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UPDATE: The mods pulled the original thread because it was a hoax. It was simply a link to a blog making the claim. This was not original FR reporting, this was not an article written by a freeper or Free Republic. Hillbuzz now has its panties in a bunch:

UPDATE: 700am CST 11/14/11

I just got off the phone with Larry Sinclair and he is very much alive.

I don’t know why Free Republic ran that story, but Larry Sinclair is alive and well.

Shortly after Free Republic put up the apocryphal account that he was killed in a car accident, people started calling Larry to check on him (myself included).
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I have no idea what Free Republic’s intentions were this morning, but I think it’s sick they ran this hoax and scared the living daylights out of so many people today.

Shame on them.

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UPDATE: 710am CST 11/14/11

As of 710am CST, Free Republic has deleted the article it ran claiming that Larry Sinclair was killed in a hit and run car accident.

They’ve flushed it all down the memory hole as if it never happened. The links to the original story no longer work and are reading that “that thread has been pulled”.

So far, no explanation has been given for why Free Republic did any of this.

I honestly don’t know how that site works, so if someone who is a regular reader there can explain it in comments below I would really appreciate it.

It’s my understanding that anything that’s submitted for posting there is reviewed by Editors/Moderators, so I just don’t know why anyone would approve this morbid lie about Larry Sinclair.

Can someone explain how this happened at Free Republic and how they can prevent something like this from happening again?