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.... Death is Certain,
But Nothing is Less Certain Than the Hour ...

Shortly after Christmas in 2006,
we´ve lost a lot more than a friend...

Wherever you are Edi, have a beer on us ...
and we down here have one on you as well....

We will always miss u..

Beer is food

Anyone else remember the "Eddie from Texas" impersonation?


Somewhere I've got a photo of him in a supermarket in Oak Hill, using a can of red bull to sodomize a lifesize cardboard cutout of Felix.

Tomorrow it´s been exactly four years since this horrible day at Itw...

Thank you Guys again for this jump

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzU_XeT90uw

Hey Edi, I loved you and hated you. You would do anything for your friends and nothing for for yourself. same as me. I remember that you were my main contact in Bad Tölz. So when I went to your funeral, I kept wanting to call you about the best way to get to the church. You rocked with other people. Just not with your self.
See ya soon.
Take care,
space
ps. Today the 27th is 4yrs since.

I had privilege to know Eddie and to do some videos with him.
Here is one of mine all time favorites.
Hope you will like it too: "What can possibly go wrong" - http://vimeo.com/11716074.

Remember meeting Eddy in KL, neither of us had got our forms in ontime and so were stuck sitting on the floor of the lobby of the petronus twin towers waiting for the police chief of KL to decide whether or not we were a terrorist/criminal threat,

Ran into him again in Lauterbrunnen years later, in what turned out to be a week of way too much. Attached is a photo Jeb took, the other person in the photo is Jimmy Freeman

 

Edi Kraus had me and a few others stay over at his place in 2005 , he was super nice and was an awesome host. He took us on a fun jump off the " Euro " Bridge the next day , with Mr Utah... a wonderful experience for all. I remember his enthusiasm and hospitality, a really great guy.