May 16, 2005

Thriller Fodder

He was found soaking wet in the middle of the night, unable to speak and dressed in an expensive dinner suit.

The only real clue to his identity is an astonishing talent for the piano.

The 6ft musician — dubbed The Piano Man — is believed to have suffered a nervous breakdown which has deprived him of his memory and left him unable to communicate except through drawings and a remarkable ability for music.

Two police officers discovered him stumbling along a road near a beach in Sheerness, Kent, during a storm last month. Police said that he was soaked to the skin, possibly from the heavy rain, but his clothes were so drenched that they thought he may have been in the sea...


(via Norm.)

UPDATE: here's more.

Posted by Dr. Frank at May 16, 2005 01:34 PM | TrackBack
Comments

This may be the guy looking for Elton John tabs in broken English. He's not Belgian, he's just brain-damaged.

(Even now, I'm smiling to myself, thinking about how Douglas Adams portrayed the word "Belgium" as the foulest curse word in all the galaxy.)

Posted by: Stig at May 16, 2005 05:18 PM

Sounds to me like Billy Joel is drunk again......

Posted by: Zaphod at May 16, 2005 06:39 PM

Could be Billy Joel. Did they find a half-submerged Mercedes further up the beach?

Posted by: Stig at May 17, 2005 04:25 PM

Uh, hello, "remarkable ability for music" = not Billy Joel dead giveaway.

Posted by: mike at May 18, 2005 12:36 AM