Hunter S Thompson's parting shot

"Friends and admirers of the gonzo journalist Hunter S Thompson have been gathering in Aspen, Colorado for his final send-off - in a cannon shot. The writer's ashes are to be fired from a cannon on his Owl Farm home, exactly six months after he shot himself. Johnny Depp, who played Thompson in the film of his book Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, paid for the cannon."

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