Grave marker for Peter Nicol
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Peter Nicol, or as most of you would know him better on Twitter: Hapless Pete (@haplesspete) has sadly passed away on 18th February after complications during a hospital surgery.
With this campaign we are trying to raise the money needed to give Peter’s final resting place a grave marker. This is the sad story behind this situation:
We all knew Hapless Pete as a highly witty and active advocate for a round earth. (Incredible that this can be a thing in this day and age.) He always promoted reason and science and made a lot of us aware of the many people out there believing in things like a flat earth, chemtrails, eternal damnation, and that science is the devil.
The reason Peter could do all of this and be a constant beacon for reason in our virtual social world was because, despite being a trained and capable draftsman (he once helped build a to scale V2 rocket), he hadn’t been able to find work for quite some time. This meant that he lived in a friend’s house and struggled to pay for the necessities of life. He also doesn’t have any relatives that could have supported him then or now.
A few days ago he received a pauper’s burial in an unmarked grave in his hometown Ballarat, in Victoria/Australia.
Some of us from Melbourne knew Pete personally, he was a nice and caring guy, but in real life also quite shy and modest. He never asked for much, but we feel that it is only right to ask for a little bit of help and support on his behalf (please spread the word) towards our goal to make sure he gets a decent resting place.
The money raised with this campaign will go directly to the company creating and installing the marker for Pete. Once put in place we will update with a picture from the site.
UPDATE: You fabulous crowd have reached the original goal of $1,500 in a few hours. Allow us to raise the bar a bit, there's more good we can do for Pete and on his behalf. Thank you all so much!
With this campaign we are trying to raise the money needed to give Peter’s final resting place a grave marker. This is the sad story behind this situation:
We all knew Hapless Pete as a highly witty and active advocate for a round earth. (Incredible that this can be a thing in this day and age.) He always promoted reason and science and made a lot of us aware of the many people out there believing in things like a flat earth, chemtrails, eternal damnation, and that science is the devil.
The reason Peter could do all of this and be a constant beacon for reason in our virtual social world was because, despite being a trained and capable draftsman (he once helped build a to scale V2 rocket), he hadn’t been able to find work for quite some time. This meant that he lived in a friend’s house and struggled to pay for the necessities of life. He also doesn’t have any relatives that could have supported him then or now.
A few days ago he received a pauper’s burial in an unmarked grave in his hometown Ballarat, in Victoria/Australia.
Some of us from Melbourne knew Pete personally, he was a nice and caring guy, but in real life also quite shy and modest. He never asked for much, but we feel that it is only right to ask for a little bit of help and support on his behalf (please spread the word) towards our goal to make sure he gets a decent resting place.
The money raised with this campaign will go directly to the company creating and installing the marker for Pete. Once put in place we will update with a picture from the site.
UPDATE: You fabulous crowd have reached the original goal of $1,500 in a few hours. Allow us to raise the bar a bit, there's more good we can do for Pete and on his behalf. Thank you all so much!
Organizer
Jens Hartmann
Organizer
Lucas VIC
