SHOT BY A NAIL
NEW STREET TERROR. An extraordinary street accident was recently described by a correspondent of a London paper, who -writes:— "I was shot in the heel—not by a. bullet, but by a nail! While walking in the Strand early in the afternoon I received what I thought to be a vigorous kick in the heel. I swung round, but there was no clumsy fellow near, and, thinking no more of the matter, I walked half a mile to my office. •'When I reached home, about 8 in the evening, my heel muscles were and sore, and on examining my boot I was amazed to find a nail firmly embedded in the heel. It had pierced the double leather and penetrated my foot. "I conclude that the nail, lying in the roadway, was hit by the wheel of a passing motor vehicle and fired at mc as from a gun."
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Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 86, 13 April 1926, Page 17
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