The details are still murky, and the conspiracy theorists are having a field day with this one, but if the anti-GOP ever needed a martyr...
"By any widely accepted standard, I have had more than nine lives. I counted them up once and there were 13 times that I almost and maybe should have died -- from emergencies with fires to violence, drowning, bombs. I guess I am an action junkie, yeah. There may be some genetic imperative that caused me to get into certain situations. It's curiosity, I guess. As long as I'm learning something I figure I'm OK -- it's a decent day."
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7005168/
Downward-spiral of dumbness, indeed.