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[ThomThomDrum]

Surprised I have not seen this on the forums.........sorry if there already!

http://www.telegraph...pher-Shale.html

Edited by ThomThomDrum, 28 June 2011 - 10:18 PM.

[sisterofmercy]

Bit of a weird way to go really. Poor guy.

Also, imagine being the person to find him. That would give me nightmares for weeks and cement my aversion to portaloos.

Edited by sisterofmercy, 28 June 2011 - 10:41 PM.

[ThomThomDrum]

Quote here says that ME thinks it to be suicide!

http://www.herald.ie...ry-2806556.html

Glastonbury Festival supremo Michael Eavis described the death as "a suicide situation", although police said it was still too early to say. Other sources suggested it was a heart attack.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Could have Scarfaced himself, but the strain of an enormous No2 can't be ruled out either.

[Twisted Melon]

What a shit way to go

[neilloggie]

Does Cameron have any friends?

[Mardy]

I thought it might have been a traditional Tory stranglew*nk, but surely nobody would do that in a Turdis at Glastonbury, not even the Conservatives are that perverted.

[Spindles]

sisterofmercy, on 28 June 2011 - 10:36 PM, said:

Bit of a weird way to go really. Poor guy.

We don't actually know how he died yet.  If you mean because he died on a toilet it is probably a lot more common than you realise.  If you mean because he died at glastonbury in a hot, stinky box that then housed his body until some poor unfortunate found it nearly a day later then yes, not the best way to be remembered.

Because he was a tory basically anything I say will seem insensitive and in bad taste, so I'll shut up.

[Ed209]

ThomThomDrum, on 28 June 2011 - 10:39 PM, said:

Quote here says that ME thinks it to be suicide!

http://www.herald.ie...ry-2806556.html

Glastonbury Festival supremo Michael Eavis described the death as "a suicide situation", although police said it was still too early to say. Other sources suggested it was a heart attack.

I think Michael Eavis was bang out of order to say that to the press when cause of death hadn't been established. It was wild speculation and really inconsiderate to the family.

[Gnomicide]

Probably forgot to breath through his mouth and was overcome.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Gnomicide, on 28 June 2011 - 10:54 PM, said:

Probably forgot to breath through his mouth and was overcome.

That's right. The person before may have done a Hiroshima dump of biblical proportions.

[neilloggie]

Maybe it will come out that he was wearing a pvc bikini had an orange in his mouth and a pair of tights over his head in typical tory fashion

[sisterofmercy]

Spindles, on 28 June 2011 - 10:45 PM, said:

We don't actually know how he died yet.  If you mean because he died on a toilet it is probably a lot more common than you realise.  If you mean because he died at glastonbury in a hot, stinky box that then housed his body until some poor unfortunate found it nearly a day later then yes, not the best way to be remembered.

Because he was a tory basically anything I say will seem insensitive and in bad taste, so I'll shut up.

Yeah I've heard the stats about the toilet being a common place of death and of course with the size of Glastonbury sadly it seems to happen every year. Still, not exactly the way most would choose to go (i.e. the portaloo and with such publicity about it).

[Couchy]

neilloggie, on 28 June 2011 - 11:00 PM, said:

Maybe it will come out that he was wearing a pvc bikini had an orange in his mouth and a pair of tights over his head in typical tory fashion

Or maybe the poor sod wasn't feeling too good?

I do think I saw someone dressed like this round Shangri La at some point though.

[eFestivals]

Ed209, on 28 June 2011 - 10:45 PM, said:

I think Michael Eavis was bang out of order to say that to the press when cause of death hadn't been established. It was wild speculation and really inconsiderate to the family.

Michael's full quote made clear that the old bill had initially suggested to him that it was suicide - so it wasn't as out of order as you're suggesting.

Perhaps it would have been wise of him to not repeat that, but he's a farmer not a PR guru and often says the wrong thing, and at his festival people are wanting as much info as they can get so he gave it to them.

As I say, maybe that wasn't wise, but I don't think it was as bad as 'out of order'.

[Gnomicide]

sisterofmercy, on 28 June 2011 - 11:25 PM, said:

Yeah I've heard the stats about the toilet being a common place of death and of course with the size of Glastonbury sadly it seems to happen every year. Still, not exactly the way most would choose to go (i.e. the portaloo and with such publicity about it).

If it was good enough for Elvis...

[whisty]

Them VIP toilets are dangerous places

[CATKIN]

Is it only me who thinks it was ironic that he was releasing a report about Tory mps on the take and he was in the VIP area??

[atomicplayboy]

CATKIN, on 29 June 2011 - 08:16 AM, said:

Is it only me who thinks it was ironic that he was releasing a report about Tory mps on the take and he was in the VIP area??

why? do you think if it was a labour mp, gordon brown or harriet harman (famous for walking around her own constituency in a bullet proof vest), they would have been out there with the masses rather than in the VIP area? just coz its a tory its somehow wrong? dont get it....

[CATKIN]

It had nothing to do with him being a Tory it was the irony of the report and the VIP area there will no doubt have been mps from all parties I'n there the same as they will all no doubt have tickets to the best seats at the Olympics