World's strongest man, pound for pound, dead at 105

"Great Joe Rollino," the strongest man in the world, pound for pound, has died at age 105. He was hit by a car. "He should have bent it in half with his bare hands," says @glennf, upon whose tweetstream I spotted this item.

• [Brainspore]

  I hope God feels up to an arm wrestling match.

  • [Felton]

    Heh! If he offers to arm wrestle Death for his life, we may see him again soon.

• [Anonymous]

  Does any one else find it ironic that this the world’s strongest man was a vegetarian and lived to be 104, and not dying of natural causes. This story just one day after the NY Times runs a story on “urban cavemen” (full disclosure- I am part of the rival vegan tribe).

  Please read the full write up in the NY times. I wish I could have met this gentleman. He sounds amazing. The world will miss him.

  • [Anonymous]

    Quote: “Does any one else find it ironic that this the world’s strongest man was a vegetarian and lived to be 104, and not dying of natural causes. This story just one day after the NY Times runs a story on “urban cavemen” (full disclosure- I am part of the rival vegan tribe).”

    Are you suggesting foul play?

• [rebdav]

  I bet he would have made it to 120, how bad must that driver feel.
  I wanted to imagine him liberating a Nazi death camp single handed by throwing a boulder through the gates and snapping SS officers in half over his knee, but he served in the pacific during the war.
  It breaks my heart when our links to the past die off like this, these people are like walking books of real living history.
  I remember my grandmother speaking of seeing an old man in a parade who had been a Union drummer boy during the US Civil War.