Actor slits his own throat as knife switch turns fiction into reality
 

An actor slit his throat on stage when the prop knife for his suicide scene turned out to be a real one.

Daniel Hoevels, 30, slumped over with blood pouring from his neck while the audience broke into applause at the "special effect". Police are investigating whether the knife was a mistake or a murder plot. They are questioning the rest of the cast, and backstage hands with access to props; they will also carry out DNA tests.

Things went wrong at Vienna's Burgtheater as Hoevels' character went to "kill himself" in the final scene of Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots, on Saturday night
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008...r-slits-throat

Old news J, dates back from the 11th ;)

went through my Digg.com newsfeed which had 5000+ items ;)

Sounds very familiar, but had thought the previous time the person actually died... And it was from a stabbing because it was a retractable knife switched for a real one.