Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1920 — IN ODD MISHAPS [ARTICLE]

IN ODD MISHAPS

Many and Varied Accidents Bewail Humanity. Files of Insurance Oompanlee Are of Cases Where Injuries Have Been the Result of Most Trivial HappeningsAccident Insurance, or Insurance which pays benefits In case of temporary disability, is carried by a great many people. The claim agent whose business It is to investigate reported injuries often meets with amusing incidents. Thg following were furnished by an agent of a large insurance company: “SoriTe captive rattlesnakes jin a restaurant escaped from a box in which they were confined and sc frightened one of the patrons that* in his haste to get out he fell in front of me, and in getting up, came up un derneath me, tossing me over his head.” “I was In bed and dreamed that a burglar was bending over. me. I struck at him so hard that I was thrown on the floor with arm extended and broke my collarbone.” “Assisting a_ lady who had an umbrella under her arm, to board a car, the point of the umbrella was thrust into my left eye.” “I placed an electric fan beside my bed on a hot night. While asleep I stuck my foot in It.” “In a playful mood I kicked at my wife while barefooted and accidentally struck her on the knee, thereby spraining the big toe of left foot.” “My arm encircled the neck of a young lady. I suddenly withdrew it and the thumb of my left hand came in contact with a brooch, penetrating . the thumb almost to the bone.” “My wife was curling her hair. I ran against her and the hair curler struck my eye.” “I was embraced by a friend who playfully said that, he could make me cry—fractured my rib.” “On a private yacht, I had just had a highball, got up, the boat gave a lurch and I sat down on the glass.” “Looking for a leak in a natural gas pipe *wlth a lighted match explosion followed.” ’ “I missed my t£ain and while Walking off the country road I fell over a cow lylngxln the road. As. I fell the cow got up, striking me and also stuping on my foot.” “Sitting In a chair in a barber shop ‘ and billiard parlor, a ball from a pool table nearby struck me on the nose, breaking nose and injuring one eye.” “I had been talking with another man, and as I started to walk along didn’t notice a woman had pushed a baby carriage directly in front of .me —fell over it.” “I was going down the walk In front ot my house when an automobile wheel which had come off two blocks away rolled down the hill arid struck me, fracturing both bones of the right leg” “I was riding In an automobile when it struck a hole in the rbad, causing my teeth to come together with such force that the lower jaw was fractured." “I was looking for burglars, and was accidentally mistaken by one of my neighbors for the man we were look Ing for, and he shot me In the arm.”