At the time, he worked in a music shop, which had a piano showroom on the first floor (that's the one NOT on ground level, in case of confusion.) Now, you can kind of guess where this is going already, can't you? Pianos and heights don't mix.

So, this customer comes in to buy a piano, but he wants it today, not tomorrow, and the shop contacts their usual removers, to find they are busy. Will the customer wait? No, so they phone around other removers, and one guy says sure he can move it. Has he done it before? I guess not from what follows.

The shop has a straight stairway from the upper floor, with a bit of a landing halfway down, and the guys turn up, look at the stairs, and decide to lay planks on them, and ROLL the piano down the stairs, with one guy in front and one behind.

OK, you can definitely see where this is going now, can't you. They get the first set of wheels on the plank, and everything is fine, then the second set get onto the plank, and of course the piano starts to roll. The guy behind can't hold it, and the guy below is getting squashed, so he turns and runs. The piano chases him down the stairs, just as he trips and falls. The piano hits the landing, and somersaults over him, missing him entirely, and smashes to pieces at the bottom of the stairs.

The guy who told me the story had to sweep up the remains.

The sheer luck that protected they guy from being flattened will surely have given out sometime, so he may have appeared in a Darwin already.

Submitted on 09/15/2011

Submitted by: Matthew Grant
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Bruce said:
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Wow, if this happened as described then that guy on the bottom is one of the luckiest people in the world. He's lucky he didn't end up with the outline of a piano permanently crushed into his back. Thanks, Matthew!

Candi said:
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...Agreeing to such a stunt definitely qualifies him for idiocy status! Thanks Matthew!

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