Local & General

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 15, Issue 82, 14 August 1950, Page 4

Local & General

Suspension

String is a cheap but unsatisfactory substitute for a belt, as an Aucklander wearing one found to his discomfort when trying on a sports coat in a large store. The coat ' fitted perfectly across the shoulders, but the salesman tugged at the lower seam to improve the “sit.” By accident he also tugged rather violently at the customer’s trousers, the string gave way and the young man was left standing in only the sports coat.

Yanked ! To be trapped in a household tank was the ignominous fate of a Wanganui man who sought to clean one out by getting inside and scouring it. Worming through a small manhole in the top was a comparatively easy way to enter the tank, but ffie man found climbing out a different matter. After several vain attempts to hoist himself through the hole, he .gave up and shouted for help. Unfortunately, his wife had cho9en that moment to absent herself from the immediate vicinity of the tank, and it was a neighbour who answered the victim’s call. What he said on seeing the man’s predicament is not recorded, but some rough and ready surgery on the top of the tank with a pair of tinsnips soon ended the man’s imprisonment. The escapee’s only comment was: “Fm mighty glad it wasn’t one of -those square iron tanks.”