I was playing last night and grabbed a mount at the South Qeynos Gate Griffon Tower...
I sit on the bird and BLAMMMO! I go blind...
/quit characterselect
I log back in and I have a corpse trail...
Damned bird dropped me in the center of a gnoll village. They were all greens so I fought my way to the shard and recovered.
No more griffon rides for me... safer to run!