androkid has passed away

[Guest johnboy]

I just read over at Muscle Service Station that Androkid has passed away at the young age of 24. I never met him but we did exchange a few pleasant emails. He had a reputation for being a kind and caring individual. He will surely be missed. God bless him and may he rest in peace.

[jaynnj]

This is such sad news . I never really got to Meet

Androkid but did read his posts on the Muscle Service station.

I always wanted to meet him but unfortunatly never got a chance too.

My heart is very heavy and its sad to hear that someone so young

was taken from us. My prayers go out to his familly and those who loved him.

[Guest]

Is the cause of his death public knowledge?

[Guest Love Bubble Butt]

Who's Androkid?

 

It is so sad for someone so young. Another sad reminder that none of us should take tomorrow for granted. I'll be the first to admit that I'm guilty of that. :-(

[Candyman]

It seems that he pass away in his sleep. Please before anyone starts speculating why and trashing his memory. Why not celebrate his short but beautiful life and morn for his passing. He will be missed by many.

[Guest BillyT955211]

Here is Timmy's obituary. I have taken out personal identifying information for his privacy:

 

TIMOTHY

02/05/2003

 

 

TIMOTHY, 24, of (city deleted), a personal trainer and former carpenter, died unexpectedly Monday at home.

 

The funeral will be held at 10 a.m.

[Guest]

Maybe I've missed something, but if it's in the newspaper obituary, what's the big secret? And why does a dead man need privacy?

[marc anthony]

>Maybe I've missed something, but if it's in the newspaper

>obituary, what's the big secret? And why does a dead man need

>privacy?

 

Well, the newspaper is not going to identify Timothy as androkid, as posting that obit on this forum does.

 

And maybe Timothy may no longer care about his privacy, but his survivors may.

 

I thought the posting done by Billy was tastefully done... IMHO

[Guest Sports]

I'm surprised personal information was permitted to be posted. Muscle Service's response to posting personal information seems much more rational:

 

 

Those of you who have posted Androkid's real name and information about his service, his obituary, his home town, etc., I believe you have done this with the best of intentions and I don't fault you for it.

 

However, and this point is crucial, there are a number of people who have access to this board, who would have no other means of discovering this information because they don't know the things about him that you do. And some of those people are not as well-intentioned as you are.

 

I will continue to do my best to remove any and all references to Andro's real information so that the few who might use it inappropriately will not be given an opportunity via this site.

 

Thanks for your understanding,

Ace

[+ Lucky]

Is that "Ace" as in Ace Bannon?

[NY Observer]

I agree completely with Sports.

 

I think, while well-intentioned, that this is way too personal to have been posted. I know that if it were me, I wouldn't want the details of my personal life posted in this manner, would you?

[HooBoy]

Android Kid

 

Had someone bothered to click ALERT, the personal information would have been removed by one of the moderators or me.

 

I am sorry, but I am not here 24 hours a day. Among the moderators and me, one of us is typically online.

 

That aside, my deepest sympathies to "the kid" and his family and may he be in a much better place.

[Guest happyguy]

RE: Android Kid

 

For what it's worth, I had never heard of him and just by coincidence I read the posting before it had been deleted. I must say that by reading certain details in the post, it would have been easy for someone to figure everything out, or even to seek out an on-line version of that town's daily newspaper and get it all. I never even thought to go looking for information, not even trying to find that Muscle site.

 

Nonetheless, though I felt so bad for the loss of such a young life, for his family and friends, I wondered if he really had made many friends in OUR community. Maybe events such as this and the Columbia disaster are challenges to us to work more at being friends with each other.

 

I realize this is idealist, but I feel a bond with anyone in our world - and tell few about it. Anyone else feel the same way?

 

happyguy

[Guest Love Bubble Butt]

So who was this guy that made him so well known? Was he an escort, porn star, professional bodybuilder? Maybe I should know who he is, but I'm not as "connected" into the gay scene as many of you might be. I'm just really curious as to who he is.

[Guest jeffOH]

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[Guest]

>I will continue to do my best to remove any and all references

>to Andro's real information so that the few who might use it

>inappropriately will not be given an opportunity via this

>site.

 

I don't personally care about his real name, but can someone give me an example about how his real name could be "used inappropriately"? I can see how an escort, porn star, or bodybuilder might worry about stalkers or blackmailers if his name were public (although if your picture is online, and you give your address out to strangers for incalls, you're hardly anonymous). However, I see obituaries all the time in San Francisco's Bay Area Reporter which name the real names (and often relatives and/or lovers) of former escorts, porn stars, etc. who've recently passed away... and I can't see how any harm can come of it. The obituaries just become an opportunity for fans to finally get a glimpse into the real person.

What's wrong with knowing that a person you admired grew up in North Dakota and is survived by a lover, sister, and two parents? (Again, I'm not saying this from the point of view of an Androkid fan).

[Guest DevonSFescort]

>I don't personally care about his real name, but can someone

>give me an example about how his real name could be "used

>inappropriately"?

 

I think the concern was that Androkid's family didn't know about the escorting side of his life and weren't familiar with the Muscle Service Station, so his friends didn't want to increase the likelihood of the family inadvertently learning that info or being told it by some not-so-well-wisher.

 

>I see obituaries all the time in San

>Francisco's Bay Area Reporter which name the real names

>(and often relatives and/or lovers) of former escorts, porn

>stars, etc. who've recently passed away... and I can't see how

>any harm can come of it.

 

Maybe not much in a pre-Internet world, but search engines have changed things. A friend of mine keeps an online diary in which he wrote about, among other things, his mother's death, using her real name. Members of his family stumbled across his journal after having done an Internet search on his mom's name, and learned a whole lot of things he wasn't prepared for them to learn at the time. It's not hard to picture a porn star's family learning of their son's career in a similar fashion if the BAR runs the model's real name in his obituary. Of course, the BAR is a newspaper, so you could argue it is their responsibility just to report the news and not to participate in keeping closet doors posthumously closed (does anybody know what the policies typically are on something like this at gay papers?). But I can understand why a site like Muscle Service would want to be more protective of its deceased members and their families.

[Guest Bitchboy]

You're absolutely correct, Devon. Unfortunately, there are anti-gay, anti-porn, anti-escort individuals who do all they can to get personal information on sexworkers and then make their lives miserable. The internet has increased this kind of stuff. It has happened to me (not as a sexworker, but on the periphery), and there was one point where I was concerned for my safety.

 

In this case, Androkid comes from a large family who has no idea of his lifestyle. By providing details to an individual's "real" life, you're leaving his family open to all kinds of unnecessary distruption at a time when they are most vulnerable.

[HooBoy]

If you don't know, it doesn't matter..

 

Move on...

[HooBoy]

If you don't know, it doesn't matter..

 

Move on...

[Guest jeffOH]

Apparently Hooboy thought it inappropriate to post a pic of this guy that had been posted on the Muscle Service site. Why? Well, who knows why. If you want to see what Androkid looks like go to http://www.muscleservice.com

 

 

JEFF

jeff4men@hotmail.com

[Guest Love Bubble Butt]

Oh Gee. That's nice.

 

Just what is the big deal? What on earth could be wrong or offensive about my question?

[Guest Love Bubble Butt]

Jeff,

 

Thanks for the courteous reply. I appreciate it. I'm not as curious as to what he looked like as much as I am about who he was generally (I wasn't asking for private details; it was a very general question). It's obvious he was well known for something. And I'm perplexed at Hooboy's response.

[Guest jeffOH]

LBB

 

There was nothing wrong with your question, nor was there anything wrong with my response. In my deleted post, I said that Androkid was an escort and I posted a picture of him that was one of many posted on other websites. The one I posted was on http://www.muscleservice.com

 

I didn't break any of the rules in that post, so I have no idea why it was deleted.

 

JEFF

jeff4men@hotmail.com

[Guest Love Bubble Butt]

Thanks again! That's all I was curious about.

 

(Hooboy must be in a bad mood about something.)