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Furp was an Iraq war veteran and regular staff member at Anthrocon, Califur, FurFright, Midwest FurFest and the Rocket City FurMeet; regularly providing operations and first-aid assistance. He was travelling on Highway 62 in southern California when he was struck by a vehicle moving at 65mph (104 kph), he was thrown from his motorcycle and was pronounced dead at the scene.
Hundreds of memorials have since been left on news articles and his LiveJournal account. A memorial community has also been set up for people to mourn the loss of Furp.
Article sourced from: http://www.insidesocal.com/news247/2009/02/motorcyclist-killed-in-twentyn.html
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Read the news articles, no mention of any involvment of alchohol. The lie is distributed by people that are in a position to cash in on his death.
I worked a number of conventions with Furp over the years. He went out of his way to provide medical assistance to folks who had injured themselves or otherwise became ill, myself included. And when the hard work was done, he proceeded to party hard, and that only made him all the more fun to hang out with.
He will be missed.
(Also, I'm glad to see that the pic I took of him got so much mileage. I just randomly took that picture at Dorsai Thing a few years ago. Who knew it would become so widely passed around?)