This story is terribly sad but there’s a moral to it, I guess. About pranks. Or love and commitment. Or optimism.
Rachelle Friedman‘s hen’s night went horrifically wrong when her bridesmaids pushed her into the shallow end of a pool. Rachelle broke her neck and is now a paraplegic. The wedding was cancelled and has not been rescheduled.
From Gawker.com:
Rachelle Friedman is paralyzed from the chest down. Now she can’t marry her fiance because their combined income would cause her to lose her Medicaid benefits.
Light at the end of the tunnel: Rachelle, who worked as a dance and aerobics instructor before the accident, remains good-natured. Her betrothed is still devoted to her, even if he can no longer make his devotion official lest Rachelle lose the Medicaid benefits she now relies on. She’s not even mad at her friends: “It was playful, but it went wrong. It was a freak accident.” [ABC News]
Ever done something stupid or silly on a hen’s night? Clearly, this is at the extreme end, please God you’ve never been to a hen’s night that ended as tragically as this. But there’s a huge spectrum of behaviour that goes on at such occasions….
I remember when people used to think it was funny to pull someone’s chair out before they sat down. Imagine doing that now….you’d get sued and probably sent to jail for attempted manslaughter.
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I'm a Hairdresser and I've seen and heard some real horror stories about Hens/Bucks nights. It never ceases to amaze me what some people will think is funny!
I had a man ring up one Saturday morning begging me to fit him in for a colour, because he was getting married that afternoon and his mates had 'coloured' his hair at his Bucks night. I felt sorry for him (more so his future wife) and told him to come in. When he arrived I discovered his 'mates' had held him down and poured pure white king bleach over his head. Not only had they bleached his hair, they had left him with severe burns on his scalp and face, and he couldn't open his left eye. I explained to him that he needed to go to a doctor, not a Hairdresser, but all he was worried about was what his fiance was going to say when she saw him.
There was nothing I could do, his scalp was so badly burnt there was no way I would put colour on his hair. Thankfully he finally agreed to go to the emergency department. The entire time he was in the salon, his best man kept laughing and telling me I needed to find a sense of humour. Strangely, I failed to find what they'd done even remotely funny.
What a tragedy, this story and many of the comments below really show how quickly everything can change in life...
I've noticed a lot of people are presuming that something like this would only happen in the American health system - unfortunately it happens here also.
An example is what happened to Perry Cross (http://www.perrycross.com.au/) a young man who became a quadriplegic after an accident in a Rugby Game.
He went on to obtain a degree, despite the challenges most of us couldn't imagine facing, only to be told by the health system that if he took a job he would no longer receive any assistance. When you are on a breathing machine with a team of around-the-clock medical carers, that's expensive. Suggestions were made for him to receive LESS health funding, in accordance with his earnings, but logic wasn't on his side.
I believe now earns enough from his book and motivational speaking to cover the medical bills, luckily, because otherwise he certainly wasn't allowed to work AND survive in our system!!