I drove past the Kooza tent on Saturday on my way to North Lakes in Brisbane to go to my cousin's place for a BBQ.
The Kooza tent in Sydney the night I saw it, Sept 22nd, 2016 |
Cirque du Soleil acrobat falls during Brisbane show
"A BRISBANE-born acrobat was hospitalised yesterday after falling during a performance of Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza.
Lisa Skinner, 35, was swinging from a hoop about 6m from the ground when she fell during the matinee performance in the Big Top at Brisbane Airport’s Skygate yesterday afternoon.
It is believed she escaped serious injury."
I saw this photo above of Lisa performing (in Cronulla colours, too) at the 2004 Olympic games and I couldn't help thinking how lucky she was yesterday avoiding serious injury, or even death.
I wrote about the Brisbane bus with the Kooza advertisement on the side of it that caught my attention in another bleak news story I saw a few weeks ago -
Koozå and Death?
Not only did I see the story of a Brisbane girl Lisa Skinner falling during a Kooza show in her/my hometown, but I also saw a story in the newspaper yesterday about Andrew Johns having a fall at Lennox Heads from his surfboard and breaking his sternum.
League great Andrew Johns feared he was having a heart attack
"Rugby league great Andrew Johns has revealed he thought he was having a heart attack following a surfing accident.
Johns fell heavily while surfing but drove home.
In the middle of the night he woke up with an excruciating chest pain and initially thought it was a heart attack.
He was rushed to hospital and it was later revealed the 42-year-old had a broken sternum."
I wrote about visiting Andrew's hometown, Newcastle on the way down to Sydney in this post -
New Castle? See Change?
Let's hope it's all blue skies ahead now for the Kooza show and that the dark clouds are now gone.
"A BRISBANE-born acrobat was hospitalised yesterday after falling during a performance of Cirque du Soleil’s Kooza.
Lisa Skinner, 35, was swinging from a hoop about 6m from the ground when she fell during the matinee performance in the Big Top at Brisbane Airport’s Skygate yesterday afternoon.
It is believed she escaped serious injury."
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Lisa Skinner during the Olympics in Athens, Greece in 2004 |
I wrote about the Brisbane bus with the Kooza advertisement on the side of it that caught my attention in another bleak news story I saw a few weeks ago -
Koozå and Death?
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Bus driver killed in horror attack after man sets him on fire |
League great Andrew Johns feared he was having a heart attack
"Rugby league great Andrew Johns has revealed he thought he was having a heart attack following a surfing accident.
Johns fell heavily while surfing but drove home.
In the middle of the night he woke up with an excruciating chest pain and initially thought it was a heart attack.
He was rushed to hospital and it was later revealed the 42-year-old had a broken sternum."
Andrew Johns following Jim Maloney around after the final |
New Castle? See Change?
Let's hope it's all blue skies ahead now for the Kooza show and that the dark clouds are now gone.
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