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RIP MacNutt

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#1 ·
Hello everyone,

I'm sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but our favourite bull headed scotsman, Gerry MacNutt, died in a freak accident this past weekend. I'dve posted something sooner, but I literally just found out when my mother phoned me from Salt Spring asking if I knew a guy named MacNutt.

Apparently he was photographing a motorcycle drag race (as he often talked about doing) and one of the bikes flew out of control and struck him.

Here is the story on the local Salt Spring newspaper:

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A high-powered motorcycle flew out of control and claimed the life of 50-year-old islander Gerry MacNutt while he was photographing a sand-drag race in Lake Cowichan on Sunday.
“He was a photographer and he liked to get the picture,” said MacNutt’s friend Marve Brimacombe, who witnessed the incident. MacNutt was standing on the edge of a 100-metre sand track near the finish line and taking pictures of the race when a rider lost control of his motorcycle, Brimacombe said. “The bike was veering and instead of jumping one way, he jumped the wrong way.”

According to a press release from the Lake Cowichan RCMP, MacNutt received immediate medical attention from first-aid attendants for numerous injuries after emergency services were called to Meades Creek Sand Drag Track at 12:38 p.m., but he succumbed at the scene. Both MacNutt and the motorcycle rider were members of Brimacombe’s Mental Racing Team that participated in the sport of sand-drag racing with 350 horsepower-plus, nitro-methane fuelled Harley Davidson motorcycles. “Gerry loved being around the nitro bikes and the filming of everything,” Brimacombe said.

read more here: http://gulfislands.net/news.asp?ID=1603
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I really don't know what to say. I didn't always agree with the guy, but I got along with him pretty well. I'm just kind of in shock.

I hereby invite everyone to raise a glass for Gerry MacNutt; 1956 - 2006. RIP.
 
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#32 ·
SQ said what I was about to say -- "This is shocking. Truly shocking." My last direct communication with Gerry was via a PM re the "The World According to MacNutt" postings. I wanted to make sure that he was OK with these satirical looks at life all around us. He said he loved them, in that it made him look smarter and more educated. I told him that we made a good team together and he agreed.

While we did not agree on many issues, I felt that at least he was consistent. I never felt that his postings posed a threat to national security or were vile comments aimed at hurting other people. He was opinionated and stubborn, but willing to laugh at himself, and for these qualities he shall be dearly missed by most, if not all of us. RIP mon ami. Paix.
 
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#35 ·
I am truly shocked and saddened by the news of Gerry's passing.

I believe that he was truly a good person and someone with whom I would have liked to shake hands with someday.

While his posts and views were not shared by most, he spoke from the heart and was respected for that. He was one of ehMac's pioneers and most prolific posters. An asset to this community. His presence here will be greatly missed and I for one am extremely saddened to see him go. But He died doing one thing that he loved to do.

Farewell Gerry. I hope to shake your hand in the next world.
 
#37 ·
I'm shocked to hear this sad news. Gerry certainly liked to push buttons and some of his posts were over the top, but I think that was intentional. Gerry once sent me a case of his Carly Spring water and inside he included one of his drag racing videos as an extra. He went doing what he loved best. RIP, Gerry!

A truly decent guy, I'll miss him.

Posterboy, thanks for letting us know.
 
#38 ·
"His presence here will be greatly missed and I for one am extremely saddened to see him go. But He died doing one thing that he loved to do." MP, you just said what I have been thinking about since I first heard the news of his passing.

For as it was written in the last volume of "The World According to MacNutt" -- "In Life, we must always expect the unexpected. This is what keeps each person's life interesting, and filled with tears and laughter. In the final analysis, we should all take Life easy ............ but we should take it and make it more meaningful."

I had hoped to meet Gerry someday/somewhere and have our picture taken together. East meets West, so to speak. Such is Life. Paix, mon ami. RIP.
 
#41 ·
MacNutt and I had one of the more conflicted relationships within this community, as many of you well know. The news of his passing is still a shock - I'll never have the chance to win another argument with him.

Gerry, whereever you are, you've found a few answers the rest of us are still searching for. Hope you're doing alright. And if I ever see an apparition roaring up behind me with one headlight on a lonely rural highway in Cuba, I'll imagine its you. On my next visit, I'll raise a toast of Cuban rum in your name.

Hasta la vista, Gerry.

M.
 
#45 ·
CubaMark, I wanted to share with Gerry my experiences in Cuba. My wife and I intend to try and make this a yearly event, so I too shall toast our amigo with some Cuban rum. He would have appreciated this I feel. Pax, mi amigo.
 
#46 ·
Who knows, Marc. We may have an opportunity to do that together some day, sitting on the Malecon, watching the jalopys roll by and the waves crash on the seawall.

If there was ever any doubt, ehMac is truly a community, filled with friendship, controversy, a bit o' love, and sorrow.

M.
 
#48 ·
Mark, yes, that would be an appropriate gesture on our part. Que lastima that he shall not be there with us.
 
#50 ·
"Actually...I feel that I'm much more "alive" than most people. I love what I do. The mortal danger and the rush just make life that much sweeter.

Trust me on this."

A fitting self-written eulogy.
 
#51 ·
CubaMark, one of the first things I thought of was the PM's Gerry and I exchanged about Cuba. Let there be no doubt that Gerry was very much against the Cuban government but he loved the country and it's people. He really cared about their welfare.

I will drink a toast of rum to his memory when I return for my annual junket this fall.
 
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