I searched in Yahoo for news coverage on Hunter's death and ran across a few choice quotes from friends, neighbors Hunter himself. They made me smile so I wanted to share. (Click on the quote to see the source)
Mike Cleverly, a neighbor and longtime friend, spent Friday night watching a basketball game on TV with Thompson. He said Thompson was clearly hobbled by the broken leg. "Medically speaking, he's had a rotten year," he said. But he added that "he's the last person in the world I would have expected to kill himself. I would have been less surprised if he had shot me."
In talking recently with his friend Bill Murray about a new sport he envisioned " "shotgun golf" in which two men compete on a golf driving range, one with a golf club and ball and the other with a shotgun. The marksman's challenge being to shoot the flying ball off-target. " Thompson added, "We'll obviously have to make a movie. This will mushroom or Mutate--either way--into a real craze. And given the mood of this country, being that a lot of people in the mood to play golf are also in the mood to shoot something, I think it would take off like a gigantic fad."
Hunter Thompson once said that, "Yesterday's weirdness is tomorrow's reason why."
