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rocklee
Joined: 04 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Mon Dec 11, 2006 10:48 pm Post subject: CNET viewers - James Kim dead |
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For those who have been following CNET and their reviews of electronic items will know of senior editor James Kim :
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The body of missing CNET editor James Kim has been located, authorities announced Wednesday.
Kim's body was transported to the Oregon State Police office in Central Point, Ore., and autopsy results released Thursday determined that Kim died of exposure with hypothermia. The 35-year-old Kim had been missing in the remote southwestern Oregon wilderness for 11 days and was found at approximately noon Wednesday about half a mile from the Rogue River, authorities said.
Kim left his family's stranded car Saturday morning searching for help and never returned. Kim apparently traveled in a 10-mile circle and was found less than a mile, separated by a sheer cliff, from where his family's station wagon got stuck in the snow. Officers said there was no way to determine whether he was trying to return to his starting point or if he became disoriented.
"He was very motivated...he traveled a long way," Josephine County Undersheriff Brian Anderson said.
The Kim family has asked that it not be contacted, and that flowers and donations not be sent at this time. Once the family has decided how they want Kim to be honored, CNET will release details.
"They have been true champions throughout this whole ordeal," Lt. Gregg Hastings of the Oregon State Police said of the Kim family. "We just want them to know our thoughts and our prayers have been with them from day one."
After being rescued in good condition Monday, Kim's 30-year-old wife, Kati, and daughters Penelope (4 years) and Sabine (7 months) have been reunited with family members. Kati Kim suffered frostbite on two toes, but will not lose those toes, according to a close family friend. |
http://news.com.com/2100-1028_3-6141498.html
Very sad news indeed. |
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sistersarah
Joined: 03 Jan 2004
Location: hiding out
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 12:18 am Post subject: |
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Yes, this was really sad to hear....
His daughters are soooo cute.
What a terrible thing. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:07 am Post subject: |
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yeah terribe..they waited in the car for a week, then he set off to look for help.. 2 days later someone found the car! only if he waited!
JESUS, only if he didnt take that wrong turn...
anyway terrible for the family.. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:02 am Post subject: |
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| That really sucks. I'm thinking more of the pain for his family than anything. From all I've read, and I have been following it, this was one super dedicated daddy. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:06 am Post subject: |
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| I've watched a fair bit of James Kim on Cnet. Sad news. Seemed like a really nice guy. |
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:10 am Post subject: |
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Sad indeed, I wonder how often his kind of thing happens, or were they just very, very unlucky? Can't understand why a guy with his sort of dosh was driving a station wagon and not a Humvee, especially in that area. Life's a bitch, no matter how much cash you have.  |
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Captain Corea
Joined: 28 Feb 2005
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:27 am Post subject: |
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Very sad news.
At least he died trying to help his family - I could think of worse ways to go. |
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poet13
Joined: 22 Jan 2006
Location: Just over there....throwing lemons.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:39 am Post subject: |
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"Can't understand why a guy with his sort of dosh was driving a station wagon and not a Humvee,"
??? That is so off-topic. Start another thread if you have to. |
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JongnoGuru
Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep
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| Posted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 3:40 am Post subject: |
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| itaewonguy wrote: |
yeah terrible..they waited in the car for a week, then he set off to look for help.. 2 days later someone found the car! only if he waited!
JESUS, only if he didnt take that wrong turn... |
I don't think I've ever read an account of a real-life tragedy, at least not recently, with as many heartbreaking "if only's" and "what if's" as this one has. Nor has any other gotten me thinking so often as I read it, "No!! Don't FUCKing DO THAT!!"... and at the same time knowing in the pit of my stomach, in the back of my mind, that I too might have made those same fatal choices that he did were I right there dealing with it all. I just don't think I'd have made it as far as he did after he left the car. Have a look at the orange & red line that he walked. In tennis shoes. Without a hat. On no food for a week. In the freezing cold. Over tortuous, unrelenting terrain especially in the final six (?) miles.
http://www.layoutscene.com/james-kim-path/james-kim/james-kim-path000.jpg (be sure to click the button to maximise)
I wish a drunk driver veered into their lane and killed him instead. And yeah, I realise how bad that sounds even as I type it. Better that his wife and children have to deal with a hellish split second that they had no control over and that was over and done so fast, there's nothing to dwell on -- rather than playing over & over in their minds a long series of dreadfully unlucky decisions culminating in a bitterly cold, hungry, stress-filled, torturous "last moment" that lasted over a week. God, can you imagine the regrets, the images, the memories, and the pain that his wife is going to have to avoid dwelling on for the rest of her life.
Yeah, the way he died trying to rescue his family is a testament to his total dedication to & love for his family, etc., and that's now the default "lesson" that his loved ones, friends, all of us are meant to take away from this horror. Ain't worth the price, that lesson. If you ask me. Never a drunk driver around when you need one.
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
Location: Khon Kaen, Thailand
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