Man U supporter I remember it well. I was inconsolable for days.

[sledge]

...who died 20 Years ago

FALCO(Johann Hölzel) at WIKIPEDIA

[axdx]

Actor and musician Mickey Jones has died at the age of 76 of a long illness said his publicist.



http://www.latimes.com/local/obituar...207-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Jones

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428856/

[Brecht]

Originally Posted by axdx

Actor and musician Mickey Jones has died at the age of 76 of a long illness said his publicist.



http://www.latimes.com/local/obituar...207-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_Jones

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0428856/

This dude was 76? I remember him from Total Recall and Home Improvement. He's with those guys who make music with their tools on Tim Taylor's show.

[Decadence]

John Perry Barlow (1947-2018)



The Grateful Dead lyricist died in his sleep Wednesday at age 70. Although not as prolific as Garcia/Hunter, with Bob Weir as a writing partner he wrote many Dead standards in the 70s - 80s. Also an early internet pioneer, he founded the Electronic Frontier Foundation in 1990 which champions independent internet, free of government rule.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture...-at-70-w516487

RIP