(The
late) John Pernicky and his friend, (the late) Sal Hawkins, of the great state
of Washington, decided to attend a local Metallica concert at the George
Washington amphitheatre. Having no tickets (but having had 18 beers between
them), they thought it would be easy to "hop" over the nine foot fence
and sneak into the show.
They
pulled their pickup truck over to the fence and the plan was for Mr. Pernicky,
who was 100-pounds heavier than Mr. Hawkins) to hop the fence and then assist
his friend over. Unfortunately for (the late) Mr. Pernicky, there was a 30-foot
drop on the other side of the fence.
Having
heaved himself over, he found himself crashing through a tree. His fall was
abruptly halted (and broken, along with his arm) by a large branch that snagged
him by his shorts. Dangling from the tree with a broken arm, he looked down and
saw some bushes below him. Possibly figuring the bushes would break his fall, he
removed his pocket knife and proceeded to cut away his shorts to free himself
from the tree.
Finally
free, Mr. Pernicky crashed into holly bushes. The sharp leaves scratched his
ENTIRE body and now, without the protection of his shorts, a holly branch
penetrated his rectum.
To
make matters worse, on landing, his pocket knife penetrated his thigh. Mr.
Hawkins, seeing his friend in considerable pain and agony, threw him a rope and
pull him to safety by tying the rope to the pickup truck and slowly driving
away. However, in his drunken haste/state, he put the truck into reverse and
crashed through the fence landing on his friend and killing him.
Police
arrived to find the crashed pickup with its driver thrown 100 feet from the
truck and dead at the scene from massive internal injuries. Upon moving the
truck, they found John under it half-naked, scratches on his body, a holly stick
in his rectum, a knife in his thigh, and his shorts dangling from a tree branch
25-feet in the air.