Famous Mountain Biker Kills His Brother! - Page 3

11-24-2006, 09:17 AM

If OJ buys a mountain bike, will you post "FAMOUS KILLER RIDES MOUNTAIN
BIKE"?

Sheesh, Mike.

11-24-2006, 10:35 AM

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 01:16:38 GMT, "Roberto Baggio"
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>> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 07:57:44 GMT, "Roberto Baggio"
>> <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
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>>>I very much hope that in reality you are somewhat joking in what you post,
>>>because if not, then you are in need of some serious psychiatric care.
>>
>> Of course not. This actually happened (if we can believe the news
>> media). Check the URL yourself (given in a later port).
>
>Then you are in need of psychiatric help.

Because a mountain biker shot his brother to death? It makes more
sense to get the psychiatric help for mountain bikers! This is what
addictions lead to.
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11-24-2006, 10:36 AM

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:33:15 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
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>How come the Subject Line isn't, "Landscaper kills brother!" or "Skiing
>legend kills brother!" or simply, "Man kills brother."

The truth hurts, huh?

>Once again you prove that you are an idiot.
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>> Cops: Sparta man killed brother
>> Victim's young daughter saw shooting, police say
>> BY ABBOTT KOLOFF
>> AND MATT MANOCHIO
>> DAILY RECORD
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>> SPARTA -- A township man, considered a local biking and skiing legend,
>> shot and killed his older brother in front of his kindergarten-age
>> niece on Tuesday morning, authorities said.
>> Daniel Thropp, 43, was in jail Tuesday evening, with police saying
>> they planned to file gun and murder charges against him.
>> Alan Thropp, 49, was shot multiple times at his East Shore Trail home,
>> where police responded early Tuesday, authorities said. He made an
>> emergency call to police at 6:41 a.m.
>> Police said they recovered a hunting rifle outside the house but had
>> not determined who owned it and had not determined whether it was used
>> in the shooting. Alan Thropp was alive when police arrived, but it was
>> not clear on Tuesday whether he said anything to authorities about the
>> shooting.
>> "I don't think there was any ongoing feud or anything like that that
>> I've heard of," said Bill Fitzgibbons, first assistant prosecutor with
>> the Sussex County Prosecutor's office.
>> Daniel Thropp, who lives on Hunter's Lane and owned his own
>> landscaping business, had recently visited a Daily Record office and
>> presented papers claiming a developer was trying to poison him to get
>> his house. He also indicated in those papers that he had tried to get
>> Sparta Police Chief Ernest Reigstad to sign a paper acknowledging
>> Thropp's claims of "criminal poisoning."
>> Fitzgibbons said he couldn't say anything about Thropp's mental
>> condition, adding that it's part of the investigation. He said he
>> hadn't heard about Thropp's alleged dealings with the Sparta police.
>> Reigstad was unavailable for comment and did not respond to an
>> interview request.
>> Authorities said first aid crews tried to revive Alan Thropp, but he
>> died in the Newton Memorial Hospital emergency room at 7:47 a.m.,
>> about one hour after police were called.
>> At the scene
>> Police also said Alan Thropp's daughter, who they said was either 5 or
>> 6 years old, was the only witness to the shooting. They said Daniel
>> Thropp was at his brother's house when police arrived but did not
>> appear agitated. They said he didn't give a statement to authorities,
>> and instead asked for an attorney.
>> "It was very calm," Fitzgibbons said.
>> Daniel Thropp was lodged in the Sussex County jail Tuesday night with
>> a hearing set for today in Newton.
>> Alan Thropp was divorced and had joint custody of a daughter,
>> according to authorities. The little girl was staying with her mother
>> in Hopatcong Tuesday night, they said.
>> Lisa Champion, Alan Thropp's neighbor, described him as a hard worker
>> who owned an excavating and septic business, and who would plow
>> neighbors' driveways in winter. She also said he was a doting father.
>> She said she saw police at the scene Tuesday morning.
>> "I saw them performing CPR," she said. "I didn't know who it was until
>> they confirmed (it was Alan). ... Alan was a workaholic. He was an
>> awesome neighbor to have. He watched out for all of us. ... It's a
>> tragedy, an absolute tragedy."
>> She said that Thropp's young daughter was a bright spot in his life.
>> "His life went around her,"she said. "He dropped everything. You knew
>> a child was part of that house, with the toys and the swings, and the
>> blow-up inflatables for the holiday. He lived for her. He was so proud
>> to show her off. It just fills your heart with how much love he had
>> for that little girl."
>> A tri-athlete
>> Daniel Thropp was described by friends as an athletic legend around
>> Sussex County, with a quirky personality, who suddenly stopped
>> communicating with many of his old friends a couple of years ago. They
>> said they would see him around town, often at the library, but that he
>> no longer participated in local athletic events.
>> He had been known as a tri-athlete, who won a grueling three-sport
>> race that involved mountain biking, skiing and running in Killington,
>> Vt., several years running. They said he had been captain of ski teams
>> at Sparta High School and Penn State University. He later went into
>> finance, friends said -- but then dropped out of the business world to
>> spend more time skiing, doing the things he loved.
>> "I admired that he knew what he wanted to do, and did it," said Tracy
>> Blake, 46, of Andover Township, who knew the Thropp family while
>> growing up in Sparta.
>> In papers he gave to the Daily Record, Daniel Thropp said that he
>> owned Sparta Exterior Services and Sparta Lawn Care for many years. He
>> also claimed in those papers that he was suffering from "acute
>> exposure" to some sort of compound but indicated that no one took him
>> seriously.
>> "If you are a landscaper, sheep farmer or Gulf War veteran and claim
>> damage you will be ignored," he wrote.
>> Blake remained friendly with Daniel Thropp over the years because they
>> were both members of a local bicycling club. She and other friends
>> said he often showed up riding a clunker bike, sometimes his
>> girlfriend's bike, without a water bottle, helmet, or proper cycling
>> clothes. His friends said he easily won races competing against
>> cyclists who rode much more expensive bicycles.
>> "He was an extremely talented athlete, easy going, friendly, helpful,"
>> Blake said.
>> Blake said Daniel talked fondly about his brother, Alan. She also said
>> Daniel Thropp stopped coming to bicycling events a couple of years ago
>> and appeared to stop working as a landscaper. She said he seemed to
>> lose contact with his old friends.
>> "I don't know what's been in his mind lately," she said.
>> ===
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>> humans ("pure habitat"). Want to help? (I spent the previous 8
>> years fighting auto dependence and road construction.)
>>
>> Please don't put a cell phone next to any part of your body that you are
>> fond of!
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11-24-2006, 10:37 AM

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:15:10 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
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>"di" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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>> "Jeff Strickland" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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>>> How come the Subject Line isn't, "Landscaper kills brother!" or "Skiing
>>> legend kills brother!" or simply, "Man kills brother."
>>>
>>>
>>> Once again you prove that you are an idiot.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>> I think it's the landscaping that caused it, a good reason to not mow your
>> lawn.
>>
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>I have to keep an eye on my pool-cleaner brother ...
>
>Crap, he already steals my beer. Now I gotta worry that he's gonna do me in.

It would seem that he has a good reason.
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11-24-2006, 10:38 AM

On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:14:03 -0600, Cyli <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:

>On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:38:05 -0500, "S Curtiss" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
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>>There is no indication this person commited this crime because he was a
>>cyclist.
>
>There is no indication that he ever rode a mountain bike, either.

He was famous for mountain biking. DUH! The truth hurts, huh?

>The race he won or came in high in seems to have been a triathlon, I
>don't think I've ever heard of a triathlon taking the bikes off road.
>The friends he rode with sounded like on road bikers.
>
>And he was at the far end, but within age range for schizophrenia to
>strike. Many of his complaints sounded schizoid. Paranoid schizoid
>when he complained to the police about his water being poisoned.
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11-24-2006, 10:50 AM

"Mike Vandeman" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:33:15 -0800, "Jeff Strickland"
> <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
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>>How come the Subject Line isn't, "Landscaper kills brother!" or "Skiing
>>legend kills brother!" or simply, "Man kills brother."
>
> The truth hurts, huh?
>

TRUTH?

Each of the alternatives is equally the truth.

You are an idiot. That's truth as well.

11-24-2006, 05:27 PM

Mike Vandeman wrote:
<snip> Sad story about a two brothers that most people have never heard
of<snip>

On a brighter note ... some people are trying to improve things ...

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R

Now there's a famous Mountain Biker ...

11-24-2006, 07:05 PM

On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:38:40 GMT, Mike Vandeman <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
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>On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 22:14:03 -0600, Cyli <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote:
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>>On Thu, 23 Nov 2006 11:38:05 -0500, "S Curtiss" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
>>wrote:
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>>>
>>>There is no indication this person commited this crime because he was a
>>>cyclist.
>>
>>There is no indication that he ever rode a mountain bike, either.
>
>He was famous for mountain biking. DUH! The truth hurts, huh?

I never heard of him. How did you hear of him?
>
>>The race he won or came in high in seems to have been a triathlon, I
>>don't think I've ever heard of a triathlon taking the bikes off road.
>>The friends he rode with sounded like on road bikers.
>>
>>And he was at the far end, but within age range for schizophrenia to
>>strike. Many of his complaints sounded schizoid. Paranoid schizoid
>>when he complained to the police about his water being poisoned.
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Speaker to squirrels, willow watcher, etc..
Often taunted by trout. Almost entirely harmless. Really.

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11-24-2006, 09:07 PM

"Cyli" <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]> wrote in message
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> On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 19:38:40 GMT, Mike Vandeman <[Only registered and activated users can see links. ]>
> wrote:
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>>>>
>>>>There is no indication this person commited this crime because he was a
>>>>cyclist.
>>>
>>>There is no indication that he ever rode a mountain bike, either.
>>
>>He was famous for mountain biking. DUH! The truth hurts, huh?
>
> I never heard of him. How did you hear of him?
>>
"During the past two decades, radical environmental and animal rights
groupshave claimed responsibility for hundreds of crimes and acts of
terrorism, including arson, bombings, vandalism and harassment, causing more
than $100 million in damage. While some activists have been captured,
ecoterror cells - small and loosely affiliated - are extremely difficult to
identify and most attacks remain unsolved. Although it has been overshadowed
by Islamic terrorist threats since September 11, ecoterrorism remains one of
the country's most active terrorist movements."

It speaks volumes on the integrity of MV for him to focus on the actions of
a man that used to ride (the article HE posted stated he had not involved
himself in it for quite some time) while disregarding the real and
continuing damage and injury inflicted by people that CURRENTLY claim
environmental ties.
He once again disregards the real facts while attempting to inflate the
significance of someone that at one time rode a mountain bike. He might as
well state "a postal worker killed someone. Therefore, all postal workers
are murderers.