Horror In Bend, OR: Last Thursday night, Kipp Rusty Walker took the stage during an open mic night at the Strictly Organic Coffee Company in front of 15 people. He played a song accompanied by a keyboard called "Sorry For All The Mess." When the song was over, Walker repeatedly plunged a six-inch blade into his chest before collapsing in a pool of blood on the floor. Audience members mistaking the act as performance art clapped and cheered. Walker was rushed to an area hospital but died shortly afterward. A friend of Walker was quoted as saying, "It was almost like he wanted to prove a point, like there's no point in being scared of death because it's going to happen to us anyway."

• Why on earth?

Absolutely terrible timing: An early member of Electric Light Orchestra, Mike Edwards was known for his formal stage attire and eccentric cello playing, often playing the instrument with an orange or grapefruit. Edwards also played with Roy Wood and Barclay James Harvest in the 1970s. Last September, Edwards was killed while driving along a road in England, when a 1,300 lb cylindrical hay bale struck his van after rolling down a hillside. Farm worker Russell Williams, who had experience at baling hay, left the giant stack unattended after propping it against a fence in a field in Halwell, near Totnes, south Devon.

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