Posted on 06/28/2004 6:22:43 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
Woman Killed as Winds Hit Vermont Wedding
ISLE LA MOTTE, Vt. (June 28) - A sudden gust of wind uprooted a tent at a wedding moments after the couple recited their vows, killing one guest and injuring more than a dozen others.
Tent poles, stakes and broken glass and china went flying through the air Saturday at the wedding of Jason and Carrie Guyette as a storm moved in.
The bridegroom's step-grandmother was killed by a pole. Her name was not released.
"There was this `whoosh,"' said Catherine LaBrecque, the bride's grandmother. "The tent went airborne. Everyone was screaming and then the next thing you know, people were on the ground and there was blood on all these people."
The guests suffered mostly cuts and scrapes. One guest was held overnight at a hospital with a concussion and cuts.
"Poles were flying by people," said Bruce La Bombard, the father of the bride. "The six-foot stakes they had in the ground were flying around like toothpicks."
06/28/04 14:56 EDT
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Boy, and I thought I had problems at my wedding!
Just once, I'd like to attend a wedding that didn't end this way.
Whew! Glad I escaped your wedding in one piece!
Being impaled at my first wedding would have been merciful.
No kidding! Dad was very worried about wind on the tarpage we had!
Hmmm, warning to the gay "weddings" in Vermont SSR?
LMFAO
Aye! Mine too, argh!
Leni
From the local Gannett rag
http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/bfpnews/news/1000h.htm
(Now if it was me, I'd sue whoever served up the beans at the reception.)
Watching M.A.S.H. reruns again, I see.
"Being impaled at my first wedding would have been merciful."
Isn't that supposed to happen on the wedding night?
Jocularity, jocularity, jocularity...
LOL! Much-appreciated end of the day laughs from hubby and me.Thanks!
Not for the groom.
Impaling comes at the divorce
Yuck. Alan Alda and Mike Farrell both set my teeth on edge. I'd rather watch a test pattern.
"Being impaled at my first wedding would have been merciful."
As I'm sure your ex-spouse would have been more accomodating to your request. :-}
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