No more Death Race 2000 - RIP David Carradine.

F Body · June 04, 2009, 02:01:22 PM

American actor David Carradine has been found dead in a Bangkok, Thailand hotel. Frankenstein the legend was apparently not Frankenstein the indestructible.

Carradine, who was 72, became famous in the auto community as "Frankenstein" from the film Death Race 2000.

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FUBAR · June 04, 2009, 02:33:30 PM

Damnit Martyn... I was going to post a "Frankenstein is dead!!" thread when I got home!!!

RIP Frankie

Roadkill · June 05, 2009, 03:39:42 AM

Says that he hanged himself . . . . ?

FUBAR · June 05, 2009, 08:37:14 AM

Yeah thats what I heard at work too, bit suprising, I didn't realise he was 72 either

Amey · June 05, 2009, 02:04:53 PM

Quoting: Roadkill

Says that he hanged himself .

Yes and no. They put up the following earlier

Quoting: Sky news

may have died accidentally from suffocation or heart failure during an auto-erotic sex act'

&

Quoting: Sky news

The Kung Fu and Kill Bill star was found with a noose around his neck and another rope around his genitals in a wardrobe in his hotel room in Bangkok.

Police commander Lieutenant General Worapong Siewpreecha said it was unclear whether the 72-year-old killed himself or died from suffocation or heart failure due to ejaculation.

F Body · June 05, 2009, 04:15:13 PM

Quoting: Amey

or died from suffocation or heart failure due to ejaculation.

So one minute he was coming and then he was going

ianjpage · June 06, 2009, 03:40:15 AM

groan...

FUBAR · June 06, 2009, 11:12:37 AM

The papers yesterday were suggesting that he'd been attempting that asphyxiation near death thingy that is supposed to give you a massive natural high (right before killing you)

(saw a prog on TV once about it... very wierd)

daveyboy · June 06, 2009, 11:51:16 AM

shame , believe it it not he is a distant relative. he was my uncles cousin.
ahhhhhhhhhhhhh grasshopper.

FUBAR · June 06, 2009, 12:01:34 PM

Quoting: daveyboy

believe it it not he is a distant relative. he was my uncles cousin

6 Degrees of separation...

FUBAR · June 06, 2009, 12:02:26 PM

hehe on that note, cheers for that, if I ever play that game again you've just given me a perfect route from me to Kevin Bacon via knowing you

daveyboy · June 06, 2009, 12:15:57 PM

thats a bad game.