Morose Mondays Return of the Morosity

Just when you think you're out - I pull you back in the infamous if distorted words of either Silvio or Don Corleone.  That's right the highlight of your working week returns.  Morose Mondays is back and with it another interesting and amusing journey in human morbidity.  Last week the impassioned lawyer taught us an invaluable lesson in knowing when to quit, and before that the cannibalistic proletariat in post revolutionary France that one should not waste a good meal.  Though one should not be duped into believe that these posts impart any advice whatsoever.  The sole purpose of Morose Mondays is to impart some mildly amusing and interesting deaths.  I solemnly vow that this post will at all times place interest and amusement above any attempt to teach anybody anything.  

And so we move on.  The artistic types have always been a source of sorrow and fragile fluctuating emotions, be they musicians, painter, sculptor or Mario Balotelli there exists something in their psyche  that brings the wider public to believe them frankly unstable at best.  To be honest the reference previously was just a conduit to add this hilarious picture below.  

Poetry In Motion?

This week we journey to the year 2002, and the slightly sad yet amusing tale of one Richard Sumner (no relation to Gordon or Gotye - they must be related they sound too damn similar).  A tragic story really Richard was suffering from schizophrenia when he had the idea to to travel into deepest darkest Wales and handcuff himself to a tree.  Having succeeded in doing this he eliminated his route of escape by throwing the keys beyond his reach.  Fast forward 3 years and what must have felt like the opening scenes in Bones or Silent Witness became a reality for an unfortunate lost dog walker. The skeletal remains of a man who had handcuffed himself to a tree who the coroner noted "later changed his mind"...er not such a good idea after all

An artistic mind deep in the doldrums takes his own life "as lovers often do" if only he were less elaborate.  A lesson?  If you go down to the woods today you're sure of a big surprise...

For a funny interview with Gordon Sumner - YouTube has the flesh: