Hunter wants to go out with a bang
Hunter S Thompson, the “gonzo journalist” with a penchant for drugs, guns and flame-thrower prose, might have one more salvo in store for everyone: friends and relatives want to blast his ashes out of a cannon, just as he wished.
“If that’s what he wanted, we’ll see if we can pull it off,” said historian Douglas Brinkley, a friend of Thompson’s and now the family’s spokesman.
