Bob Saget dead at 65 -- hours after performing live

[Only4Justice]

I didn’t say foul play. I was thinking more in line with misadventure.

I agree.

 

[Tssiemer]

The real issue isn't whether BS could have died from a fall. That happens frequently, especially if you're over 60. The issue is that the *severity* of the injury is being compared to injuries which produce far less damage; the comparison simply is not valid. Example:

...CNN colloquy between Don Lemon and Dr. Sanjay Gupta. “We wondered if anyone watching the segment,” he wrote (the author of the article) “had failed to wonder whether Saget had perhaps been the victim of a violent assault.”

Well, not me, particularly. But then I’d gotten my bell rung in a rugby match many years ago. Aroused with smelling salts, I finished the game on my feet, but woke up in a hospital a week later diagnosed with a concussion but no memory of how I’d gotten there. I’d passed out over breakfast. An ambulance took me to the emergency room. Brain injuries can be tricky.

from nationalmemo.com/bob-saget-murder

If he'd received the blow BS suffered, he would not be finishing anything..he'd be on a stretcher with his friends gathered around him in shock.


R.st.J

So a hilarious story of how I amassed an over $200,000 trauma team medical bill after falling down my sister's stairs and knocking myself unconscious for less than 10 minutes. I come to naked, with my clothes cut off, and in an ambulance taken to a trauma hospital where I was met by a doctor from every department (they just lined up in the hallway outside the trauma room) and had pretty much a full-body scan then they kept me for 3 days for observation. I was told multiple times you do not want to mess around with head trauma.

 

[ChatteringBirds]

I have experienced a "minimal investigation" first-han

So sorry for your loss, @ar3593 .

 

[ChatteringBirds]

If this happened to my loved-one, I would not want photos, details, etc. published all over the media. I don't understand the assumption that there must be additional "personal" details they are hiding. I feel for his family.

What we haven't heard from forensic pathologists: could a person who takes such a hard fall resulting in this type of fracture really manage to make it from elsewhere in the room up onto the bed to lie down? Though I assume the answer is still yes, it's possible. (?)

 

[gngr~snap]

I don't doubt for a second that BS could have gotten himself into bed.
Google "Peter Porco". This man had open head injuries, from an ax. He was hit 16 times and he was
unaware. He woke up, packed a lunch,
attempted to unload the dishwasher…
Even went outside to get the paper!
Horrible story, but he had no idea!
I'm sure neurologists know what portions of BS brain would have been affected, but it can and does happen.
MOO

 

[Gardenista]

I don't doubt for a second that BS could have gotten himself into bed.
Google "Peter Porco". This man had open head injuries, from an ax. He was hit 16 times and he was
unaware. He woke up, packed a lunch,
attempted to unload the dishwasher…
Even went outside to get the paper!
Horrible story, but he had no idea!
I'm sure neurologists know what portions of BS brain would have been affected, but it can and does happen.
MOO

Wow, that's crazy.

 

[Seattle1]

I don't doubt for a second that BS could have gotten himself into bed.
Google "Peter Porco". This man had open head injuries, from an ax. He was hit 16 times and he was
unaware. He woke up, packed a lunch,
attempted to unload the dishwasher…
Even went outside to get the paper!
Horrible story, but he had no idea!
I'm sure neurologists know what portions of BS brain would have been affected, but it can and does happen.
MOO

Yes!! I recall this case -- took time but his son was convicted of murdering his father with the ax. I recall his disfigured mother (also attacked by the son) who defended her son until the end!

Christopher Porco | Murderpedia, the encyclopedia of murderers

ETA: Also See YT
Forensic Files (HD) - Season 13, Episode 25 - Family Ties -

 

[Coppertop15]

I don't doubt for a second that BS could have gotten himself into bed.
Google "Peter Porco". This man had open head injuries, from an ax. He was hit 16 times and he was
unaware. He woke up, packed a lunch,
attempted to unload the dishwasher…
Even went outside to get the paper!
Horrible story, but he had no idea!
I'm sure neurologists know what portions of BS brain would have been affected, but it can and does happen.
MOO

All I can find is that he was dead in the bedroom.

 

[jjenny]

When I was a teen, I remember sitting on the railing near my school. I fell backwards from the railing and hit my head hard on a pavement. I didn't go to a doctor and nothing happened to me. I was embarrassed and didn't even tell anybody. Apparently I have a hard head. Scary to think of what could have happened after Bob Saget somehow managed to injure himself so badly in a hotel room.

 

[Bravo]

A fatal head injury can take hours to become fatal. How my Mom died. She didn't tell anyone she had fallen around 2 p.m. Symptoms set in around 7 p.m. CT scan done right away and on life support. It was so quick. She felt fine prior.

 

[jjenny]

A fatal head injury can take hours to become fatal. How my Mom died. She didn't tell anyone she had fallen around 2 p.m. Symptoms set in around 7 p.m. CT scan done right away and on life support. It was so quick. She felt fine prior.

For sure. But in Bob's case he had broken bones in his skull. He would have been in a lot of pain from what experts have said. His wasn't the type of injury he would have felt fine aftewards.

 

[Enid's Coffeebreak]

I tend to feel it was accidental.
Just speculation on my part. If Mr Saget took a hard fall in the bathroom, hitting his head hard enough to cause the fracture, he may have felt very disoriented, even if he had experienced brief LOC. He may have made his way to his bed to lay down, trying to become oriented again. Possibly developed a subdural hematoma that can turn fatal quickly, but not always immediately.

Such a sad shock for his family. My deepest sympathies to his loved ones.

 

[Bravo]

For sure. But in Bob's case he had broken bones in his skull. He would have been in a lot of pain from what experts have said. His wasn't the type of injury he would have felt fine aftewards.

Thanks for that. I had missed that he had broken bones. So very sad.

 

[no nonsense]

Agree with @GatorFL . Not only was there nothing reported on any cameras, but the electronic key showed that his hotel room moor had not been opened/closed again until the staff member went in to check on him.

 

[no nonsense]

Not sure which type of suite he was in, but google bathroom photos of the Royal Suite (I’ve tried to link photos but the files are apparently too big).

 

[10ofRods]

Yes @branmuffin -- it's true. You probably recall the coroner deferred to the family not to make the AR public (release to news media) since the investigation was closed as an accidental drowning while sleep walking (no foul play). We still wondered about whether foul play could have been involved -- enough to the point we obtained the AR and Toxicology.

Srsly? That's a huge wow from me. WOW.

How could sleep-walking explain the skull fractures? Are they saying he fractured his skull somehow, then fell asleep and sleep-walked to the bathtub, getting in and drowning?

How very bizarre. Not that we need to know all the details, just saying.

The trip and fall idea is so far the best (given how that took William Holden out and people over 60 are far more at risk from death after a head blow that might not kill a 20 year old).

 

[jjenny]

"Months before he was found dead, comedian Bob Saget made a haunting comment during an episode of his podcast.

"I don't have long to live. I'm going to be found dead in bed," he told his wife, Kelly Rizzo, during an October broadcast of "Bob Saget's Here for You.""

Haunting Bob Saget Podcast Features Him Saying, 'I'm Going to Be Found Dead in Bed' | Inside Edition

 

[Mica]

Not sure which type of suite he was in, but google bathroom photos of the Royal Suite (I’ve tried to link photos but the files are apparently too big).

Royal Suite bathroom photos.

 

[Gardenista]

"Months before he was found dead, comedian Bob Saget made a haunting comment during an episode of his podcast.

"I don't have long to live. I'm going to be found dead in bed," he told his wife, Kelly Rizzo, during an October broadcast of "Bob Saget's Here for You.""

Haunting Bob Saget Podcast Features Him Saying, 'I'm Going to Be Found Dead in Bed' | Inside Edition

What in the world?????

 

[no nonsense]

Royal Suite bathroom photos.

Thanks!