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Eccentric Eddie
Eccentric Eddie was, as his name would suggest it, pretty crazy. He had these ideas that most people would have dismissed as just pure idiocy, but Eddie was convinced that only he could see the genius behind the lunacy.
I remember when he got the sponsorship deal with Heineken, on not entirely truthful terms; he promised to make them the first beer drunk on the moon. He didn't exactly detail how he was going to do it and when the first truck delivery arrived and was unloaded in his back garden we were invited round to help empty a few crates.
They were delivered in those solid plastic reinforced crates that hold like thirty bottles each. As we finished each one Eddie would stack one on top of the next.
When we were five crates in Eddie climbed on top of the stack and after that we started to pass him each successive empty crate as we emptied them.
It became apparent to those of us on the ground that our bodies couldn't hold all this beer by ourselves so we put a sign in Eddie's front lawn that said "Free beer!" When the local kids saw that they came in droves. Pretty soon Eddie was gaining altitude at a phenomenal rate, using a piece of rope to hoist the next empty crate up there.
So here was the situation, you had a guy on a tall thin stack of crates, nicely drunk and pretty crazy to begin with gradually gaining height and down on the ground were a few hundred drunken idiots falling over and throwing up all over his back yard, dizzy and staggeringm swaying about and bumping into one another.
Can you guess what happened?
Well no you can't, cause he was hit by a passing albatross and fell to his death. None of us saw that coming until he hit the patio at terminal velocity.
Nov. 6.2006