It’s not right to make fun of the dead

I’m not going to.

I merely point to the irony:

Roofing magnate dies in fall – CNN.com

The 91st-richest man in the United States, a roofing company billionaire, has died after falling through his home garage’s roof, local authorities said Friday. Ken Hendricks, 66, was checking on construction Thursday night on the roof at his home in the town of Rock when he fell through, Rock County Sheriff’s Department Cmdr. Troy Knudson said.

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One Response to “It’s not right to make fun of the dead”

  1. Brian Smith
    23. December 2007 at 16:46

    The AP later sort of took this back, because there was something of a rush to conclude that the roofing billionaire died in a fall from a roof. Their clarification: Hendricks fell off the top of a subfloor under construction over the garage. Which sounds a bit like splitting hairs, but, hey.