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Show Court Displeased With Man Who Climbed Pole CLEVELAND. Legal advice to people-whc-climb - telephone - poles-to-capture-runaway-squirrels: Don't. Such was the advice handed down by the common pleas court here in denying Clarence Keller damages from the Ohio Public Service company. com-pany. Keller gallantly offered to chase a pet squirrel that ran away from its boy owner. The chase led up a telephone pole, the squirrel got tangled tan-gled up in the wires, and Keller got a teeth shattering shock from the resulting short circuit. The court's opinion, legally and officially of-ficially phrased, declared: "The company should not be considered negligent for failure to foresee that an adult person would go squirrel hunting upon its pole, and that the squirrel, alarmed by pursuit, would short-circuit its wire, lawfully installed in-stalled thereon, nor reasonably anticipate an-ticipate such a result" In other words: "Nuts to squirrel-hunter squirrel-hunter Keller," whose petition neglected neg-lected to mention what happened to the squirrel. |