dead Tom Petty

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38 minutes ago, chiesa52 said:

I just saw this online- claims it's all a hoax! http://en.thissiteisahoax.net/people/tom-petty/deathhoax.html

 

Ugh... I've heard that thissiteisahoax is Clive Dunn's favorite website.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

45 minutes ago, chiesa52 said:

I just saw this online- claims it's all a hoax! http://en.thissiteisahoax.net/people/tom-petty/deathhoax.html

 

Ugh, thissiteisahoax is still able pass through the filter...

 

EDIT: That's what this turns into...

[CarolAnn 926]

4 hours ago, MadMac said:

Reports are that he’s on life support after being found “in full cardiac arrest”. Strange one, no history of health issues or addictions that I recall. Certainly not on the radar. 

A biography released in 2015 discussed his past heroin usage in some depth. While it wasn't authorized, it was a book that he cooperated with, so there is some basis to believe it. 

[JTrost1234 21]

I hope he doesn't die. This was a bad month.

First they knock down what's left of The Koskiosco Bridge, Then Monty Hall dies, then the club shooting and now this.  Why the stupid do not resuscitate? If they can save him, then at least try to resuscitate him. I'm hoping for a miracle, but not likely. He's either dead or will be shortly.

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Make what you will of this.

 

http://uproxx.com/music/tom-pettys-daughter-slams-rolling-stone-annakim-violette-slams/

[TheBigBB 34]

He sure wasn't known for his excesses in terms of drinking and drugs, but he's a heavy smoker as far as I know. Over a long period of time, smoking will damage your circulatory system and cause narrowing of the arteries, etc. So maybe it's not that surprising that this happened. I want to say that I hope he pulls through, but not if he's going to be a vegetable.

[Whitehouse 872]

Still, I don't think he'll come around here no more...

[msc 18,476]

He's not dead? Can't find it online, and he's obviously in a bad way, but it cant help but remind me of this bit in the Simpsons:

 

        At three p.m.  Friday, local autocrat C. Montgomery Burns was
        shot following a tense confrontation at town hall.
        Burns was rushed to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced
        dead.
        He was then transferred to a better hospital where doctors
        upgraded his condition to "alive".

[msc 18,476]

Dead dead this time, according to his management to the LA Times.

 

RIP.

[YoungWillz 21,058]

This says his family have confirmed his death: https://www.buzzfeed.com/jasonwells/tom-petty?bftwnews&utm_term=.rvlo0wyXe#.jkaxPeGrZ

[YoungWillz 21,058]

Dylan and Lynne survive the Wilburys...

 

I'd say both possible candidates for next year...

[anthonyd46 6]

His daughter confirmed it now:

 

 

 

[bladan 293]

Curse of the Traveling Wilburys strikes again! Orbison and Harrison are dead too.

[Exu 250]

now confirmed on the BBC

[Whitehouse 872]

46 minutes ago, bladan said:

Curse of the Traveling Wilburys strikes again! Orbison and Harrison are dead too.

Dylan, Keltner and Lynne left.

[Lewd_Squirrel 331]

Tom Deady and the Heart-Failures?

[GossipGabe 333]

5 hours ago, Life Is Beautiful said:

EDIT 2: STILL ALIVE...which proves once again that a huge part of the problem is media focusing on being ‘first’ instead of ‘fact’

 

I'm not sure if Tom Petty is alive or not but journalism sure is!

Well, it's a shame, but indeed has been comfirmed by the Beeb as well as numerous other sources.

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-41475013

 

By the way, it's not like this type of "fake news" were an entirely new thing. Premature obituaries have been around for longer than newspapers and journalism. I could quote Mark Twain here but I'm sure we all know what I'm referring to.

 

The sad thing is, the original report could've been issued when the guy had already permanently lost all higher level brain functions (the BBC report stated "he was taken to hospital, but could not be revived"), so he might have been dead in all but name.

[chiesa52 132]

After all of that, I am kind of sorry he died!  Very weird situation, and I really do hope it doesn't happen like this to anyone else

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/los-angeles-police-deny-confirming-tom-pettys-death-50241445

[TomTomTelekom 3,728]

This are sad news

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3 hours ago, GossipGabe said:

The sad thing is, the original report could've been issued when the guy had already permanently lost all higher level brain functions (the BBC report stated "he was taken to hospital, but could not be revived"), so he might have been dead in all but name.

 

I'm sure that was the situation.  Very very sad.  Taken too soon, and he will be missed. 

[Bibliogryphon 9,586]

13 hours ago, CaptainChorizo said:

 

Not sure,but nobody can break his stride

That's Matthew Wilder.

[Life Is Beautiful 718]

Yesterday I was hoping he'd survive, then I woke up to this.

 

What a Petty.

[Joey Russ 7,228]

2 hours ago, TomTomTelekom said:

This are sad news

*is*

[Joey Russ 7,228]

In all seriousness though, I knew he was gone by the time I woke up.  Being taken off life support after being unconscious for while is pretty sad, especially since he wasn't as heavy on drugs as other people. Really sad way to go. RIP.  

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13 minutes ago, Joey Russ said:

In all seriousness though, I knew he was gone by the time I woke up.  Being taken off life support after being unconscious for while is pretty sad, especially since he wasn't as heavy on drugs as other people. Really sad way to go. RIP.  

 

Nothing like as sad as a long painful decline from cancer, or dementia.  He probably never knew what hit him. 

And Tom had done plenty of drugs in his time.