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The character of "Duke" in Garry Trudeau's "Doonesbury" comic strip is based on him. He wounded his assistant Deborah Fuller accidentally with a shotgun whilst trying to scare a bear from his property in Aspen, Colorado, USA. 3 August 2000 - cleared of criminal charges of trying to wound his assistant. [27 July 2000] Along with Don Johnson, wrote the script for the two-hour TV movie "Bridges," a story about an unstable, former alcoholic-drug addict cop who works in L.A. with a diminuitive Latino partner and dates a mafia boss' daughter. Although rejected by NBC, they bought the script and transformed it into the series "Nash Bridges" (1996). Since October 2000, has been penning a weekly column, "Hey Rube", for ESPN.com's Page 2. Graduate of Louisville (Ky.) Male High School, class of 1955. Missed his graduation exercises because he was in jail. He later started calling himself Dr. Thompson, after purchasing a doctorate in Divinity from a church by mail order. Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 133, pp. 410-417. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005. Underground cartoonist turned comics and animation historian Scott Shaw based a recurring character in his works after Thompson: an anthropomorphic dog named "Pointer X. Toxin". Grandson, son of his only child, Juan, was born 1998. Shortly before his death he talked in his ESPN.com column about 'inventing' a new sport: Shotgun Golf. Has a song entitled "Bat Country" written after him by the band Avenged Sevenfold. Johnny Depp, who starred in two movie adaptations of Thompson's books (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (1998) and The Rum Diary (2010) ), helped to fulfill his last wish. Rode a BSA A65 Lightning most notably whilst researching his seminal book Hell's Angels. Towards the end of his period with the Hell's Angels, he wrote that he was beaten up by them. Rode a BSA A65 Lightning most notably whilst researching his seminal book Hell's Angels. Towards the end of his period with the Hell's Angels, he wrote that he was beaten up by them. After covering the 1972 Democratic Convention in Miami for Rolling Stone Magazine, Thompson went for an evening swim in the ocean to clear his head. A light tropical storm blew up, Thompson got caught in a riptide, and he was swept out to sea. He spent the rest of the night fighting to swim back to the beach, finally crawling ashore at 9:00 A.M. At 15 he made an electric go-kart using the engine of a washing machine. With the aid of two friends he robbed a liquor store by starting a fight with the clerks and then cleaning out the cash register in the confusion. Critics have often contended that his writing style noticeably declined after his wife, Sandy, divorced him. When he lived in Big Sur in the early 1960s, he rode his BSA Lightning so much he was known as "The Wild One of Big Sur". When he lived in Big Sur in the early 1960s, his next door neighbor was Joan Baez. One of the most widely quoted lines from tributes and obituaries to him was from one written by Frank Kelly Rich, editor and publisher of Modern Drunkard Magazine: "There was always a powerful comfort in knowing he was out there somewhere in the night, roaring drunk, guzzling high-octane whiskey and railing against a world amok with complacency and hypocrisy." Following Richard Nixon's appearance in New Hampshire during the 1968 campaign, he offered Thompson a lift to the airport on the condition that the two of them talk about nothing but football. Thompson accepted, mostly because he thought Nixon knew nothing about the sport. He discovered that, in fact, Nixon was an avid fan, clear down to which colleges the top players were from!. Was extremely critical of the Bush administration.He once said that "if Nixon were running, I would happily vote for him instead".