Who pelted Toots Hibbert with that vodka bottle in Virginia over the weekend?

[malaise]

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/toots-hibbert-injured-by-bottle-thrown-during-concert-20130519
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The lead singer of Toots and the Maytals was injured on Saturday night by a bottle thrown at the stage during a concert in Virginia. The Richmond Times-Dispatch reports that Frederick "Toots" Hibbert was struck in the forehead and treated at a hospital for the resulting cut.

Toots and the Maytals were performing at the Dominion Riverrock Outdoor Sports and Music Festival when a glass vodka bottle was launched from the crowd. The reggae veterans' set was brought to an early end, and a 19-year-old man has been arrested and charged with aggravated assault and public intoxication, according to Richmond police. An executive with Venture Richmond, the company that produces the three-day festival, said that the bottle used appears to have been stolen from the venue's bar area.

Another festival manager said that 67-year-old Hibbert remained in good spirits after leaving the hospital that night. "He was lucid. He was laughing. He was tired obviously. He had had a very long day," Venture Richmond's Stephen Lecky said. "He was one of the nicest men I ever met."
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[hobbit709]

1. WTF? did this idiot think he was at a bad C&W concert or something.

I'm glad Toots is OK.
and I wouldn't be drinking at a reggae show in the first place.

[Mopar151]

4. I'm thinking that the fool

Somehow beleived that he was at a family reunion, and acted accordingly.

I'm reminded of a line about why a particular subgroup of car culture will not be getting a return invite to a huge fairground venue:
"They want to drink, and then they want to fight, but they ain't no good at either one!"

[zerosumgame0005]

10. well there is a good reason booze is legal and pot isn't

um, gimme a minute

one more sec....

uh, MONEY! yeah, that's the ticket!

[shenmue]

2. Not good!

Not cool to do.

[Starry Messenger]

3. A serious dipshit psycho

I'm glad Toots is OK, but that could have killed him. X(

[Octafish]

5. Anyone who ever heard 'Pressure Drop' knows Toots is someone special.

Call him genius or Buddha, both are correct.

[malaise]

7. Your favorite and my favorite

Pressure Drop

My favorite -54-46 was my Number

[byeya]

13. Sailin On, Sweet and Dandy, Pomps and Pride

[Octafish]

15. I live 54-46.

Toots' voice....Careless Ethiopians and Beautiful Woman and Monkey Man...It is difficult to believe anyone, even a drunk punk, would find cause to hurt the man.



I say yeah.

[dembotoz]

6. i have seen bar scenes in movies where the band played behing a chain link fence

now I better understand why

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. "Chicken wire???"

"Those lights are off on purpose, man"

[panader0]

8. "Pressure Drop"

That's what will happen to that drunk idiot who threw the bottle.

[byeya]

11. I bought the Maytals first two albums directly from Jamaica when they were ska. The Maytals first

used the term raggae when they released the single Do The Reggay.
Been fans of theirs for a long time.
(If you like ska, Never Grow Old is a classic)

[malaise]

14. Wow - you'r a genuine Toots fan

Never Grow Old is a Classic

[hobbit709]

16. Here ya go malaise

[malaise]

17. Wicked

[G_j]

12. Yikes, that's awful!

I love Toots, he always seemed like such a sweet guy. He was the first Reggae artist I saw live back in the eighties, and the experience opened new doorways in music for me.
I'm glad he's ok!