Bye bye Mr Blue Sky

Giant hay bale kills ELO founder.

I kid you not, this is a headline into today's Irish Times. The cellist from ELO, Mike Edwards, was killed on Friday by a renegade hay bale. He was driving in his van in Devon, when all of a sudden the giant haybale burst through the hedge and crashed into his vehicle.

The haybale in question weighed 600kgs and may have fallen off a tractor working on a nearby hill. It picked up momentum as it moved towards the road, eventually killing Mr Edwards. He was 62 and was noted for the ability to play the cello with a grapefruit.

Here's a little stop motion video of Mr Blue Sky. It was somebody's second year short film project. It's rather cool actually. They could do with painting their gate pillars though.

N.B. I've just watched it a second time. It really does have strong religous overtones, what with the bodily ascension into heaven...