Show ODDS ON ODDITIES S gun toting animals predominate in roundup of freak accidents WW features it used to be news when a man bit a dog but in 1946 a dog shot a woman and not all A kangaroo shot a man so did a rabbit A deer took a gun away from a hunter A fish chased h S ed a fisherman off the road by sneezing in his lace face A bee a goose a grasshopper a mouse and a turtle got into the act each in its own quaint way and an lee ice cube knocked a woman cold all this and more was turned up by national safety council in its annual roundup of odd accidents and it if you already begun to suspect that things were a little wacky in the year just past read on the ice cometh miss jeannette esslinger was standing on the sidewalk in st louis when an ice cube tell fell out ol of 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 an ice hackl alice martin 52 and emily hauser 60 were ivere zipping along the streets of des moines iowa 0 on n a 14 3 motor scooter one day having a very fine time indeed when what should loom up ahead but a corner As they scooted adventurously around it the scooter unceremoniously upset depositing both ladies on the pavement with considerable force and little dignity sympathetic friends suggested the scooters shooters oters trade in their vehicle for an automobile or if youth must have its fling a kiddle car really burning up As margaret was walking along the street in downtown philadelphia she was understandably bewildered when two women and a man suddenly began beating her on the head she was burned up a little at this but not as much as if they for the not so cold fact was that miss was on fire A cigarette tossed from a nearby building had landed in her hair no other cigarette can make this statement now about the dog that shot the woman it happened in baltimore as mrs ruth patterson Patters was enjoying a bath her policed pup pul p toby spied a gun on the washstand stand put paw to pistol and let mrs patterson I 1 0 0 0 n have it right in the bathtub or more precisely right in the hand in fresno calif leonard guraro 21 was completing what he lipped hoped had been a satisfactory test tor for a dri drivers license A As he nervously parked the car lie he stepped on the accelerator instead ol of the brake the car leaped the c curb ur b arid and zoomed through the plate glass window of an office offic ethe the office of the examiner who was giving guraro the dri driving ving test license denied when the alarm rang in a hous ton fire station this summer fire man J H threw on his clothes and leaped tor for the quick exit pole he missed and landed ker plank on the first floor 20 feet below all pounds of him sure it was a false alarm in fairmount city mo fire start ed in an auto from a short circuit but thoughtfully set off the horn and sounded its own alarm equally as obliging was a blaze that started in a tavern at hugo okla i burned off the cap of a hydrant released a stream of water and drowned itself 6 6 01 0 more understandable was the strange case of the kangaroo that shot the man T this h Is happened in australla australia when arthur crosbie shot a kangaroo through the hind legs and it fell ell on its back crosbie reloaded the rifle and put the butt on the kangaroos neck to pin it down the kangaroo reached up twined a tore fore paw around the trigger and shot crosbie through the arm prompted by the same motive e 0 of f self preservation a rabbit that il lived ve d just outside louisville ky resented the activities of william humphrey a 16 year old hunter he stuck out a paw from humphreys game bag pulled the trigger of humphreys gun and shot him through the I 1 loot 0 ot humphrey now carries a rabbits foot tor for luck when he goes hunting guess what edward M brown of beverly hills calif saw active service I 1 in n both the european and asiatic theaters without a scratch he decided to relax by going hunting A companion shot a goose it plummeted down struck brown smack in the chest knocked him flat and inflicted injuries that kept him in the hospital 45 days many a bee has caused a traffic accident but a super busy one in hammond ind cracked up three autos by merely stinging the driver of one of the cars the driver walter sohl drove into another car which then crashed into a third machine lie gets buck fever back in the meatless days del halstead licked his chops chaps as he drew a sight on a big buck deer near buckhorn station calif just as he released the safety catch on his rifle he was hit from behind and sent sprawling another buck had 0 o bounded out of a thicket and landed ala the marines in the nick of time halstead not only lost his gun 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 Y found she was sharing her 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 w wife ife found a turtle in their back donback y yard ard they put it in a box on the front ae seat at of their car and started to ta take k e lt it to a nice homey place in the country the turtle confused or just plain ungrateful slipped out of the box crawled up Rie bows leg and bit him good and hard turned turtle and so did the car via a tree chips pay off after that anything must seem dull but the case of f pete bird of Shel shelbyville Shelby byville vUle ky may oe be worth recording when a mere boy bird was chopping a log on a farm when a chip flew up and struck him in the eye bringing a cataract and blindness in 1848 1949 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 ct the sultry pocketbook it belonged to miss jinice janice peterson of cf new york city who traced smoke to t a drawer in her office desk and found a cigarette lighter in her purse bad flicked on and it hardly ever works when you want it to she moaned A boom hit the rural community of plymouth wis when 16 year old robert martli marth snot shot at a sparrow perched on a farm wagon missed the sparrow hit the wagon and set off its 1300 pound load ol of dynamite casualties windows 1 wagon and I 1 sparrow dont we all stanley of east cl iago cago ind entered the dentists office with a toothache and left with a head headache ache As the dentist daentl st i reached cached for or the forceps creeps lightning struck the office building and a hunk 0 of plaster from rom the ceiling conked on oil the head where the novocain reached three year old ernest Ll edemann of 0 chicago tumbled into the chicago river from rom a bridge high above As he hit the water ills his clothing caught on a nail that protruded from the piling and held his head above water until he was rescued close C ic runner n e r up u p f or f all ash lons ns all ta or wa was s A abraham a m W wilson i ls 0 of 0 new e york r it As wilson was lowering a couch from rom a four our story in a warehouse he tripped in the rigging and he and the couch plunged downward he caught up with the couch as they passed the third floor the force orce 0 of the impact wedged the couch against the shaft shad wall where surprised workers found aund wilson curled up c cozily 0 il y uati the another 0 r fish yarn most fantastic anta of 0 all perhaps is the celebrated case of 0 the sneezing 0 0 0 0 13 0 0 salmon james mantakes Manta kep 0 of la grande ore caught the salmon tossed it ft in the rear of 0 his car and started for or home to show the folks As the car chugged alo along ng desert dust blew into the salmons gills and it sneezed yes it did this startled mantakes ile he glanced back saw nothing but a fish and shrugged off the sound 7 another sneeze mantakes whirled around this time to see an angry salmon on the back of 0 the seat glaring balefully at him with b bloodshot lood shot eyes As if 11 that en enough ough a grasshopper chose that moment to come flying in through the window the salmon abandoned mantakes lunged at the grasshopper missed and fell ell back in the lap 0 of the now thoroughly disorganized driver mantakes gave himself over entirely to subduing the salmon the car went crashing off the road the sneezed spitefully once or twice more and succumbed victims of 0 all ages youngest victim of 0 an odd accident in 1946 undoubtedly war wae a baby girl who was shot before she was born her mother mrs arthur arth ur laughton was shot in a hunting accident at winthrop me and the baby was born prematurely a bullet wound in ber her left thigh when most people were desperately trying to find auto tires tire 11 stanley yanick of 0 chicago just stood still on the sidewalk and one came rolling right up tip to him unfortunately tuna tely it had a wheel attached and it flattened him the tire was the wrong size anyway when mrs ralph gilmore of 0 phil adelph adelphia la heard a certain program w Y 10 t 4 coming KI in on her radio she hurried across the room to I 1 turn up the volume tripped CB an a rug and fell suffering minor injuries the program mrs gilmore fell for far A broad broadcast east on home hazards by national safety councel cil |