NY concertgoer Bird Piché partially paralyzed after Trophy Eyes singer’s stage dive into crowd

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[MDCrabCakeFan86]

NBC News recently interviewed singer Bird Piché and her family:

'His body and my neck': Woman recalls punk singer's stage dive that sent her to hospital paralyzed

Bird Piché, 24, was badly injured at a Trophy Eyes show April 30 in Buffalo, New York, but is regaining function of her arms and legs.

www.nbcnews.com

An Australian punk rock singer jumped into a western New York crowd and badly injured a fan she landed on, sending her to the hospital paralyzed, she and loved ones said Monday.

Since the incident at the Trophy Eyes concert at Mohawk Place in Buffalo on April 30, Bird Piché, 24, has regained use of her arms and some leg function — but not full use of her hands and toes, Piché and her family told NBC News.

The family feared the worst when Piché, named after legendary saxophonist Charlie "Bird" Parker, was rushed to the hospital.

"We were even worried she wasn't going to make it," mom Amy Leigh Flaminio said.

Piché never blacked out during the incident and said she clearly remembered how Trophy Eyes frontman John Floreani leaped backward into the audience.

"It was, like, his body and my neck," Piché said. "It was a crowd-surfing thing."

Piché said she has been following Trophy Eyes since 2016 and understands such stage antics aren't uncommon at punk performances.

"It's pretty typical at these kinds of shows," she said. "I didn't really know what to expect, but I definitely didn't expect to be in a hospital after the concert."

"I have a long road ahead, but I'm very optimistic right now," she said.

Piché, her mother and her stepfather declined to comment when they were asked whether they're considering any civil action.

For now, Piché and her family are just focusing on getting her back to 100%.

"I'm going to rehab either later today or tomorrow, but they do think I'll have full recovery," Piché said. "Nothing is certain, obviously, but they are predicting l will have full recovery of everything."

Piché now has "gross motor skills," the most basic movements of arms and legs. But she hopes to attain "fine motor skills" and the ability to make intricate finger and toe movements to achieve basic, everyday tasks.

"So my legs, it's involuntary, have been kicking a lot lately. I can't control it," said Piché, a patient service specialist for Planned Parenthood. "My arms, they're — besides my hand dexterity — almost fully there. My fingers don't have full movement."

Considering what the family were told the night of April 30, the outlook is better than expected.

Flaminio said: "It's going to be a long road, but the early signs are so promising. It's exciting."

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[Milk]

Googling Trophy Eyes and this doesn't age well

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Pieces of fucking shit.

 

[boxter432]

Glad they are recovering and improving and can potentially recover in full.

 

[Aangster]

John Floreani has to be a fuckwit, nice haircut to go with that flog.

 

[Kibbles]

View: https://twitter.com/valeriesxvoice/status/1786531926062268480

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Almost every venue notorious for these things have no stage diving type signs. Chain Reaction is full of stage divers the signs never stop anyone if anything it's rather tounge-in-cheek or just for legal reasons, not something ever enforced. Like the no moshing or crowd surfing signs at warped tour. Meanwhile the entire day I'm helping crowd surfers near the barrier 😵‍💫

 

[dennett316]

Fucking awful for her. I'm not about blaming anyone for an accident like this, I just hope she's financially looked after.

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Well I AM about that, and that fuckwit lead singer is entirely to blame. Dude is 6 foot 6 and jumped with little to no warning...what the fuck did he think might happen? He obviously didn't mean to paralyse someone, but he fucking did it, and needs to live with the civil and/or criminal liabilities of that dumbass decision.
Don't know much about his morals, but if that merch with the Twitter post saying "Fuck you" to someone who was concerned for their safety is anything to go by, then they ain't up to much.

EDIT - Glad to see that interview above where it looks like the damage hopefully won't be permanent, that's a big relief. She still has a long road to go though, and that dipshit singer should have to pay for it.

 

[onpoint]

Almost every venue notorious for these things have no stage diving type signs. Chain Reaction is full of stage divers the signs never stop anyone if anything it's rather tounge-in-cheek or just for legal reasons, not something ever enforced. Like the no moshing or crowd surfing signs at warped tour. Meanwhile the entire day I'm helping crowd surfers near the barrier 😵‍💫

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Mohawk is a pretty small venue. Small enough not to have barriers. It's crowd -> stage, and it's not a very tall one. And the ceiling is fairly low as well, though not low enough to prevent stage diving. I sincerely wonder how you realistically stop bands from doing/encouraging it outside of banning them from returning if they do it (not making excuses for what happened, just having trouble imagining a solution at the moment).

 

[Daphne]

I don't see how the singer isn't criminally negligent here at the minimum. You can't just suddenly jump onto someone half your size no matter the context. Add the fact it is expressly banned at the venue and I'd like to see charges.
And fuck them for responding to that social media post like that and then putting it on merch. This was always going to happen with this asshole.