{"id":498,"date":"2022-06-15T21:42:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fusefornews.com\/2022\/06\/15\/injured-crowd-surfer-67-meets-the-killers-frontman\/"},"modified":"2022-06-15T21:42:21","modified_gmt":"2022-06-15T21:42:21","slug":"injured-crowd-surfer-67-meets-the-killers-frontman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/?p=498","title":{"rendered":"Injured crowd surfer, 67, meets The Killers frontman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">A gig by The Killers in Manchester was stopped when frontman Brandon Flowers jumped off the stage to see if a 67-year-old crowd surfer who fell was OK.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Doug James from Sale, Greater Manchester, cut his head when he <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-61783869\" class=\"ssrcss-moz6zf-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">tried crowd-surfing for the first time<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">Flowers, who named Mr James Billy, checked to see if he was OK and hugged him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">The crowd were then chanting &#8220;Billy&#8221; when Flowers returned to the stage and explained he had asked Mr James what he was doing. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\">&#8220;Do you know what he said? He said &#8216;I&#8217;m enjoying myself'&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph eq5iqo00\"><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">Why not follow BBC North West on <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/en-gb.facebook.com\/BBCNW\/\" class=\"ssrcss-moz6zf-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Facebook<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">, <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BBCNWT\" class=\"ssrcss-moz6zf-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Twitter<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\"> and <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/bbcnorthwest\/\" class=\"ssrcss-moz6zf-InlineLink e1no5rhv0\">Instagram<\/a><i class=\"ssrcss-xbdn93-ItalicText e5tfeyi2\">? You can also send story ideas to <\/i>northwest.newsonline@bbc.co.uk<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-manchester-61790485?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] A gig by The Killers in Manchester was stopped when frontman Brandon Flowers jumped off the stage to see if a 67-year-old crowd surfer who fell was OK. Doug &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":499,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fusefornews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}