Velvet Underground’s “The Gift” in Real Life
From the Daily Mail:
A fun-loving boyfriend decided to surprise his partner by posting her an unusual present – himself.
But the joke went horribly wrong when the delivery was delayed and he almost suffocated to death.
Hu Seng, from Chongqing city in southern China, made a friend tape him into a box that he had paid a courier firm to deliver to his girlfriend, Li Wang. (Full story here.)
This brings to mind the tale of Waldo Jeffers as told in “The Gift,” a song by the Velvet Underground from their 1968 album, White Light/White Heat. His ending, however, is a little, er, less happy.
