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12-12-2008, 05:47 AM
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Actor Slits Throat LIVE on Stage
I couldn't just leave this to be buried in the True Crime section. Deserves more attention because it made my morning.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...r-slits-throat  An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one. Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests. Things went wrong at Vienna's Burgtheater as Hoevels' character went to "kill himself" in the final scene of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots, on Saturday night It was only when he did not get up to take a bow that anyone realised something had gone wrong. Though bleeding profusely, Hoevels survived because the knife missed the carotid artery as it sliced into his neck. Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, said: "Just a little bit deeper and he would have been drowning in his own blood." One officer told Austrian TV news: "The rumours are wild, with some claiming that he was the victim of jealous rival. "We don't know anything for sure yet; we have to work through everyone." The knife was reportedly bought at a local shop; one possibility is that the props staff forgot to blunt its blade. "The knife even still had the price tag on it," an investigator said. After emergency treatment at a hospital, Hoevels declared that the show must go on, and returned to the stage on Sunday night with a bandage tied around his neck, ready to once again meet his mock demise.
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12-12-2008, 05:53 AM
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Unless the guy is actually extremely lucky, in which case I ll stand corrected.
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that's crazy man...but how could you start cutting your throat and not realize that it's a real knife?
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12-12-2008, 06:02 AM
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I suppose it could have been a publicity stint. I mean who is going to want to go back onstage when there is a chance someone is out to get you, not to mention you just slit your own throat.
I just imagine he would be making a quick motion at it, to make it look real and the prop knife would have retracted when he did so. I am hoping it was real because that's a really smart plot to kill someone.
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12-12-2008, 06:05 AM
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I don't see why any one would slit their own throat to get attention.. that's a bit much. very fishy.
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12-12-2008, 06:17 AM
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i dont understand how someone could cut their arms or legs for attention either - but it happens. more desperate needs call for more desperate actions i guess (you want one or two people to notice, cut your arm - you want a nation to notice - cut your throat on stage) it worked - cant argue with his logic if thats what he was doing.
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12-12-2008, 07:12 AM
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It could be anything. I find it hard to believe someone would do that to themselves, but it is possible. And now he's got his face on the news and in papers etc, and in interesting story for THS.
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