the HBH? (hay bale hit-taker)

...that was very amusing! :-)

One feels guilty making light of it, but you have to go sometime - might as well be a 'bizarre gardening accident' or something similar like this. One would add the caveat of feeling sorry for his family - but it seems he didn't have any. At least this way he has some kind of minor immortality - as 'the hay bale guy'. After all, let's be frank, no one had heard of him for 35 years, and I'd never heard of him at all. To be known for something, even as bizarre as being squashed by a hay bale, might be viewed as some kind of payoff for half a lifetime of obscurity, having left (or was he removed?) a business primarily noted for people in it being driven by the quest for fame.

Of course, if he left ELO because he found he just didn't want any notoreity after all, then its a cruel blow to be granted this faintly ridiculous fame against your will after all this time of enjoying obscurity.

But life's pretty much a bummer, isn't it?