Solve the Mystery - Challenge 2

[Slade]

Is the stick in any way a phallic symbol?

 

[UnseenWombat]

Is the stick in any way a phallic symbol?
NO

 

[Slade]

I'm suddenly much less interested.

 

[Juez]

I didn't notice this thread at all...

Is a son who tricks his father to eat his own wife involved in any way?

 

[UnseenWombat]

Yeah, no one really cares, and I don't either anymore, so here's the answer you lazy bums:

Spoiler

The man was a blind trapeze artist. He always drew in huge crowds because to everyone's amazement he worked without a net. Everyone wondered how he managed to time his jumps without being able to see the swinging bars. The secret was that the man who did the drumroll leading up to his initial leap would stop drumming right before the blind man was supposed to jump, and that was how he knew the bar was within his reach, and the rest was just done by feel and by timing. Well, on this night, the drummer had been drinking and accidentally dropped his stick. The acrobat thought this was his cue to jump, but the trapeze wasn't there and he fell to his death.