Ive broken my hand punching a wall, its not nice :/. Also I hated scheme in first year uni, my brain just did not get the pattern matching required... Australian uni's probably just copied the syllabus from US ones at that time.
I misremembered the story and checked on details: the arm broke in a fall while he was travelling several months prior to the move and it was Gerry joking that he punched a wall so he wouldn't have to move stuff.
