BUFFALO, N.Y. — Bird Piché, 24, loves punk music, and one of her favorite bands is Trophy Eyes.
During the band's live show at Mohawk Place in Buffalo last week, the lead singer did a stage dive into the crowd, and Piché was seriously injured.
According a family friend, Leo Wolter Tejera, "the video is wild because unless you knew that someone was hurt in the video, you'd never expect that. Like it's just an average stage dive. The video that I saw on Facebook and then another angle surfaced on a Reddit thread, both of them just seem fairly innocuous."
However, that was not the case.
During the first song, the lead singer, according to Wolter Tejera, "stage dove into the crowd, and there must just not have been enough people around there to catch him, or they weren't aware that he was going to jump. And that was kind of it from then, a couple of people on Reddit said they they thought she had fainted, so they went to grab her a cold rag. And then when they came back, they realized she was on the ground. She wasn't getting up and John, the singer, was was like right there with her. So yeah, they took her right to the hospital into emergency trauma surgery, and then she was admitted."
She is now in a regular room. The lead singer went with Bird to the hospital.
She is breathing on her own, and Leo says Bird can use her arms and communicating via text.
There is now a GoFundMe to cover her medical expenses.
Bird is from the Olean-Allegany area attended Fredonia University. She now lives in Buffalo and works for Planned Parenthood.
Wolter Tejera said Bird "is an incredibly talented artist. She enjoys photography and painting.
"She is an activist and an advocate and an artist at heart. She's kind of just embodying those things. Stepping out into the world and being this person that she was raised to be and being very fully vibrant. She is a good person in this world who's doing good things. She's a young adult who's embodying the things that she believes in and working to make the world a better place. It just doesn't seem like someone like that should be harmed in such a random, completely chaotic way."