Baconwfu
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Knew a kid in high school, wasn't very close with him, but he was friends with some people I was kind of friends and seemed like a decent enough guy other than he was kind of one of those "redneck for the sake of being redneck" guys. He ended up going into the Marines and became a salvage diver or something like that. I would see him maybe a couple times a year around town and chat for 5-15 minutes and he was always really nice/friendly to me and I would be the same to him, but I never really got into deep conversations with him because he was kind of weird and always wanted to talk about guns. (Which isn't entirely unusual for rednecks from Western NC, but it was ALL he wanted to talk about) The last few times I saw him he was wearing camo shorts and metal (as in t-shirts of heavy metal bands) shirts at bars...which even in Asheville is being a bit underdressed. Anyway, I probably hadn't seen him in a year or so and saw a little blurb in the paper saying that he had died, but it suspiciously didn't discuss how he died. I found out a few weeks later that the day before his sisters wedding he walked into a room and shot his dad and his brother in the chest and then shot himself in the head. Luckily, his dad and brother survived (or so I'm told)
I can't think of anyone from my high school class that has died (although I'm sure someone has)...there was one kid who would've been in my class that died either in 7th or 8th grade after he got into a wreck in a home made go cart. I don't know the details, but I think it was way over powered and the brakes didn't work and he just ended up running into a wall or something.
One kid a few years younger than me who I only knew because he was on the football team died because he swallowed a few balloons of cocaine (after being pulled over by the cops if I remember correctly) and one of them ruptured in his stomach....which I guess caused him to OD.