# Ozzy Osbourne seriously injured in accident **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 9, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929 "2003-12-09T15:16:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Annie-Xmas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ecc23a/32.png) [@Annie-Xmas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Annie-Xmas)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/1 "2003-12-09T15:16:30Z")
[http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/09/osbourne.accident/index.html](http://www.cnn.com/2003/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/09/osbourne.accident/index.html) ---
**Author:** ![CaptBushido](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/a88e4f/32.png) [@CaptBushido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptBushido)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/2 "2003-12-09T15:25:41Z")
Well… He’s not the Iron Man, you know… ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/3 "2003-12-09T15:27:23Z")
I heard on the news this lunchtime that he was walking around in his room chatting to the nurses. I think he’ll mend. ---
**Author:** ![vanilla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/f19dbf/32.png) [@vanilla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vanilla)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 3:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/4 "2003-12-09T15:30:27Z")
Ozzy was stable? Thats a first! ---
**Author:** ![jk1245](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/49beb7/32.png) [@jk1245](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jk1245)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/5 "2003-12-09T16:11:26Z")
I guessing he didn’t feel much of anything. One of the many benefits of being pretty much permanently anesthetized. ---
**Author:** ![Lucki\_Chaarms](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de0a6/32.png) [@Lucki\_Chaarms](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lucki_Chaarms)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/6 "2003-12-09T16:19:38Z")
Phew. Now that he’s OK I get to giggle like a little schoolgirl at the image I have of Ozzy roaring around on an ATV… “Whoaaaahh! Ha! Oh, bloody… SHAAARON! Ohthatsguttit… Whaaaa!! etc.” LC ---
**Author:** ![Duke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e8c25b/32.png) [@Duke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duke)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 4:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/7 "2003-12-09T16:25:20Z")
Ozzy: “Ere, doctor, will I bloody well be able to sing then after this?” Doctor: “Why, certainly Mr. Osbourne.” Ozzy: “Bloody hell, that’s a relief, coz I never was bloody well able to before.” ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/8 "2003-12-09T17:53:44Z")
> [@](#): > > In an article in Sunday’s Los Angeles Times, the former lead singer of Black Sabbath said his unusual behavior on “The Osbournes” was the result of a 42-pill-a-day regimen prescribed by his Beverly Hills doctor, which included anti-psychotic drugs and tranquilizers. > > Osbourne said he has since fired his physician. Did anybody notice this line? 42 pills a day?!? Jeez, no wonder he was acting so strange. How can this possibly be a good idea? ---
**Author:** ![Indygrrl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/58f4c7/32.png) [@Indygrrl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indygrrl)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/9 "2003-12-09T19:54:07Z")
I think it’s odd that Ozzy would claim to be oblivious to the negative effects of taking so much medication. I’ll bet he paid that doctor a lot of money to prescribe him that stuff. Now he’ll get a hefty script of pain meds for this accident. What a mess. ---
**Author:** ![everton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ecb155/32.png) [@everton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/everton)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/10 "2003-12-09T19:54:37Z")
Turns out the report I heard earlier was wrong. He couldn’t have been walking around and talking because he has a tube down his throat to help him breathe. The injuries are pretty nasty, but [his doctors have descibed them as “not a major problem”](http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/showbiz/3302405.stm), so he should still be OK. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/11 "2003-12-09T20:00:32Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by brujo \* > \*\*Did anybody notice this line? 42 pills a day?!? > Jeez, no wonder he was acting so strange. How can this possibly be a good idea? \*\* Next thing you know, he’ll be shooting TVs. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/12 "2003-12-09T22:57:25Z")
I didn’t know that Dr. Nick was still practicing. ---
**Author:** ![beajerry](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@beajerry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/beajerry)\ **Post date:** [December 9, 2003, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/13 "2003-12-09T23:11:35Z")
I love Ozzy, but he’s full of shit if he thinks people will believe that a doctor told him to take all those pills. The bugger is an addict! ---
**Author:** ![Caffeine.addict](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@Caffeine.addict](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caffeine.addict)\ **Post date:** [December 10, 2003, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/14 "2003-12-10T00:25:53Z")
I don’t about the addict part. If you want to get get high, could’nt you find something that you don’t need to take 42 pills for. Granted that he doesn’t have to take them all at once, but wouldn’t that just get tiresome. Even if I was a superjunky I wouldn’t want more than 10 pills a day. 42 is just not efficient. ---
**Author:** ![Eve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Eve](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eve)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ozzy-osbourne-seriously-injured-in-accident/217929/15 "2003-12-12T17:11:13Z")
" . . . He has been on a ventilator in intensive care at Wexham Park Hospital in Slough, west of London. Hospital medical director Dr. Dick Jack has said he expects the 55-year-old star to make a steady recovery . . ." “Dr. _Dick Jack_?” [snort . . .]