# Electric Light Orchestra Cellist Killed by Bale of Hay

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-light-orchestra-cellist-killed-by-bale-of-hay/552752>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [September 6, 2010, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-light-orchestra-cellist-killed-by-bale-of-hay/552752 "2010-09-06T02:32:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![The\_Scrivener](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/eada6e/32.png) [@The\_Scrivener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Scrivener)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-light-orchestra-cellist-killed-by-bale-of-hay/552752/21 "2010-09-06T15:08:44Z")

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You’d think the Grim Reaper would make more frequent use of the “giant out-of-control rolling bale of hay of death,” but he prefers to think out-of-the-box.

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**Author:** ![Chanteuse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9de053/32.png) [@Chanteuse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chanteuse)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-light-orchestra-cellist-killed-by-bale-of-hay/552752/22 "2010-09-06T15:33:36Z")

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Oh, man, I hate to hear this–I just love ELO.

This really brings me down. ☹

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**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-light-orchestra-cellist-killed-by-bale-of-hay/552752/23 "2010-09-06T15:58:04Z")

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ELO’s first recording contract was with. . . Harvest.

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**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-light-orchestra-cellist-killed-by-bale-of-hay/552752/24 "2010-09-06T16:41:20Z")

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> [@Chanteuse](#):
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> Oh, man, I hate to hear this–I just love ELO.
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> This really brings me down. ☹

I see what you did there.

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**Author:** ![Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e68b1a/32.png) [@Abby\_Emma\_Sasha](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Abby_Emma_Sasha)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2010, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/electric-light-orchestra-cellist-killed-by-bale-of-hay/552752/25 "2010-09-06T16:42:03Z")

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Coulda been worse, he could have been fried by a stray telephone line.  
Yep, i’ll be on the bus to hell.

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