Ozzy Osbourne | ATV Accident
Forty years of drugs and boozing haven’t exactly helped the rock (and reality show) legend’s speech or health. But the time Osbourne claimed to have died twice in 2003 had nothing to do with biting off a bat’s head or snorting ants. The Prince of Darkness, then 55 years old, was riding an all-terrain vehicle around the grounds of his Buckinghamshire mansion when the ATV hit a pothole and catapulted him over the handlebars and down a hill. The ATV wasn’t far behind him, and landed on his chest. Osbourne’s bodyguard had to resuscitate him twice after he stopped breathing due to his injures: a punctured lung, eight broken ribs, and a smashed collarbone. After an eight-day coma, Osbourne came to and proclaimed he was ready to “grow up.” So ATV riding is childish, but wearing raccoon eyeliner isn’t? Oh who cares, Ozzy rules.
