Another one bites the dust...
Another exercise equipment attack.
Ho Lee Fuk.
What secrets were he about to tell?
Throat crushed by barbell? Ok, yeah I can see that as a secondary injury (had heart attack, lost consciousness, dropped barbell on throat), but as the CAUSE of death???
Since he pumped iron he must have been in pretty good shape; wonder if there were defensive wounds or unexplainable bruising.
when they outlaw barbells, only crim....
His attorney said that this is an accident and is in no way similar to Vince Foster. He got his little pep talk.
This one is very interesting since Ash had ties to Trie
Timing is everything.
Sounds like a Columbo episode starring Robert Conrad,”An Exercise in Fatality”.
I’d bet that the FBI was closing in on him in their Bribery/Money Laundering/Perjury/Obstruction of Justice/Espionage/Treason/RICO investigation of Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton.
This plot is straight out of a "Columbo" episode "An Exercise in Fatality" (1974).
Milo Janus owns a chain of health clubs, but one of his franchisees discovers the man is cheating him - and can prove it to the authorities. Janus responds by murdering his partner and making it look as if he had accidentally killed himself trying to lift a barbell that was too heavy for him.
Harry Reid must be thanking his lucky stars getting out alive with a black eye. Ban all exercise equipment due to the fact it is dangerous and deadly Mandatory classes, license to use...strict laws which should be enforced.
Foster did not commit suicide. Official reports be damned..
Just remember, a couch potato never died when the potato fell on them. ;-)
Per the news reports:
Ashe — who was facing trial for tax fraud — died Wednesday afternoon in his house in Westchester County. The UN said he’d had a heart attack. But the local Dobbs Ferry police said Thursday that his throat had been crushed, presumably by a barbell he dropped while pumping iron.
Ashe was due in court Monday with his Chinese businessman co-defendant Ng Lap Seng, who is charged with smuggling $4.5 million into the US since 2013 and lying that it was to buy art and casino chips.
Ng was identified in a 1998 Senate report as the source of hundreds of thousands of dollars illegally funneled through an Arkansas restaurant owner, Charlie Trie, to the Democratic National Committee during the Clinton administration. (Ng was not charged with any crime.)
Ng and Trie had visited the White House several times for Democratic fund-raising events and were photographed with then-President Bill Clinton and First Lady Hillary Clinton.
One source told me, “During the trial, the prosecutors would have linked Ashe to the Clinton bagman Ng. It would have been very embarrassing. His death was conveniently timed.”
Ashe’s lawyer Jeremy Schneider told me he is sure Ashe’s death was an accident. “There is not one iota of evidence that it was homicide. This is nothing at all like Vince Foster.”
Police in Dobbs Ferry village are keeping the investigation open pending an autopsy by the Westchester medical examiner.
How many guys over the age of 30 “pump iron” today?
It’s time for common sense bar bell control.