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A young woman from New York state has been paralyzed and is only able to move her arms and communicate by text, after a singer at the concert she was attending attempted to crowd surf and landed on top of her.
Bird Piché, 24, fell to the floor the moment singer John Floreani, of Australian punk rock band Trophy Eyes, jumped into the mosh pit at the gig in Buffalo.
Footage shared online sees the moment Floreani took a leap into the crowd - a stunt he often performs during concerts.
Although Piché can't be seen in the footage, she was stuck by Floreani during the stunt within minutes of the first song of the set starting at Buffalo's Mohawk Place.
The show was immediately stopped and Floreani accompanied Piché in the ambulance to hospital.
Bird Piché, 24, has been paralyzed and is only able to move her arms and communicate by text, after a singer at the concert she was attending attempted to crowd surf and landed on her
Piché, 24, was struck by the singer, John Floreani of the band Trophy Eyes as he attempted to crowd surf
The show was immediately stopped and Floreani, seen far left, accompanied Piché in the ambulance
'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,' friend of the family Wolter Tejera said to WGRZ.
But the dive was devastating and Piché suffered a catastrophic spinal cord injury and she was forced to undergo extensive surgery.
'She has a long recovery ahead and will need all the help she can get. It is still too early to know what her prognosis is but after leaving the hospital she will need to go to a rehab facility. She will
