Actually he didn't accidentally drink poison just once, but three times. His childhood nickname was "The Ghost" due to his accident prone nature. As an adult, he had rivals in various insturment making companies, who tried to assainate him multiple times but failed. One instance, they put a bomb under his bed, but they miscalculated his bedtime, another tried to kill him, but mistook an assistant for Sax. Eventually they settled for suing him as many times as was possible, and although he won, by the time Adolphe Sax died, he was penniless.

There's only 1 real explanation here: There's a kid somewhere whose sibling plays the saxophone and is practicing it for hours a day, and the kid hates that noise so much that when he's an adult, he invents time travel, just to be able to go back in time and kill the inventor of the saxophone, but whatever he tries, the inventor just won't die.

Obvious question - Did he invent it by accident?

So many Belgian facts on here, Father Damian and Adolphe Sax both are remarkable representations of the Belgian people

Ya know, I just gotta say... If someone were to write out every klutzy thing ANY of us have ever done over our lifetimes into some condensed list of ridiculousness, we might all come across looking just as accident-prone. Just sayin'.

and we thought it was hard to kill Rasputin

Our next door neighbour's kid was a bit like that. He started by literally throwing himself out of his pram, his Mum tried to catch him but couldn't, and he fell and split his head on a radiator. Then he pulled an the flex of an iron and pulled it off the ironing board onto his head. Next he rode his kiddie trike off down the street with his parents chasing him, and crashed into a garden wall. His crowning achievement was managing to release the handbrake on the family car whist he was STRAPPED INTO A TODDLER SEAT and his Dad was loading the boot. The car rolled away with just him in it. His parents were not abusive or neglectful. I witnessed first hand that this kid was bonkers. Edit to add: I forgot, he also once tripped and fell on a BBQ.

Ok so I guess the world really NEEDED this instrument

He looks like the "I see dead people" kid grown up

This explains so much

If you’re familiar with the saxophone, this tracks

Obviously, he needed something with which to play the blues.

Some divine entity tried really hard to prevent the invention of the saxophone and.. failed.

not a single sober and responsible adult was around him while he was growing up-trying to survive.

I think he's secretly a cat..hmm

That explains a lot.

Does no one suspect domestic violence here? Is that ehy abusers get away with it? Because everybody ignores it despite being hit with it in the face?

😳😂😎

Had to find a mean to express his blues!!!

Some time traveler really didn’t want the Saxophone to be invented

Last week I fell face first onto cement. I got two fractures of the eye orbit and the longest nosebleed I ever had.

I fell off a tree 9 times

He's like me!

Da’s ook nen Belg!

Geez wonder how many toes he's stubbed in his lifetime

fell into a frying pan (rolls eyes)

from Dinat, on the Meuse River in Belgium