# Another bizarre gardening accident **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 8, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437 "2020-05-08T21:13:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/1 "2020-05-08T21:13:48Z")
No word on if he will join Spinal Tap > **[Brian May hospitalized after injuring buttocks in 'over-enthusiastic'...](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/entertainment/brian-may-gardening-injury-scli-intl-gbr/index.html)** > > Queen guitarist Brian May has revealed he ended up in hospital after injuring his buttocks during an incident in his garden. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/2 "2020-05-08T21:19:43Z")
> [@Bijou\_Drains](#): > > No word on if he will join Spinal Tap > > [https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/entertainment/brian-may-gardening-injury-scli-intl-gbr/index.html](https://www.cnn.com/2020/05/08/entertainment/brian-may-gardening-injury-scli-intl-gbr/index.html) Gardening accident, my ass! I wonder which tool was involved. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/3 "2020-05-08T21:25:39Z")
At least he didn’t choke on someone else’s vomit. ---
**Author:** ![74westy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/74westy/32/3950_2.png) [@74westy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/74westy)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/4 "2020-05-08T21:40:57Z")
Mama, just stabbed my ass… ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/5 "2020-05-08T21:45:42Z")
A little frightening. When I saw Brian May’s name in the article, my mind jumped [ABBA’s drummer dying in horrifying garden accident.](https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/abba-drummer-dies-after-falling-into-villas-glass-door-797139.html) ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/6 "2020-05-08T22:27:36Z")
“Honey, call EMTs I think I broke my butt!” ---
**Author:** ![WildaBeast](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wildabeast/32/6_2.png) [@WildaBeast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WildaBeast)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/7 "2020-05-08T22:36:14Z")
“It was a one in a million shot, Doc!” ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/8 "2020-05-08T22:36:17Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 11:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/9 "2020-05-08T23:17:40Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > 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](https://media.bahag.com/assets/resp_product/15/10/1510366_22853069.jpg) and then [there are rakes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/SoilRake.jpg/800px-SoilRake.jpg)! ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/10 "2020-05-08T23:25:22Z")
> [@Broomstick](#): > > 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? Do you really want to know? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 8, 2020, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/11 "2020-05-08T23:42:30Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > I had almost the same incident in mind when I heard about that. But there [are rakes](https://media.bahag.com/assets/resp_product/15/10/1510366_22853069.jpg) and then [there are rakes](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b3/SoilRake.jpg/800px-SoilRake.jpg)! Something else comes to my dirty mind when I hear the word “rake.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/12 "2020-05-09T02:58:43Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Something else comes to my dirty mind when I hear the word “rake.” Ken Jennings - “What is a hoe?” ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 3:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/13 "2020-05-09T03:02:26Z")
My first thought is that his roses are even more vicious than mine. Actually that was also my second thought. See my sig. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 3:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/14 "2020-05-09T03:06:26Z")
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.) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2020, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/15 "2020-05-09T07:00:20Z")
> [@cochrane](#): > > Ken Jennings - “What is a hoe?” In this case (“An immoral pleasure seeker”), it’s spelled “ho.” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [May 10, 2020, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/16 "2020-05-10T22:08:29Z")
Let’s see - we just had [World Naked Gardening Day](http://wideopenspaces.com/world-naked-gardening-day-may-7th/).\* Perhaps Brian was out frolicking around, saw what he thought were [nice fuzzy leaves](https://www.dreamstime.com/naranjilla-solanum-quitoense-called-lulo-also-naranjilla-plant-leaf-spines-image110329364) 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. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/17 "2020-05-11T16:12:24Z")
I agree falling on a rake is the most likely thing. Or falling on some other tool like shears or an ax. ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/18 "2020-05-11T16:23:07Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/19 "2020-05-11T16:35:41Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [May 11, 2020, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437/20 "2020-05-11T18:21:46Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > In this case (“An immoral pleasure seeker”), it’s spelled “ho.” That’s, at best, a definition of the clients. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-bizarre-gardening-accident/853437.md?page=2)