It is intresting how this twisted tale is portrayed. Eddie jumps from a parachute and lands in Goa and shows the world Goan humanity. But no, Eddie was probably a guniea pig for the neo colonials who wanted to bloster their miserable Foreign funds. Eddie was the beginning for Goa's disaster that has landed our motherland into drugs and crime affecting thousands of lives around the world. BC OBITUARY The hippie who got Goa the globe Dielle D'souza | November 27, 2010
"I was never a hippie, " he said at the end of his life of 85 years, much of which was spent freewheeling in Anjuna wearing loose-fitting, colourful clothes, and hanging out at the flea market he started while listening to the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan. Instead, Eight-Finger Eddie described himself as "the first freak in Goa", arriving in 1966 never to leave again.
