Urso Autopsy Report: Death by Natural Causes
Posted on September 21, 2012 9:54 pm
The Franklin County (Ohio) Coroner, Dr. Jan Gorniak, is preparing the final autopsy report on the death of Columbus Crew midfielder Kirk Urso. (Hat tip to BigSoccer legend “foozer”)
Adam Jardy of the Columbus Dispatch is reporting that Gorniak will rule that the cause of death was an arrhythmic right ventricular cardiomyopathy; basically, his heart quit beating in rhythm and as a result stopped pumping blood.
In other words, natural causes.
The blood work revealed that he had small quantities of Tylenol and caffeine in his system and a blood alcohol level of .14.
None of which had anything to do with his death.
The imbecile “bar employee” (aka “bouncer”) who found him in a back booth and who decided the best thing to do would be to pick him up, carry him out of the bar and across the street and lean him up against a tree – in other words, an idiot – might have been better advised to, you know, call 911 instead of diagnosing the situation on his own.
Fortunately, a policeman who was on the scene because of another incident saw the imbecile lugging the lifeless and quickly expiring Urso aroud like a sack of corn had better sense and called for the medics.
As for the utterly appalling female “bar employee” who was – even more appallingly – quoted in Sports Illustrated at the time as saying that Urso was “drunk”, “fell down” and was “unconscious”, well, at least we can say that she’s not expected to have more sense. Unfortunately we can’t say the same about SI, who had damned well better have a correction and an apology on the presses as we speak.
As for the Urso family, I know we all share in the prayer that this report may offer the beginning of whatever kind of closure is possible after so profound a loss.
(Note: I’m still on very limited access – posting today using a rock, some sticks and a bear skin – please excuse the lack of graphics and links.)
Why do you not expect the female bar employee to have more sense? Maybe there’s an aspect of her behavior that isn’t described here, and that I’m unfamiliar with. As it stands it reeks of sexism, and I’m disappointed to read that in your work. I hope you can think about it and make a proper apology and clarification.
I have absolutely no intention whatsoever of engaging in the “Oh goodness, some of my best friends are women” defense you apparently are hoping for. Sorry.
As for your stupidassed argument, the woman lied about stuff she obviously had no knowledge of and I find this utterly appalling. If you disagree, great.
But it seems mostly that you object to me calling her a female. Well, sorry, she IS a female. It would be dishonest to call her anything else. The police report called her a female. The coroner called her a femle. Adam Jardy in The Dispatch article called her a female. Unless you’realready written to all of them complaining about the use of the term “female” which, apparently, you feel is an offensive insult, then what the hell are you bugging me for?
If you want to see her described as “a human” or “an entity” or something, well, get your own blog and stop cluttering up mine with irrelevant bullshit.
That’s a surprisingly defensive response. I am not trying to engage you in the bullshit defense that you suggest. You pulled that out of thin air. I’m only trying to clarify if there is more to your reasoning that the woman can’t be expected to have more sense. If there is more information that you haven’t provided then you have the power to make a correction, as I’ve already asked. If there isn’t more rationale then there’s only one conclusion to make about how you view women.
I see nothing in the article that “reeks” of sexism. Unless you want to accuse the write of being prejudice against bouncers as well for using that term. As a medical professional, I would say the employers were rather moronic to not call 911 when someone is unconscious in their establishment. Feel free for any lawyers to chime in, but I think any liable is more apparent here than had they called 911..
Please take your phony outrage somewhere else. Bill was being factual, nothing more, nothing less.
What I’ve said and felt is neither “outrage” nor “phony”. I’ve presented a cool and collected analysis of what I’ve read, and didn’t expect the kind of reaction that some folks are having.
Also, making a character judgment about a female “bar employee” (regardless of what people think the quotations mean–I’m not taking issue with that) based on her saying that he was drunk and fell down is not “factual”.
The aspect is she said Urso was drunk and fell down which from what I have read was simply not true. To put it another way some say she was lying her ass off and SI ran with it. Strange how bloggers are held to higher standards than journalists sometimes. RIP Urso.
If a journalist had written it I would have said the same thing. So what if she said he was drunk and fell down? Maybe she heard that from someone else. Why would that mean that she isn’t expected to have more sense? It seems like Archer’s only criteria, at least as is presented in this piece, is that she’s a woman. At the end of the day, blogger or not, Bill Archer is a big and important name in the US soccer community and should be held to a high standard. Beyond that, sexism is serious no matter who we’re talking about.
The fact that Bill referred to her as a “bar employee” in quotation marks implies that he knows more about her than simply that she is a woman.
I first stated that he provided no basis on which to say that we shouldn’t expect her to have more sense. I did not say that he doesn’t know more about her. But he hasn’t provided any details that would give anyone any reason to expect her to not have any sense–but he sure gives the impression that it’s because, and only because, she’s a woman. Being a “bar employee” doesn’t mean she doesn’t have any sense. It is very clear to me.
Well, he did put “bar employee” in quotation marks for the dude who dragged Urso’s body outside, too. I’d have to agree that Bill’s got more ‘on the ground’ knowledge about the people (and bar) involved. My feminist creds are pretty good and I’m not getting a ping on the ol’ misogyny radar here.
I haven’t followed the story closely but it does appear that whomever removed Urso’s body from the bar (in an attempt to cover the bar’s own ass) and whomever is quoted as saying Urso was very drunk & passed out both to SI and 911 (based on the two articles I read) are dealt with by more than just a “don’t do that again” lecture. They should never work in a bar again (at the least).
And Columbus area folks? I personally would never spend my money in an establishment that I knew dragged an unconscious person out instead of calling 911. I hope you all have a similar view.
Not too many bar owners want paramedics called to their establishment. To state the obvious, it’s bad for business. What’s worse for business is having an employee physically remove an unconscious person from the premises. Best case scenario it’s negligence…worse case scenario: you’ve got something to hide.
It’s irrelevant in relation to the cause of death, but may add weight to the bar employee’s perception if all the alcohol Urso consumed that night was at that bar: Someone who weighs 160 pounds typically needs to drink a six pack to get to a blood alcohol level of 0.14.
I haven’t read much on this whole nightmare except the initial headlines but I guess my first question would be where were his friends when all this went down ? I can’t believe someone of Urso’s background and stature would be in a bar on his own ?
Any time I see natural causes listed as the cause of death for someone very young and in peak physical condition, it’s comforting to know that it wasn’t anything sinister, but also incredibly disturbing that someone who appears to be very healthy, can just die in an instant.
The BAC is a red herring. He was legally drunk but so what. .14 isn’t much to get worried about unless you’re behind the wheel.
What I hope from this is that the the “bar” gets “sued” for “bagloads of money”.
Peter Nowak doesn’t work for the Crew. He does need a job though…
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