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When things on stage get a little out of hand…

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Today we thought we would entertain you with a one of the more crazy concert moments. Ozzy Osborne was a wild one. Like all great Rockers of his time, his drug use and drinking habits are legendry, and many are impressed he survived at all. But survive he did. Those who don’t recognize him for his musical accomplishments, which are considerable, generally know him as a hard rocking devil worshiping bat decapitating madman. And this label is not entirely unjustified. During his 1981 tour “Night of the living dead”, he would regularly pelt his audience with pig intestines and calves liver (nice!), and encouraged that this behaviour was quite legitimate, fans started responding by bringing meat, and then dead animals, to throw back. In what seems to be a natural escalation of events, one rocker decided to throw a live bat on stage. Stunned by the lights (and presumably the deafening noise) the bat looked to Ozzy “like a rubber toy”. This is what happened:

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