TOOLE FALLS FROM COCONUT PALM

(Las Palmas de Gran Canaria) Award winning American journalist, Melvin Toole, was hospitalized here after a fall from a giant coconut palm tree. According to witnesses on the beach Toole was at the top of the tree reaching for choice fruit when he slipped and fell.

The offending tree

“His path followed the basic outline of the trunk,” said a companion. “He bounced his way to the sand colliding with the trunk at least five times before landing.”
Bathers at first thought the fall was a stunt and that Toole was simply practicing some sort of misguided act. When the ambulance arrived most of them feigned concern then went back to tanning.

The rattled writer, a former member of the Flying Farcheezie High Wire Troupe, has been known to engage in senseless tricks and idiotic feats over the years. However, this most recent death-defying move was purely accidental say friends.

Toole is expected to be released from the hospital as soon as his clown suit comes back from the dry cleaners.

– Nicholas Breakspear aka His Extreme Holiness