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Hugh_Lebowski

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1. I knew an elderly gentleman who died in an ATV crash when he tried to go up too steep a hill
Tue Jul 13, 2021, 03:49 PM
Jul 2021

This dude was in his late 70's, at the Mogollon Rim (AZ) and was riding an ATV for one of the first times in his life (if not THE first time).

Crazy part is the guy had defected from Soviet Russia in the early 1980's, where he had not only been a fighter pilot in the Red Army, but also a concert pianist in the USSR.

Guy had a crazy life and amazing stories, and taught all four kids in my ex-wife's family to play piano growing up.

Then one day, just going about living what had been a very daring and dangerous life ... he just flipped backwards on an ATV, got crushed, and died. In his 70's.

A very cool old man, I gotta say.

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