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Concertgoer Injured By Flying Sheep's Head Band Offers Man Free Concert Ticket, Man Sues POSTED: 3:29 p.m. EST March 10, 2003 OSLO, Norway -- If you go to a death metal concert, there's always a chance you could be hurt in the mosh pit, or end up with ringing ears from the loud music -- but who would think to watch out for flying sheep heads? A fan at a Mayhem concert in Oslo, Norway, ended up with a fractured skull when he was socked in the noggin by a flying sheep's head. The band carved up a dead sheep...

Norwegian black metal band Mayhem is known for hurling animal parts into its concert audiences, but things went wrong at a performance last week. A 25-year-old fan in Bergen landed in the hospital after getting hit by a sheep’s head.Per Kristian Hagen is recovering from emergency surgery and taking the incident in good humour, but he’s filed a police report against Mayhem even though he otherwise enjoyed their show. “If it turns out I’ve got permanent injuries after this, it’s important to have some sort of record to refer to,” Hagen told local newspaper Bergensavisen. “I’ll have to file a...

OSLO, Norway - A flying sheep's head hit a concertgoer and fractured his skull at a concert of metal band Mayhem. The band, part of Norway's death metal music scene, was carving up a dead sheep as part of its stage act when the animal's head flew off lead singer Maniac's knife and struck Per Kristian Hagen, 25. The show was Thursday in Bergen, 487 kilometers (302 miles) west of the capital, Oslo. "My relationship to sheep is a bit ambivalent now. I like them, but not when they come flying through the air," Hagen told The Associated Press Monday...