No word on if he will join Spinal Tap
Gardening accident, my ass! I wonder which tool was involved. :dubious:
At least he didn’t choke on someone else’s vomit.
Mama, just stabbed my ass…
A little frightening. When I saw Brian May’s name in the article, my mind jumped ABBA’s drummer dying in horrifying garden accident.
“Honey, call EMTs I think I broke my butt!”
“It was a one in a million shot, Doc!”
WTF, Dr. May - you’re a freakin’ astrophysicist, not a random average idiot! How on earth did you…? >sigh<
I’m guessing he slipped and sat down on a rake that was lying tines up - anyone else have a guess at this?
I had almost the same incident in mind when I heard about that. But there are rakes and then there are rakes!
Do you really want to know?
Something else comes to my dirty mind when I hear the word “rake.”
Ken Jennings - “What is a hoe?”
My first thought is that his roses are even more vicious than mine. Actually that was also my second thought. See my sig.
It sounds to me like he pulled a muscle. After all, he is 72 years old, not as young as he used to be. :o
Toto’s drummer, Jeff Porcaro, was initially thought to have died from insecticide poisoning, and that may have precipitated his death, but he also had heart damage from cocaine use.
R.E.M.'s drummer emeritus, Bill Berry, was bitten by a tick while doing yard work at his home in the late 1980s, and later fell ill with Rocky Mountain spotted fever, a disease that might have killed him had one of his doctors not seen a case before. (Several years later, I found this out shortly after being assigned to do a case presentation on someone who had a history of RMSF, and that’s when I knew I was more than ready to graduate, and this was with two years left to go.)
In this case (“An immoral pleasure seeker”), it’s spelled “ho.” 
Let’s see - we just had World Naked Gardening Day.* Perhaps Brian was out frolicking around, saw what he thought were nice fuzzy leaves that’d make great toilet paper during the current shortage, and…
:eek:
*given the typical attributes of enthusiastic gardeners, we can only pray this never catches on.
I agree falling on a rake is the most likely thing. Or falling on some other tool like shears or an ax.
In a garden, what could literally “tear your ass to shreds”? Maybe he turned the lawnmower over while it was running and then sat on it?
I have read in the meantime hat he ruptured his gluteus maximus. He could have made a wrong movement and/or stumbled in an unfortunate manner. I can see that this would be very painful.
That’s, at best, a definition of the clients.