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SATURDAY FEBRUARY 25 2006 11:00 AM

Submitted by Dr_Frank. Edited By Dr_Frank.

The Sun reports on a genuine rock and roll hero and sacrificial lamb:

A TEENAGER bounced off his bed and out of a third-floor window to his death during a wild impression of a rock guitarist.

Excited Li Xiao Meng was jumping around with his guitar in the bedroom of a Singapore students' hostel when he made the fatal mistake.

The 16-year-old business student, from China, was "hyped up with exhilaration" when he rebounded off the bed and out of the window, coroner Tan Boon Heng told the Straits Times newspaper.

�He was jumping up and down on the bed placed against an open window while imitating a rock guitarist,� Mr Tan said.

The article doesn't specify which song Li Xiao Meng was airguitaring to. Whatever it was, I join Music Thing in their virtual salute. (There's a complaint in the Music Thing comments about whether it's appropriate or tasteful to joke about such a tragic event. Maybe so, maybe not, but I don't think they're joking about calling this guy a hero. And I'd be happy enough to go that way myself when the time comes.)

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J24U

Danvers, MA

February 2006

FEB 25, 2006 11:14 AM

I thought at first that this thread was about the video game Guitar Hero...which is tres addictive...and amusing when drunk as well....

MotherSuperior

Falfurrias, TX

March 2004

FEB 25, 2006 11:17 AM

I know this guy who was airguitaring and jumped up and hit his head on somthing and knocked himeself out. On top of that he had to get 15 stitiches on his head after that. He said that the injury and the scar was worth it. and i agree. we all gotta go somtime so why not die whilst rocking out? In my opinion: that's a pretty good death.

Cassiel

Aurora, CO

September 2004

FEB 25, 2006 11:29 AM

hope i die before i get old...

DrTchock

Montreal, QC

October 2005

FEB 25, 2006 11:33 AM

Further proof that rock & roll is the Devil's music...

That's such a hardcore way to go. It never even occured to me. I like to think that as he realized his fatal mistake, he said "fuck it" and kept playing.

Subrosa

San Francisco, CA

July 2004

FEB 25, 2006 11:35 AM

Fuck me, that's perfect.

Mooncalf2

Longview, WA

February 2005

FEB 25, 2006 11:46 AM

Definately a way to go....I hope I go out as good!!

MessyJessy

Fort Myers, FL

August 2005

FEB 25, 2006 11:50 AM

Wow...I thought choking to death on your own drug and alcohol induced vomit was a rock star's way out...what a way to go.

AnimalMother

Palo Alto, CA

January 2006

FEB 25, 2006 11:58 AM

godspeed young rebel. live fast, die young.

umanam

San Francisco, CA

October 2005

FEB 25, 2006 12:01 PM

he must have been practicing for the 8th annual artists for oppression benefit tour

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/39116

umanam

San Francisco, CA

October 2005

FEB 25, 2006 12:03 PM

fucking darwin

alpha_hazard

Fort Collins, CO

April 2004

FEB 25, 2006 12:24 PM

For those about to rock...(or, more appropriately, for those who have rocked just a little to hard)

daniofthedead

Philadelphia, PA

June 2004

FEB 25, 2006 12:35 PM

i thought it was for the video game too

_DictionaryGirl_

NEWSWIRE

San Diego, CA

FEB 25, 2006 12:42 PM

I salute him.

umanam

San Francisco, CA

October 2005

FEB 25, 2006 12:57 PM

oh shit he was only 16, I didn't notice that, wow I'm an asshole

TearItDown

United Kingdom

August 2005

FEB 25, 2006 01:00 PM

I'm betting he now wishes he listened to ambient music... or maybe shut windows.

Poor bugger. I don't want to go and I certainly wouldn't have wanted to die when I was sixteen!

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