| Show ODDS ON ODDITIES I toting Gun Animals Predominate In of Freak Accidents Features It used to be news when aman a aman aman man bit a dog But in 1946 a dog shot a woman I And that's not all A kangaroo kanga kanga- I i roo shot a man So did a rab rab- bit A deer took a gun away from a hunter A fish chased a j fisherman of ofT the road by sneezing In his face A bee a goose a grasshopper a mouse and a l turtle got into the act act each in its own quaint way vay And an lee ice cube knocked a woman cold All AU this and more was turned up by National Safety council in its annual roundup of odd accidents And If you haven't already begun to suspect that things were a little wacky in the year just past read on The Ice Cometh Miss Jeannette was standing on the sidewalk in St. St Louis when an ice cube fell out of ot a hotel window It hit her squarely on the head and knocked her colder than the ice cube At the hospital they treated her with with with-an an ice pack I Alice Martin 52 and Emily Hauser Haus- Haus 1 er 66 were zipping along the I streets of Des Moines Iowa on a ai i motor scooter one day having a avery avery avery very fine time indeed when what should loom up ahead but a corner As they scooted adventurously around it the scooter unceremoniously unceremoniously unceremoniously upset depositing both ladies o on n the pavement with considerable f force orce and little dignity Sympathetic friends f suggested the scooters trade trad i in n their vehicle for an automobile or or if it youth must have its fling a kiddie car Really Burning Up S As Margaret Magaret was walking walking walk walk- i ing ng along the street in downtown Philadelphia i she was understandably understandably understand understand- a ably bly bewildered when two women a and nd a man sUddenly suddenly began I began beating her on the head She was burned up a little at this But not as much muchas as if they For the not cold f fact act was that Miss Stand ring was wason wason wason on fire A cigarette tossed from a nearby building had landed In her hair No other cigarette can make t this his statement Now about tl the e dog that sho the woman woman It happened in Baltimore as Mrs Ruth Patterson was enjoying enjoy enjoy- ing tog a bath Her police pup Toby spied a gun on the washstand put paw to pistol and let Mrs Patter Patter- son have it right in the bathtub bathtub- or more precisely right In the hand In Fresno Calif Cali Leonard Guraro Guraro Gur Gur- aro 21 was completing what he hoped had been a satisfactory test for a drivers driver's license As he nervously parked the car he stepped on the accelerator instead of the brake The car leaped the curb and zoomed through the plate glass window of an office the office the office of the examiner who was giving Guraro Gur Gur- 1 are aro the driving test License denied When the alarm rang in a Houston Hous ton fire station this summer Fireman Fireman Fire Fire- i iman man J. J H. H threw on his clothes and leaped for the quick- quick exit pole He missed and landed on the first floor 20 feet below below below-all all pounds of him Sure it was a false alarm In Fairmount City Mo fire rue started started started start start- ed in an auto from a short circuit but thoughtfully set ofT off the horn and sounded its own alarm Equally as obliging was a blaze that started in a tavern at Hugo Okla OkIa burned off ofT the cap of a hydrant released a stream of water and drowned itself e t if OO More understandable was the strange case of ot the kangaroo that shot the man This happened in Australia Australia Aus Aus- when Arthur Crosbie shot s a kangaroo through the hind legs and it fell on its back Crosbie reloaded the rifle and ind put the butt on the kangaroos kangaroo's neck to pin it down The kangaroo reached up twined a forepaw fore fore- paw around the trigger and shot Crosbie through the arm Prompted by t the te e same motive of self preservation a rabbit that lived just outside Louisville Ky resented resent resent- ed the activities of William WilHam Humphrey Humph Humph- rey a year old hunter He stuck out a n paw from Humphreys Humphrey's game bag pulled the trigger of Humphrey's Humphreys Humphreys Humphrey's Humph Humph- Humphreys Humphrey's reys rey's gun and shot him through the foot Humphrey now carries a rabbits rabbit's foot for luck when he goes hunting Guess what rabbit Edward M. M Brown of Beverly Hills Calif saw active service in both the European and Asiatic theaters theaters theaters the the- aters without a scratch He decided decided de de- to relax by bv come oin hunting huntin A companion shot a goose It plummeted plummeted plum plum- meted down struck Brown smack in the chest knocked him flat and inflicted injuries that kept himin him himin himin in the hospital 45 days Many a bee has caused a traffic accident but a super-busy super one in Hammond Ind lad cracked up three autos by merely stinging the driver of at one of the cars The driver Walter Waller Sohl drove Into another car which then crashed into a third ma ma- chine lie He Gets Buck Fever Back in the meatless days Del Halstead licked his chops as he drew a sight on a big buck deer near Buckhorn station Calif Cali Just Justas as he rele sed the safety catch on his rifle he was as hit from behind and sent sprawling Another buck had bounded out of a thicket and landed ala lla the marines in the nick of time Halstead not only lost his gun he he also lost two bucks Same Old Story Put a mouse and a woman in the same car and something has to give So when Mrs Orson Rheingold of Albany N. N Y found she was sharing her car car- with a traveling field mouse she just did what came naturally The car smacked into a pole and the field mouse returned to the field Gustav of Milwaukee is a kindly man So when he and his wife found a turtle in their back backyard backyard backyard yard they put it in a box box on the front scat of their car and started to take it to a nice homey place in inthe inthe the country The turtle confused or just plain ungrateful slipped out of the box crawled up leg legand legand legand and bit him good and hard turned turtle and so did the car car car- via a tree Chips Pay Of Off After that anything must seem dull But the case of Pete Bird of Shelbyville Ky may be worth recording When Then a mere boy Bird was chopping a log on a farm when a chip flew up and struck him in lit inthe inthe the eye bringing a cataract and blindness In 1946 just 1946 just 42 years later Bird again was chopping wood Again a chip flew up and hit him in the eye tearing the cataract loose and restoring sight Then there was the case of the sultry pocketbook It belonged to Miss Janice Peterson of New York City who traced smoke to a drawer in her office desk and found a cIgarette cigarette cigarette cig cIg- arette lighter in her purse had flicked on And it hardly ever works when you OU want It to she moaned A boom hit the rural community com corn of Plymouth Wis when 16 year old Robert Marth shot at a sparrow perched on a n farm wagon missed the sparrow hit the wagon and set oil off its pound 1300 load ol ot dynamite Casualties Casualties 6 0 windows 1 I wagon and 1 sparrow Dont Don't We All AU Stanley of East Enst Ch cage eago Ind md entered the dentists dentist's office with a toothache and le left t with a I headache As the dentist reached for the forceps lightning struck theoffice the theoffice office building and a hunk of at plaster plas pIns I ter from the ceiling conked on the head where th the novocain hadn't reached year Three-year-old Ernest Liedemann S of Chicago tumbled Into the Chicago Chicago Chi Chi- cago river from a bridge high above As he hit the thc water his clothing caught on a nail that protruded protruded pro pro- from the piling and held his head above water until he was res res- res- res cued Close up runner-up for fall fashions was Abraham Wilson of New York As Wilson was lowering a couch from a story four-story in a warehouse he tripped in the rigging and he and the couch plunged down down- ward He caught up with the couch as they passed the third floor The force of the impact wedged the couch against the shaft wall where surprised workers worker found Wilson curled up cozily S Another Fish Yarn Most fantastic of all all perhaps is is the celebrated case of the s sneezing 0 salmon James Mantakes of La LaGrande LaGrande Grande Ore caught the salmon tossed it in the rear of his car and started for home to show the folks As the car chugged alo g desert dust blew into the salmons salmon's gills and it sneezed Yes it did This startled Mantakes He glanced back saw nothing but a fish and shrugged of off the sound Another Another An An- other sneeze Mantakes whirled around this time to see an angry salmon on the back of the seat glaring balefully at him with bloodshot eyes As if that weren't enough a grasshopper chose that moment to come flying in through the window The salmon abandoned Mantakes lunged at the grasshopper per missed and fell back in the lap of or the now thoroughly disorganized driver Mantakes gave himself over entirely entirely entirely en en- to subduing the salmon The car went crashing of off oU the road The salmon sneezed spitefully once or twice more more and and succumbed Victims of All Ages Yo Youngest victim of an odd accident accident acci ned dent in 1946 undoubtedly was a baby baby babygirl girl who was shot before she was born Her mother Mrs Arthur Laughton was shot in a hunting accident at Winthrop Me and the baby was born prematurely a bullet bullet bullet bul bul- bul- bul let wound in her left thigh When most people were desperately desperately desper desper- desperately trying to find auto tires Stanley Stanley Stan Stan- ley Icy Yanick of Chicago just stood still on the sidewalk and one came rolling right up to him Unfortunately it had a wheel attached and it flattened him The tire was the wrong size anyway When Mrs Ralph Gilmore of Philadelphia Philadelphia Phil- Phil adelphia heard a certain program C AC A- A coming in on her radio she hurried hurried hur hur- ried ned across the room to turn up the Uie volume tripped on a tug rug ug and and- fell feU suffering minor injuries The The program Mrs Gilmore fell for A broadcast on home hazards by National National Na Na- Safety council |
