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Another instance of attempted murder disguised as "consensual sex."
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Sadly, another risk taker died "doing what he loved." He was only 31 years old.
Brad Gobright, 31, was simul-rappelling on El Sendero Luminoso at El Potrero Chico in Mexico on Wednesday with his climbing partner Aiden Jacobson, 26._____
When Jacobson rappelled off the end of an 80-meter rope with no knot and dropped to a ledge below, it unbalanced the system and sent Gobright into a freefall, according to a Costa Rican climber who was three pitches above them.
Gino Negrinni said the pair were sharing a rope on the seventh pitch of the 15 on the face of the El Toro formation that afternoon and he heard screams from his position 100 meters above.
Another obit: A key figure during the Nixon scandals, William Ruckelshaus, who was fired in the infamous "Saturday Night Massacre," has died at the age of 87.
He, along with AG Eliot Richardson, refused to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox. As we know, good old Robert Bork was more than willing to carry out what Nixon wanted.
Ruckelshaus died yesterday:
With a record and reputation as a pragmatic political trouble-shooter known as "Mr. Clean," Ruckelshaus was tapped as acting FBI director and then deputy attorney general during the early stages of the Watergate scandal. Within months of his arrival at the Justice Department, he would become embroiled in one of the most controversial events in the scandal over the White House-orchestrated break-in at the headquarters of the Democratic National Committee at the Watergate Hotel._____
As the investigation into the alleged cover-up of the break-in intensified, Nixon ordered then-Attorney General Eliot Richardson and Ruckelshaus to fire the independent special Watergate prosecutor Archibald Cox. They both refused and instead resigned. That episode in October 1973 came to be known as the "Saturday Night Massacre" and it led to the eventual downfall of the Nixon presidency a year later.
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