What did this poor guy do in previous lives to deserve all of this?

[Avarie537]

Read this guy's obituary here. Great googly-moogly!

[Taters]

Wow, just wow!

That was a man with a lot of perseverance! I don't know that I would have tried as hard as he did to live life with all that happened to him.

[934spe]

He must have had some bad Karma...

[Eve]

Frank Grimes lives!

Ooop, no he doesn't . . .

[934spe]

I know this sounds bad, but I don't if I would have wanted to hang around this guy... I would be deathly afraid to get in a car with him, no matter who was driving... I don't have a death wish......

[elbows]

Many lifetimes worth of spiritual trial compressed into one lifetime.

That's a lot of learning for 54 yrs.

A Buddhist would tell you it's not that he had bad karma from a passed life.

It's just that he was on the short path to enlightenment.

It ain't easy - but it gets you there in one lifetime!

[NurseCarmen]

It turns out that in previous lives he was Hitler, Ginghas Khan, and Nellie Olson. This life was just the kharmic retribution for Nellie.

[Slypork]

I’m not going to bitch about bad luck anymore. I bet the insurance agencies locked the doors when they saw him coming.

[Imasquare]

I've always prided myself on not believing in luck (good or bad), but I can't think of any other explanation for what happened to this poor man.

[postcards]

Originally Posted by 934spe

I know this sounds bad, but I don't if I would have wanted to hang around this guy... I would be deathly afraid to get in a car with him, no matter who was driving... I don't have a death wish......

Nonsense. He'd be the perfect person to hang around with, since, if anything bad was going to happen, it'd happen to him!

(...And I'm goin' to hell for a lot more than just that remark, believe me.)

[Gatopescado]

He's smiling in the photo.

[lavenderviolet]

Wow, it truly is amazing that the guy survived so much and managed to recover from so many serious injuries. I'm really surprised he managed to hang on to the age of 54 (I also have to wonder how old his brother who died before him was...hopefully that guy's luck wasn't as bad as his poor brother's).

[Ogre]

Originally Posted by Gatopescado

He's smiling in the photo.

That photo was taken by the camera of a speeding police cruiser. His "smile" is a grimace of pain.

[Savannah]

Holy cow.

I'm never going to whine again.

[The Scrivener]

Just maybe, on some distant planet, a race of miserable centipede-like beings are welcoming their great statesman Plydo back... from his brief, precious sabbatical... on Earth, "the pleasure planet".


Well, that's how Harlan Ellison reimagined human misery in his short story "Strange Wine".

[Man With a Cat]

I am never complaining again.

Ok, not for probably the rest of the day, but I mean....wow.

[Loach]

Originally Posted by Eve

Frank Grimes lives!

Ooop, no he doesn't . . .

You know he likes to be called Grimey.

[2lazy2pee]

How ironic he died on September 11, too. It's truly inspiring how he came back from the brink all those times, though. It takes a rare type of stubbornness to insist on having a normal kind of life.

[Dunderman]

Originally Posted by Imasquare

I've always prided myself on not believing in luck (good or bad), but I can't think of any other explanation for what happened to this poor man.

Well, with billions of people and billions of accidents, some are bound to cluster.

The Scrivener, thanks. I've been thinking about that story lately and haven't been able to recall the title or the author.

[Subway Prophet]

Originally Posted by 2lazy2pee

How ironic he died on September 11, too. It's truly inspiring how he came back from the brink all those times, though. It takes a rare type of stubbornness to insist on having a normal kind of life.

I dunno about the irony, but I too am impressed with his stubborness. I think I would've given up out of frustration long before age 54.

[Jackknifed Juggernaut]

No doubt that the poor guy had some real bad luck. But knowing how accident-prone he was, he probably should have stayed away from the football field, ski slopes and go carts. Also, it is not clear how many of the auto accidents were his fault. It's an obituary so I'm sure they left out the parts that were his own doing. On the other hand, I have to admire his tenacity and zest for life. RIP.

[danceswithcats]

His favorite song: But the cat came back, the very next day..