Oh! Beautiful. Oh! gracious skies.
In the end you die of stupidity or else you number was called.
Only Bush rules!

People read too much into some things--this guy was doing something that many of us might have done--I built my own house once serving as the general contractor and I am not rich by any stretch of the imagination ---there are lots of hazards around a construction site--something like this could have happened to me I suppose or anyone else who does something like this and why is it bad that he was building a new garage?? It's just one of those things, this man's accident---$#it happens!!! I think it kind of crazy that some people seemed to assume because he was wealthy, he was someohow evil--I think it something that as the "big boss" of his company--he was doing something he no doubt could have left in the hands of an underling---but I bet he was one of those hands on kind of people---it is too bad that this man died--especially during the holidays and in the process of working on a new house or at least some kind of renovation or some such--damn folks--are we not allowed some degree of success in life???? He has a family that is going to grieve his loss---

Normally
...the rich die in bed like everyone else but
also tend to die indulging in being rich
like
...JFK Junior who crashed his plane
...Natalie Wood who fell off a yatch
...Sunny creashing into a tree while skiing
...Princess Diana partying in PARIS while sons
..........are back in England; absentee mother
...James Dean racing his Porsche
...Jimi Hendric, Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, ........John Belushi, Elvis Presley, Marilyn
........Monroe
.........overdosing on expensive drugs

EVERYONE ON TEH PLANET KNOWS THAT ROOFING IS
BY FAR THE MOST DANGEROUS
PROFESSION
IN
THE
WORLD. THUS ONE MUST ASSUME THAT THE WORLD'S RICHEST ROOFER ALSO KNOWS THIS. THERE IS NO ROOM FOR ERROR. THEREFORE it is likely although not certain that the fall was the consequence of something else --- anything is possible from a sudden faint to being surprised by a bird. Time will tell.

If he built it, it will fall.

Obviously, most of the posters are jealous of success. Always remember that jealousy is the dagger of defeat.

I suggest that you read Atlas Shrugged.

Who is John Galt?

WTF is a 61 year old billionaire doing on a roof checking construction? What the matter, is he too cheap to hire a licensed contractor that he can trust?

Inc.com ran a story stating Hendricks had a "Bush/Cheney sticker on [his Jeep's] bumper and an Ann Coulter book on the back seat."

Also had a reputation as a "slum lord" and was spanked in 2001 for campaign finance shenanigans, but otherwise, a really swell guy.

"Should never laugh when a hearse goes by, for you may be the next to die..."

He's a repuklican lover and got caught exceeding campaign contributions in 2001.
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?last=Hendricks&first=Ken

Who is checking on all the other roofs he built?

Capitalism kills....

Divine Sense of Humor strikes again.

Sure,,,,,,,he just found out his Billions of dollars will become worthless when the dollar tanks.

He took a dive.

In the past, the rich often died when the floor came out from under them.

Often, they wore a special necktie.

I remember Rod Serling during an original episode of Twilight Zone. Can't remember which one it was but he closed that episode with . . . .

"There's a saying every man is put on earth condemned to die. Time and method of execution unknown. Perhaps this is as it should be."

Sad twist to a life isn't it?

BTW, what ever happened to Steve Fosset?