Hazards

[L. Davidson Lamoreaux]

Dennis Johnson posted the following :

>Perhaps some of you may have heard this tragic news report that has been
>around for over a month now:

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>       ** MAN SLIDES HIS TROMBONE & KILLS MUSICIAN IN FRONT OF HIM! **
>
>>By Randy Jeffries/Weekly World News (January 23, 1996)
>
>Bocholt, Germany -- A band musician died of a brain injury when the
>trombonist behind him jerked the slide of his trombone forward and struck
>the trumpeter in the back of the head!
>
>snip<  (No need to post the rest of the story)


I sent the story to a friend who sent the following reply which I thought
sufficiently funny to let the rest of you enjoy.  David Lamoreaux

>David,

>Don't believe everything you read, on the internet or anywhere else.

>I was there: it was the WWII bayonet mounted on the trombone that killed >that
guy.

>If they had been using one of my patented Cyberfoam Trombone Slide Bumpers
>like I suggested, no harm would have come to anybody!

>Curt