Posts Tagged ‘AC/DC’
Seeing AC/DC in Australia is dangerous
First it was a quadriplegic falling off a platform and getting his eye impaled, leaving him blind. Now, it’s a fan getting “glassed in the neck.”
Holy cow, seeing AC/DC perform in Australia is a death wish.
The latest report comes from Perth, where a 39 year old man wanted to attend an AC/DC show with his friends but couldn’t afford the tickets. So he did what any reasonable person would do in that situation; he parked his van outside the club, cranked his favorite AC/DC tunes, and started getting shit-faced.
Around 1 AM, a group of people who knew the men approached. Somehow a fight broke out. Who knows, maybe some heated words were exchanged. Maybe one guy thought Brian Johnson is better than Bon Scott. Maybe they were arguing whether “High Voltage” is better than “Jailbreak.” The point is, this whole fracas ended with the van-guy getting stabbed in the neck with a broken bottle. He was taken to the hospital where his injuries were described as serious (duh).
So all you Aussie AC/DC fans, you might consider wearing some kind of armor to their next show.
-Sam
Here’s a story to file under WTF.
A 31 year old quadriplegic man got impaled at an AC/DC concert in Brisbane this weekend. Yes, you read that right – impaled.
Here’s how it apparently went down.
The disabled guy was a former truck driver who was paralyzed after an accident and now had to use a motorized wheelchair. The concert venue had a special wheelchair podium on the side of the floor where the man was seated along with his friend. But at some point during AC/DC’s set, the man’s friend was dancing, and in the course of his gyrations he hit the wheelchair’s control joystick which “catapulted him into the moshpit.”
And then:
Witnesses said a metal pin used by the 31-year-old Morningside man to manoeuvre objects became a spear and imbedded in his eye as his chair crashed more than a metre to the centre’s floor.
That hurts just thinking about it.
The man is now out of intensive care but is still in serious yet stable condition.
Rightfully so, the venue is getting a lot of heat for their lack of safety measures in place to prevent something like this happening. Just look at the wheelchair podium (pictured). There’s absolutely nothing (other than a board and some red tape) acting as a barrier between the podium and the crowd. Did the venue think a wheelchair is like a Matchbox car and will get turned aside so easily by a board? Mixing big, heavy machines on wheels with people dancing crazily on a raised platform above hundreds of other people with no barrier preventing the chair from rolling off just seems negligent.
Hopefully this guy can retain his eyesight and get back to rocking out soon.
-Sam