TheBrazilianFly said:
Thanks Merc, you rule!!
Oh, you're welcome! BTW, I want to apologise for any grammar-errors or things like that - had to do it a little bit fast yesterday...
Okay - so I'll continue the story with the article about the woman who caused the incident - here we go:
UNLUCKY: "I've been a Bowie-fan since I was 12 years old. I've seen him live eight times. Standing there and crying as he sang his songs. There's absolutely no artist I tresure more." tells the woman who had the lollipop that hit Bowie.
This is the story about the woman who hit David Bowie with a "Love on a stick" (lollipop). She claims that a hard push from behind caused the incident during the "Norwegian Wodd"-concert friday night.
"I just froze. First everything was totally quiet. I'm serious - you could hear a pin fall to the ground when Bowie bend over and held his hand over his eye. Then people around me got furious. I heard several people shout: 'Who the hell threw that?' Then Bowie started shouting at me and calling me 'fucking asshole' and worse things. I wanted to raise my hand and say 'I did it, but I didn't mean to'. But I didn't dare. I thought I was going to be lynched." the woman told "Dagbladet"
"If I'd said anything I'd been beaten up. So I just stood there, petrified, in the middle of the crowd. I stood like that for half an hour and didn't dare to move."
Her brother stood right next to her, very close to the stage, just 3-4 meters away from David Bowie. The brother felt the same feeling of hate and lynching: "When I saw Bowie bend over, while he held his hand to his eye I thought 'The concert is over now. The guards are comming now and hell is going to break loose'. I've never felt so much intense and strong hate before. People were crazy about finding the offender - it was pure evil. Then the bigbrother inside me woke up. I stood when ready to fight, ready to defend my sister.
The woman and her brother met "Dagbladet" yesterday evening, a day after the drama. The woman is still terrified. She can't eat or sleep and is feeling sick. "Today my son asked me 'Mama, will the police come and arrest you now?'" she tells.
The woman, who is in her 30's, keep seeing the incident for her inner eye all the time.
"Its like a slow-motion film, that repeats itself over and over again. I see the lollipop flying out of my hand and forward, right towards David Bowie. Slowly, slowly - but in reality so fast. Just before the "bullet" hits Bowie turns his head a little bit. That is extreme unluck. I see the stick hitting his eyes"
- What did you think then?
- I felt so guilty. It wnet completely quiet. I felt like everyone around me stepped away and was looking at me. Like I was standing all alone. It was absurd.
- And how was it when Bowie yelled at you from the stage?
- I guess, that was the worst part. I've been a Bowie fan since I was 12 years old. I've seen him live eight times. Standing there and crying as he sang his songs. There's absolutely no artist I tresure more.
- What did actually happen?
- We were dancing to the music. Bowie and finishing song number three. In the pocket of my raincoat I suddenly felt a lollipop. I pulled it up, held it between two fingers while I - like everyone else - raised my hands high to applaud Bowie.
In the same moment I someone is pushing me from behind. I get hit hard on my arm and the lollipop fly out of my hand and directly towards Bowie. Its extremel unluck. I can't understand it. I tell the guards infront of the stage 'I did it, but I didn't ment to do it'. S? the guards knew. And they understood the woman claims.
- And it could have been worse. You could have hit Bowies right eye - his only good eye, the brother says.
- Then I would have ruined his life, the sister admits.
The brother tried to find out who pushed his sister and caused the accident.
- It was a big man. He must have ran away, the brother says.
- An eyewitnes claims that you threw the lolllipop and that you aimed at Bowie. You were supposed to thave said, befor you threw, that the lollipop was a present from your son?
- None of this true. It was a plain unluck. The lollipop was laying in my pocket before the concert. And I didn't threw on purpose.
The brother and sister are so big fans of Bowie that they flew to Bergen (second largest city in Norway) thursday and saw his concert there. then they flew back in time to see him in Oslo.
- It turned out to be a fantastic concert - maybe his best in Norway ever - but I couldn't be that happy about it.
The woman ends the story with telling how ironic fait can be:
- Two or three songs after the accident, Bowie throws his plectre out to the crowd. Then he yells, sarcastic: 'Oops, I hope I didn't hit you in the eye. I guess I have to go and hide behind my five bandmembers now!'
- And guess who raised her hand and grabbed the plectra? the woman asks...