SWALLOWED KEY OF BUS
Schoolboy’s Jest Came True (New Zealand Press Association) NAPIER, July 17. A 17-year-old boy was attending school this week with something more than his breakfast inside him. The “something more” is the ignition key of a Railways Road Services bus. Here, briefly, is the story: A party of boys from the Napier Boys’ High School were returning home to the TaradaleGreenmeadows district by bus on Wednesday afternoon. When the driver got out of the vehicle at Greenmeadows the boys took the key and began tossing it from one to another. It landed in the hands of David Hill, of Wharerangi road. Greenmeadows.
The bus driver made a grab for it, and David tossed the key in the air, saying laughingly, “Just for a joke I’ll swallow it.”
And that is just what he did do —by accident
The driver started the bus with a screwdriver, and advised David to get home as fast as possible. Later, a doctor advised the boy to adopt a “wait and see” policy, as he appeared to be suffering qo ill-effects. So at school today David was still waiting. He doesn’t seem to be unduly perturbed.
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Press, Volume XCVIII, Issue 28950, 18 July 1959, Page 14
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