Founding member of ELO killed in freak accident as giant runaway hay bale smashes into his van

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Daily Mail

A founding member of ELO has been killed following a freak accident involving a giant bale of hay.

Mike Edwards, 62, who played cello for the band for three years, died when the giant bale weighing 50 stone crashed down on top of his van.

Mr Edwards died instantly in the accident after the bale careered down the hill, and flipped over a hedge. . .

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1309256/Electric-Light-Orchestra-founding-member-Mike-Edwards-killed-50-stone-hay-bale-freak-accident.html

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Bummer, to say the least.

[TheMightyFavog]

1. Lucky Man was ELP, not ELO

[Faygo Kid]

3. Fixed, thanks.

Creeping senility is also a bummer.

[LiberalAndProud]

2. Abolish round bales.

Remember when hay bales were rectangular cubes that could be hoisted by brute force? I'll bet those never killed anybody.

Sad freak accident.

[Downwinder]

5. I'll bet you could finds instances.

Kids used to build forts inside stacks of square bales. From experience they were always caving in.

[LiberalAndProud]

9. Hay bale forts were the funnest!

And hide and seek in the how mow was great too. Nostalgic for my childhood.

:-(

[backwoodsbob]

11. Abolish round bails?

because of ONE accident?

You have never farmed if you want to abolish round bails

[jobycom]

20. Round hay bales don't kill people, hills kill people.

This would have never happened in New Orleans.

[pipi_k]

34. Exactly...if you're driving up a hill, stay FAR back....

even if there's nothing visible on the vehicle in front.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Fuck,. fuck , fuck.

How tragic.

[Botany]

6. Roll Over Hay Bale (Beethoven)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLNR4xfh1Qc&feature=related

[onethatcares]

7. wow, what a way to go

goes to show, you never know when your turn in the donut hole is coming up.

Tell the folks you love that you do every chance you get.

You never know what's around the next corner.

Peace

[Trajan]

8. For the stone-impaired ...

50 Stone X 14 pounds = 700 pounds (Or maybe just too stoned ...)

How interesting though; Trajan just two days ago walked through a Fry's Electronics and stopped to sit and watch an ELO concert on a big screen display, recorded sometime in the late 70's at Wembley Stadium ... It had been years since I have seen or heard any ELO performances ... I enjoyed it immensely ...

This sucks in many ways .... RIP Sir ...

[Recovered Repug]

26. I thought the Brits were on the metric system. Guess not. nt/

[WinkyDink]

31. Nope. Miles, inches, etc.

[DeschutesRiver]

33. Our round bales at one time were 1400 pounds, big suckers

Round bales are popular out here, but not as much - now usually 700-1000 pound square bales are the most easily available, in our case for feeding our cows.

What was nice about them is that because of the round shape (and smaller surface compared to a large flat square bale), rain would more likely run off them than find its way inside. With the squares, we needed something to cover them in the field because they don't shed rain as well; the rain sits on top and finds its way down through the bale and makes them moldy in time. Tarps are expensive and the wind tears at them and rearranges the tarp, and building a hay shed with just a roof means time and money. That said, dh found some scrap materials here and build a lean-to onto his machine shop for the big squares last year.

But yeah, you wouldn't want to be near one of these 1400# suckers if it was free rolling down a hill.

[localroger]

10. accrochez-toi a ton balle. /nt

[Yeahyeah]

12. Kind of a Monty Pythonish way to go.

[BrklynLiberal]

13. wow! Talk about wrong place, wrong time...really sad.

[northernlights]

14. very very sad, but at the same time

I feel like I landed in the middle of the Mary Tyler Moore show when Chuckles the Clown was dressed as a somebody Peanut and was crushed to death by an elephant at the circus. And Murray said, "Good thing he wasn't dressed as Billy Banana or he might've been peeled to death."

Rolled over by a runaway roundbale. What a headline...

RIP and godspeed.

[MilesColtrane]

15. He died in a bizarre farming accident?

A true rock 'n roll way to go, in the Spinal Tap sense.

Thanks for the music Mr. Edwards.

[Yeahyeah]

16. Maybe humans could have been satisfied with reasonably sized rectangular hay bales.

But no.We have to have the giant rolling killer hay bales.Sons of bastards!

[daleo]

17. A roll in the hay can kill you

He joins the club of odd ends.

http://www.neatorama.com/2007/03/12/30-strangest-deaths-in-history/

In 1999, Betty Stobbs, 67, of Durham, England, took a bale of hay to feed her flock of sheep on the back of her motorcycle.

Apparently, the sheep were very hungry. About forty of them rushed the hay and knocked her off a cliff into a 100-feet deep quarry. Stobbs survived the fall only to be killed when the motorcycle, which was also knocked off the cliff, tumbled down after her.

[Yeahyeah]

19. They should change the name of hay.Someone could be trying to warn

you about an incoming giant hay bale,but you'll think that they're just saying hey.

[Faygo Kid]

21. Roll, roll, roll in the hay. I would have so enjoyed that with Teri Garr.

In fact, I would enjoy it still. Call me, Teri.

[davidinalameda]

18. insert Xanadu comment here

[NBachers]

22. "It's a long time to be gone . . . Time just rolls on and on"

Hold on Tight to Your Dreams- I listen, and it invigorates me for this election- let's keep pushin'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKQsv1Q3ZNY

[IndianaGreen]

23. RIP

RIP Mike, Deva Pramada

[proud2BlibKansan]

24. OMG how sad

[ZenKitty]

25. The lame ass attempts at humor in this thread..

:(

[Systematic Chaos]

28. I love ELO, but even if I hated them I would be pissed about some of these comments.

So, is it cool for us to make similar quips if they post in grief about the untimely death of one of their loved ones?

:shrug:

[Xithras]

36. Ummm...yeah

Because the family members of a famous British musician are going to visit an American partisan political board looking for condolences. The odds that they've even heard of DU are next to zero. The odds that they visit are even smaller.

[Systematic Chaos]

37. It's not who's going to come here and visit the board or anything like that.

It's the sentiments in and of themselves.

But whatever.

[Botany]

30. you are right a lot of them are just straw man arguments

Thanx I'll be here all week ... try the veal.

[flvegan]

27. So many shameful responses in this thread.

My condolences to his loved ones.

[Gold Metal Flake]

32. +1

RIP

[calimary]

29. Aw damn. I LOVED ELO!

Sorry to hear this.

LOVED ELO! That was one of my favorite bands all through college.

[pintobean]

35. Out of the blue

[Scurrilous]

38. Whoa...

:kick: