The wild eyed kid you see pictured was Marty Ramsey. The photo is dated 2008, around the time him and I went to the same high school. While we weren't super close growing up or going to school together I learned this morning that he's the guy our local newspapers had been talking about.. I'd read that someone was killed after unknowingly driving their snowmobile off a good 20 meter (~65 feet) river bank at high speed.. Only to hear from a chick I used to bang back in the day that I ran into while trekking about town earlier that it was a guy we had gone to high school with. Fuck.. :/ What a way to go...

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This guy was a class act, quick thinker, athlete, troll and asshat at times but he had a good heart. He'd started a family, grown up and ultimately became a Canadian that most in these parts would agree was good people. The news of his death shocked me a bit and was yet another reminder that our lives are so incredibly fragile, with tomorrow not promised.

The part that saddens me the most is that he leaves behind his family. I believe he'd settled down and had a couple kids with his sweetheart, one of his kids is no older than 2 months old or so.. Just sort of sucks knowing that he had his shit together and was building a good life for himself and family only to have it cut short by something that could have likely been avoided.