Nic2004 RIP buddy

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
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Boy this is a bad week to be a doper.
This morning I got the following email

Nic joined our little band of posters back in 2004. Never a huge number poster, when he did post it was always worth reading.
Nic and I became friends IRL back in 2006 or there abouts. I had posted in a recipe thread, and he sent me a private message about how to cook chicken on the grill. Several emails were exchanged, and I think I can tell you the exact time we became friends, I had sent him a recipe, he wrote back that they were boarding up for a hurricane and he would try it after the storm was past. I wrote back I don’t think I have ever said this to a man, but here is hoping you don’t get a blow job
After that we were buddies. When I retired he invited myself and my wife to come visit them in Flordia, and we went and spent a week there. Nic has a lovely family, with a wife who thought he was nuts to invite somebody he had never seen to come stay with them for a week. Turns out we had a great time, and Nic convinced us to go visit St. Augustine. Turned out that this was the highlight of our trip. Nic and I kept talking about doing it again, but never got around to it. Damn.
Nic was a biker, old school. Not a Johnny come lately, he was from the days of when you gathered the parts and built your bike by hand. One night when we were visiting I asked him to explain the difference between two types of Harleys. I got a complete lesson how how to build a Harley engine. He paid for his hobby. He lost a leg riding his bike and based on what I got in the mail, possibly his life. Recently he and several of his buddies were featured in a Sarah Darling video. Nic can be seen at the beginning of the video sitting at the bar with a blue hat on. He sent me pictures of all of the guys in the video, I printed one of them and told my boss that they were my new crew. Bosses response? :eek:

Just last night my wife and I were telling friends about Nic his family and how we wanted to go back to St. Augustine.
Damn I have to stop now, my eyes are starting to leak.
My heart goes out to Nancy and David.

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This is horrible! Nic and I got to be friends via email and then all of a sudden I didn’t hear from him anymore. :frowning: He was such a wonderfully sweet person and loved both his Nancy and David very much. I’ll miss him terribly and may his loved ones find peace.

Kemi~

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Aw, FUCK!

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I declare a moratorium on Dopers dying effective NOW,

This sucks, I remember his name, but not a lot about his posts. Reading now, he seems like someone I’d have like to have met.

Also on a side note: I think I’ve become a Sarah Darling fan.

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Seconded!
Just. . .damn! :frowning:

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My word! I’m sorry to hear this, but I am heartened a bit that he went out doing something he loved.

My condolences to all his family and friends.

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Thirded. Seriously, what the fuck is going on?! :(:frowning:

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My heartfelt condolences.

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Deltona? That’s just down the road from me. I went to Deltona Junior High School.

Dammit.

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silenus said it :(:(:frowning:

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I didn’t know him at all, but man! Enough is enough!

His family is in my prayers.

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:frowning:

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Did he die in a crash? Or did he die some other way “while riding” as the obituary says - a heart attack or something? It’s not clear from the wording.

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TOO MUCH DEATH! is the only response I have to this.

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It’s crappy to have three such threads. It’s indeed a sad time.

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I don’t know. I was wondering that myself. I will call his wife in a day or so to find out.

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:frowning:

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What a sad week for us Dopers.

Seems to me I remember him from some photo threads (he’s one of the bearded ones in the video, right?).

Condolences to his family.

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My condolences to his friends and family.

I’m getting very tired of typing that. :frowning:

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Tell me about it. I don’t remember chatting with Nic2004 myself, but I’m sorry for the loss for his family and for the community here.