  Gotdetroit Member Username: Gotdetroit Post Number: 25 Registered: 12-2005 Posted From: 68.61.230.11 |
I've been scouring the internet for that picture of Bubba helms and the burning car after the 1984 Detroit World Series win. any ideas? I've been at it for hours. Everything that I do seem to find leads to error pages (probably because the free/news changed their directory structures.) Any help would be appreciated. | ||
Bvos Member Username: Bvos Post Number: 1984 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 134.215.223.211 |
Try doing a Google search and use the "cache" feature. Google has most of the freep and snews pages stored on their computers before they overhauled everything. | ||
Caseyc Member Username: Caseyc Post Number: 628 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 206.18.111.5 |
good luck. I couldn't find one either. Wish I would've saved the old article/profile I had of him from the Freep back in 1984...EXTREMELY coincidental, no doubt, that Bvos's post above was #1984. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10593 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
Man, there was a pic on the forum not too many years ago. A quick search used to easily find him. That seems to have changed now that the guy is dead. Anybody recall what he died from? It was only a few years back, he was fairly young in I recall, like in his 30's. | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 1147 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 208.39.170.78 |
Self-inflicted gunshot to the head, I believe. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10595 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
Was it really? I was thinking it was some disease. If I recall, hadn't he and his family moved down south, Kentucky or Tennessee maybe? | ||
Susanarosa Member Username: Susanarosa Post Number: 1148 Registered: 11-2003 Posted From: 208.39.170.78 |
https://www.atdetroit.net/cgi-bin/f oroum/discus.cgi?pg=next&topic =23585&page=30202 A quote from the article on the above link thread:
Apparently he had bad aim. | ||
Supersport Member Username: Supersport Post Number: 10596 Registered: 10-2003 Posted From: 64.118.137.226 |
LMAO...just stopped in to post that. | ||
Gotdetroit Member Username: Gotdetroit Post Number: 26 Registered: 12-2005 |
Well, I've found one. In case you want to see it.... my username dot com | ||
Andysrc Member Username: Andysrc Post Number: 127 Registered: 07-2005 |
Color version..  | ||
Lowell Board Administrator Username: Lowell Post Number: 3142 Registered: 10-2003 |
You know, he was way ahead of the times with that bare midriff stuff. All the girls copy him now. All he was missing was a belly button piercing and a derrier tattoo. Bubba representin' on the brick streets of Michigan Ave. - a classic tragi-comic figure. | ||
Gianni Member Username: Gianni Post Number: 248 Registered: 05-2004 |
I can almost quote part of the original article that went with the picture. He and his buddies "smoked a couple of bad ones" after drinking a fifth of Old Turkey or something like it and then celebrated in front of the police car they helped turn upside down and set on fire. Bad ones indeed. | ||
Pam Member Username: Pam Post Number: 571 Registered: 11-2005 |
I thought he said he saw a camera and jumped in front of it but he was not involved in starting the fire. | ||
Andysrc Member Username: Andysrc Post Number: 129 Registered: 07-2005 |
I had also always heard he had just stumbled upon the scene and jumped in front of the camera. It makes the story that much more tragic. |
