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Topic: Collector Bobby Slice injured in car accident
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gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3413
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-07-2011 04:09 AM
   
Bobby had kindly offered to help me with a few items at the ASF show. I had an email from Bobby's wife yesterday: Saturday morning we were all packed up and heading to the show when a truck ran a Red Light and struck our vehicle on the driver's side causing severe damage and severely hurting Bobby. I was just shaken up real bad. When they got him to the hospital and ran a Cat Scan etc., he was rushed to surgery with a fractured left hip, fractured eye orbital and a crushed thoracic vertebrae. Please join me in sending best wishes for a speedy recovery. |
mmmoo
Member Posts: 564
From: London, England
Registered: May 2001
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posted 11-07-2011 05:19 AM
That's shocking news! Hope you get well soon Bobby. |
KSCartist
Member Posts: 2998
From: Titusville, FL
Registered: Feb 2005
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posted 11-07-2011 05:54 AM
For Bobby and his family -You are all in our prayers for a speedy recovery. |
Scott
Member Posts: 3312
From: Houston, TX
Registered: May 2001
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posted 11-07-2011 06:51 AM
Sorry to hear. Hope you get well soon, Bobby. |
4allmankind
Member Posts: 1073
From: Dallas
Registered: Jan 2004
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posted 11-07-2011 08:23 AM
What terrible news. A car accident when on vacation must be an even more stressful situation when not near family or local/familiar medical services, etc. Hoping he has a quick and speedy recovery. |
benfairfax
Member Posts: 201
From: NSW Australia
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 11-07-2011 08:26 AM
Fingers crossed and all good wishes. |
MikeSpace
Member Posts: 96
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2020
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posted 11-07-2011 08:36 AM
Yow. Here's to a speedy recovery. |
SkyMan1958
Member Posts: 1104
From: CA.
Registered: Jan 2011
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posted 11-07-2011 09:34 AM
Best wishes for a speedy recovery! |
space1
Member Posts: 899
From: Danville, Ohio
Registered: Dec 2002
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posted 11-07-2011 09:57 AM
Keeping you and your family in our prayers. |
history in miniature
Member Posts: 618
From: Slatington, PA
Registered: Mar 2009
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posted 11-07-2011 09:57 AM
I was shocked to see this message, Get Well soon Bobby, terrible news indeed. |
Jay Chladek
Member Posts: 2272
From: Bellevue, NE, USA
Registered: Aug 2007
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posted 11-07-2011 10:38 AM
That is going to be a long recovery. Must have been a big truck to do that kind of damage. Let's hope it is a complete recovery at least. And I'll be praying for him as well. |
randy
Member Posts: 2485
From: West Jordan, Utah USA
Registered: Dec 1999
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posted 11-07-2011 11:10 AM
Hope you get well soon. |
paulus humungus
Member Posts: 400
From: Burton, Derbyshire, England
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted 11-07-2011 01:48 PM
Bobby has kindly helped me out on a number of occasions at past signings. This is shocking to hear and my best wishes go to him and his family at this distressing time. |
David Stephenson
Member Posts: 294
From: England
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 11-07-2011 01:50 PM
Get well soon, very sad what happened. |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-07-2011 02:32 PM
Best wishes for speedy (and full) recovery. |
Russ Still
Member Posts: 535
From: Atlanta, GA USA
Registered: Nov 1999
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posted 11-07-2011 09:48 PM
Best of luck to you, Bobby!
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Larry McGlynn
Member Posts: 1344
From: Boston, MA
Registered: Jul 2003
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posted 11-08-2011 07:38 AM
Bobby, our family wishes you the best of luck and a complete recovery. You take care and you are in our prayers. |
Richard Rogers
Member Posts: 49
From: Desoto, Tx
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 11-08-2011 07:51 AM
Bobby: Thoughts and Prayers for a speedy recovery. |
ejectr
Member Posts: 1859
From: Killingly, CT
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-08-2011 08:33 AM
My thoughts and prayers go out to Bobby and his family and that he may experience a speedy recovery. |
GACspaceguy
Member Posts: 2735
From: Guyton, GA
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-08-2011 08:34 AM
Bobby and family, we will be praying for a speedy recovery. So sorry this happened. |
rjurek349
Member Posts: 1219
From: Northwest Indiana
Registered: Jan 2002
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posted 11-08-2011 07:22 PM
Bobby -- we're all pulling for ya'. Take care and speedy recovery! Rich |
dss65
Member Posts: 1266
From: Sandpoint, ID, USA
Registered: Mar 2003
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posted 11-08-2011 09:24 PM
I'm also pulling for you, Bobby.------------------
Don |
Mike Z
Member Posts: 451
From: Ellicott City, Maryland
Registered: Dec 2005
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posted 11-08-2011 11:12 PM
All the best Bobby and a fast recovery and and an easy physical therapy. You are in our prayers!! |
machbusterman
Member Posts: 1779
From: Dunfermline, Fife, Scotland
Registered: May 2004
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posted 11-09-2011 03:39 PM
Wishing you a speedy and full recovery Bobby!! What a terrible thing to happen when you're on your way to attend an event you've been looking forward... shocking!! |
Blackarrow
Member Posts: 3368
From: Belfast, United Kingdom
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-09-2011 05:51 PM
My thoughts exactly. Best wishes for a full recovery! |
mach3valkyrie
Member Posts: 729
From: Albany, Oregon
Registered: Jul 2006
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posted 11-11-2011 11:54 AM
A few years back, Bobby was kind enough to have Jim Lovell complete an Apollo 8 item for me at the ASF show. I've never met him in person, and yet he went out of his way to help. Here's wishing you a Full and Speedy recovery! Thanks Bobby. |
Rizz
Member Posts: 1208
From: Upcountry, Maui, Hawaii
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 11-11-2011 10:08 PM
Well wishes from the tropics Bobby for a swift and full recovery. |
astro-nut
Member Posts: 1018
From: Washington, IL
Registered: Jan 2006
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posted 11-13-2011 12:24 PM
Get well soon and a speedy recovery!!! |
KAPTEC
Member Posts: 600
From: Madrid, Spain
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted 11-18-2011 03:13 AM
I did not read this untill now... My best wishes for a very quickly recovery Bobby! |
mjanovec
Member Posts: 3811
From: Midwest, USA
Registered: Jul 2005
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posted 11-18-2011 12:15 PM
Any updates on Bobby's condition? Hopefully he is progressing smoothly towards recovery. |
MikeSpace
Member Posts: 96
From: USA
Registered: Jun 2020
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posted 11-18-2011 03:00 PM
In the spirit of the collectSPACE family I'll be attending Spacefest IV and if Bobby isn't and needs some stuff signed, I will gladly assist. Here I am whining about having to leave early after running out of money/CC snafus. All of that doesn't mean anything after reading this. Hope the recovery is going well.
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gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3413
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 11-21-2011 03:57 AM
I received a welcome update from Bobby's wife, Addie: I got your card and took it to the hospital along with a print out of all the collectSPACE members that are pulling for him. Even though he has had three major surgeries and is in a lot of pain. It is going to be a long recovery. When I showed him the print out of all the collectSPACE members and your card it brought tears to him as he did not realize how tight a community he had with his fellow collectors. He has been down listed from critical to stable condition and hopefully I will be able to bring him home in a couple of weeks. Our vehicle was totaled in the accident as they measured the other drivers skid marks and they concluded he struck us around 65 mph. Thank goodness it impacted on the cross beam and we were in a SUV. We both send our thanks and all the prayers sent our way as he really could use them. I will keep you posted Paul as his condition improves. |
paulus humungus
Member Posts: 400
From: Burton, Derbyshire, England
Registered: Oct 2005
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posted 11-21-2011 02:11 PM
Paul, thank you for posting this update. It really brings home how serious Bobby was injured and his fight to get back to full health. Again... very best wishes Bobby. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 11-21-2011 02:31 PM
Glad to hear he is doing better. Best wishes on his continued recovery. |
Bob M
Member Posts: 1797
From: Atlanta-area, GA USA
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 11-21-2011 03:14 PM
Very best wishes, Bobby. |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3413
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 01-09-2012 12:06 PM
An update from Bobby's wife: Bobby was doing a lot before Christmas and a couple of days before Christmas he was having a difficult time breathing and I contacted his doctor who performed the surgery and they said to get him to the ER ASAP and an ambulance rushed him back to the hospital. They did numerous tests on him. What happened was from all the surgeries he developed blood clots even with him being on a blood thinner medicine a small blood clot broke free and went to a lung. This is what I basically got from his doctor's and this set him back. The Good Lord was with him because these sometimes can be fatal. I will keep you posted the best I can as my hands are full. |
Lou Chinal
Member Posts: 1371
From: Staten Island, NY
Registered: Jun 2007
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posted 01-09-2012 01:16 PM
I hope this crisis will pass quickly. We are all waiting to hear how entry interface goes. Everyone wants you to make a safe landing. |
gliderpilotuk
Member Posts: 3413
From: London, UK
Registered: Feb 2002
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posted 02-05-2013 07:04 AM
An update: not on Bobby's health as there has been radio silence since I requested the refund of the cash advance I made for the items he was taking to the show. I sent Bobby over $1500 to get some items signed at the show, never having met the guy, but trusting his reputation. My items were returned by his wife - eventually, but she has steadfastly refused to acknowledge any of my requests for the cash back (after nearly 18 months). This is despite the fact that she openly sold some of Bobby's collection directly here on cS and on eBay. Of course my request for funds based on her sales was ignored. Although I'm not a US citizen I am now reluctantly considering filing at the Small Claims Office in Lee County, Fla., as the only chance of any recovery — unless anyone has any better ideas! I guess this is a lesson in misplaced empathy on my side and absolute abuse of trust, if not theft, on the other. |
AJ
Member Posts: 511
From: Plattsburgh, NY, United States
Registered: Feb 2009
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posted 02-05-2013 07:52 AM
Wow! That's a sad, strange twist. That she is selling some of his collection makes me wonder about how Bobby is doing, if he is still with us at all.Sometimes you have to to what you have to do, pleasant or not. It's not a small amount of money and if you have documentation between you and Bobby about the money and what it was intended for, then I'd say you have a pretty fair case. Did you use Paypal? Maybe they have ways of getting you your money back. I wish you good luck. It's sad that Bobby's wife won't do what is fair. We tend to be trusting in this hobby and in life in general and sometimes that comes back to bite us. |
alanh_7
Member Posts: 1259
From: Ajax, Ontario, Canada
Registered: Apr 2008
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posted 02-05-2013 09:34 AM
I am not making judgements. I do not know the gentleman in question and do not know his current circumstances though I wish him good health. I do know I have taken many items to shows for people, and had items taken to shows by others involving thousands of dollars in cash with out any sort of formal documentation between either parties (other than insuructions as to how the items should be signed) and it has always worked out. The space collecting community being relatively small compared to other hobbies — and at least based on my experience — has often been word of mouth and honour system. So when this happens and a collector may be out of pocket, it really does tarnish the trust within the hobby. I hope this is not the case and it is some sort of misunderstanding. |
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