Riverboat Gambler hit by car 2009-10-22 by oh trudy, youre with the meanest boy in the hills STAFF | 8 Comments | Riverboat Gamblers guitarist Ian McDougall was hit by a car while riding his bicycle last week, sustaining substantial, but non-critical, injuries.
McDougall must endure several hospital procedures and extensive physical therapy. The band have set up a paypal account for fans to make donations towards the cost of his recovery.
The account, along with a gnarly pic and a message from the band (reproduced below) can be found here: http://helpian.tumblr.com/
"It’s definitely been a trying few days. On the night of Saturday October 17th, while riding his bike home, a car hit Ian Mcdougall, guitarist of our band Riverboat Gamblers. He sustained some pretty heavy injuries including a broken hip, a broken wrist and hemmoraging under the skull along with many lacerations, torn ligaments, bruises and and scrapes.
"He was rushed by ambulance to Brackenridge hospital in Austin and stayed in the ICU for 2 days before being moved into his own room where he is undergoing physical therapy while awaiting the results on X-rays and MRIs as well as a deluge of other various tests. That being said, the prognosis is better than we had first thought. We are happy that he is going to be ok and that he is alive and with us. Unfortunately, not only is he in for a long recovery and is in a lot of pain, but he will be celebrating his birthday in bed with hospital food.
"On another unfortunate note, there are a pile of bills currently gaining a Mt. Everest-like summit from all his hospital expenses. We set up a PayPal account for our band mate and friend to try and help him get on top of the debt and focus on his recovery. His PayPal account email is ian.gambler@gmail.com. Anything you can afford to give will be greatly appreciated by Ian and his family. Thank you all for your support and we wish Ian the speediest of recoveries."
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how do you get hit by a car when you're on a riverboat?
seriously though, that sucks. the same thing happened to my dad last year and he's just getting back to normal.
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Good thing he wasn't riding a tandem with Opeth
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Title is kind of chuckle worthy.
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Title is kind of chuckle worthy.
But seriously, rad band, shitty news.
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That's some GTA shit.
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he did it for the publicity
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lol title. but too bad he looks massively fucked.
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