Tree falls, killing deputy during funeral procession for fellow deputy

[Johnny Dangerously]

I'm a couple of days late with this, and I apologize if it's already been posted.

Otherwise, I'm speechless.

http://blog.nola.com/tpnorthshore/2007/06/storms_pound_st_tammany_parish.html

 

[linotype]

Is it too soon to ask if it made a sound?

 

[Jack_Kerouac]

A sportswriter's wife was killed in a plane crash going to her brother's funeral after he had been killed in a plane crash.

 

[Bubbler]

Unlike the hellbound above me, I'll just say that's incalculably horrible.

 

[HejiraHenry]

Unlike the hellbound above me, I'll just say that's incalculably horrible.

Yes. All of that.

 

[SockPuppet]

A sportswriter's wife was killed in a plane crash going to her brother's funeral after he had been killed in a plane crash.

Tony DeMarco, formerly of the FW Star-Telegram, was working at the Denver Post when his wife was killed in the referenced plane crash. Happened about 10 years ago. Heart breaking.

 

[Write-brained]

That is awful ... New Orleans is just a cursed place ... love the city but the strangest, most tragic **** happens there ... even before Katrina.

 

[Big Game]

Horrible.
Reading about tragedies like this is why I got into SPORTS journalism. Every night, I peruse the news wire and come away with a story that lingers with me for a while.

 

[chazp]

When I lived in California, a women's two children were run over at a bus stop (one died) and the women died in a car wreck rushing to the hospital after being notified. Sadness compounded, just like the link.

 

[Johnny Dangerously]

Wasn't there a thread once about two brothers who died in separate motorcycle accidents on the same highway within a few hours of each other?

 

[markvid]

Wasn't there a thread once about two brothers who died in separate motorcycle accidents on the same highway within a few hours of each other?

Yep, happened about 90 minutes north of Pittsburgh, I'll see if I can find it.

EDIT: http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_465039.html

However, when I googled, there was one in Maine too this week.