Michael Lohan Isn't the Only One: Five Other Stars Who Fell Out of Trees

No, Lindsay Lohan's troubled and oft-arrested father isn't alone in timber-related tumbles, but, frankly, he's one of the luckier ones

OK, so Michael Lohan got arrested twice in the same week. OK, so he tried to evade capture (the second time) by jumping from his apartment's third-story balcony to a tree. OK, so he missed. The branches, that is.

These things happen. And, sad truth be told, the tree-falling part happens quite a bit, and not just to Lindsay Lohan's father, either.

Here are five other celebrities who took timber-related tumbles—one fatally so:

1. Keith Richards: In 2006, the Rolling Stones' guitarist underwent brain surgery after falling out of a coconut tree, and, in a separate manuever, off a Jet Ski. Because he's Keith Richards (and because the tree wasn't all that tall, he insisted), the road warrior recovered in a matter of weeks. 

2. Joan Baez: Around the same time as Richards' coconut-tree mishap, this folk singer and activist took up residence in a Los Angeles redwood as part of a protest movement. Baez told reporters she was no stranger to tree-living as she regularly communed in a wall-less treehouse. "But that's only 20-feet high," she said, "and I have a ladder." Four years later, Baez sustained minor injuries when she fell guess-how-far from guess-what while climbing down from guess-whose-wall-less treehouse.

3. Susan Hayward: Even cut trees can pose hazards. This future Oscar-winner and Valley of the Dolls star suffered "a bump on [the] head," it was reported in 1942, when she fell off a log while at work on a movie. 

4. Jackie Chan: You might think this risk-taking action hero easily could have made Michael Lohan's balcony-to-tree jump, but you never can tell with jumps—or trees. In 1986, while filming the Hong Kong film Armour of God, Chan's attempt to leap from a castle wall to a tree failed when he couldn't get a handle on a limb, and landed on the ground. On his head. Wrote Chan, who somehow survived: "A piece of my skull cracked and shot up into my brain, and blood poured from my ears."

5. Johnny Sheffield: Here's hoping Michael Lohan comes to understand just how easy he got off with his own tree stunt. Last year, Sheffield, a former child star who famously played Tarzan's vine-swinging companion Boy in the 1930s and 1940s, died shortly after a fall from a ladder he'd climbed to prune a palm tree. Said his widower: "He was a jungle boy to the end."