A young New York woman was paralyzed and can only move her arms and communicate via text message after a singer at a concert she attended tried to crowd surf and landed on her .
Bird Piché, 24, fell to the ground as singer John Floreani, of Australian punk rock band Trophy Eyes, jumped into the mosh pit at the concert in Buffalo.
Footage shared online shows the moment Floreani did a jump into the crowd – a stunt he often performs at concerts.
Although Piché is not visible in the footage, she was cornered by Floreani during the stunt minutes after the first song of the set beginning at Buffalo’s Mohawk Place.
The show was immediately stopped and Floreani accompanied Piché in the ambulance to the hospital.
Bird Piché, 24, is paralyzed and can only move her arms and communicate via text message, after a singer at the concert she was attending tried to crowd surf and landed on top of her.
Piché, 24, was hit by singer John Floreani of the band Trophy Eyes while trying to crowd surf
The show was immediately stopped and Floreani, seen on the far left, accompanied Piché in the ambulance
“The video is wild because unless you know someone was hurt in the video you would never expect it. Like it’s just an average step dive. The video I saw on Facebook and then from another angle surfaced on a Reddit thread, both seem harmless enough,” family friend Wolter Tejera told WGRZ.
But the dive was devastating and Piché suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury and required major surgery.
“She has a long recovery ahead of her and will need all the help she can get. It is still too early to know her prognosis, but after leaving the hospital, she will have to go to a rehabilitation center. She obviously won’t be able to work during this time,” says a GoFundMe page, which has so far raised $53,000.
The fundraiser organizer, a close family friend, said the woman had already undergone “extensive surgery.”
“It is still too early to know her prognosis, but after leaving the hospital she will have to go to a rehabilitation center. She will obviously not be able to work during this period.
Her friend Tejera is still trying to understand why Piché was so seriously injured.
John Floreani can be seen crowd surfing at a concert in Buffalo, New York.
Piché fell to the ground when singer John Floreani, of the Australian punk rock band Trophy Eyes, hit her. She can only move her arms
Floreani’s dive was devastating and Piché suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury
The band said in a statement that they were “truly heartbroken” by the incident, but decided to continue their U.S. tour in 2024 and donated $5,000 toward Piché’s medical costs.
“He dove into the crowd, and there just couldn’t have been enough people to catch him, otherwise they didn’t know he was going to jump.” And that was kind of it from then on,” Tejera said.
‘Some people They said they thought she had passed out, so they went to get her a cold cloth. And then when they came back, they realized she was on the ground. She didn’t get up and John, the singer, was there with her. So yeah, they took her straight to the hospital for emergency trauma surgery and then she was admitted.
The band said in a statement that they were “truly heartbroken” by the incident, but decided to continue their U.S. tour in 2024 and donated $5,000 toward Piché’s medical costs.
“This situation has shaken us all to the core and we ask for patience as we seek to help Bird through this difficult time. Please keep Bird in your thoughts,” the statement read.
A commenter who claimed to be standing behind Piché as Floreani dove from the stage said the singer was “clearly devastated” after realizing he had hurt her.
“My partner and I were right next to her. As soon as we heard her say she was scared and couldn’t move, we knew it wasn’t good. John was clearly devastated,” they wrote.
“Yeah, once the crowd went silent and I heard her say ‘I’m scared,’ I immediately knew what just happened wasn’t good,” added another .
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