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07/03/2008 Entry: "7/4/2008: Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark July 30, 1987, page 1"

Letter from Charles A. Smith to Joe Roark, July 30, 1987, page 1:

Thanks for your letter post dated July 27th which reached me yesterday, July 29th. Before I answer your letter, here is the info from POWER HOT LINE, June 30th, 1987:

MATT DIMEL�S DISASTERS. John Inzer informed us of Matt�s recent travails. While trying a 1020 squat in Louie Simmons gym in Columbus his foot slipped---with a video going of all things and his knees �exploded�- tendons muscles etc tearing loose. He even tore a biceps on the way down with the bar and ruptured an artery. He went through 9-1/2 hours of surgery- constructive- with three surgeons working away. He lost forty pounds of bodyweight and his thighs went from 36 to 27 inches after the operation, but it wasn�t the end of it. Later he began having chest pains and a blood clot from the extensive surgery lodged in a ventricle. He was prepped for heart surgery but they were able to dissolve the clot with intravenous drugs. Nonetheless, he was in intensive care for two days. Following that, in a wheelchair he had an accident in a handicapped bathroom and tore something else. That might not be the end of it as we have heard of additional problems on the way. Still, Matt claims he is coming back and reportedly wanted the normal size Teflon parts that had been inserted in his knee joints replaced with OVERSIZE EQUIPMENT TO HANDLE DEMANDS OF HIS FUTURE PLANS. (My caps.)

Now here we have this bibulous Bombay Booby claiming to have not only pressed overhead, but supported a weight seven times greater than that which caused Dimel�s disaster. But we have an ever greater booby in Dimel who after experiencing what he should have taken as a warning, wants heavier equipment than he now has in order to pursue his headlong path to permanent residence in a wheelchair. Well, we have�em all- all sorts of bloody idiots willing to risk not only their own health and happiness, but that of their friends, families and others who care for them.

[to be continued]