RANDOM REMINDER

Press, Volume CXV, Issue 33753, 28 January 1975, Page 19

RANDOM REMINDER

TIT FOR TAT

Television has made us all aw'are that it is wise, on being shown to a bedroom in a foreign hotel, to avoid criticising the host country until all hidden microphones have been located and dismantled or muffled. It is even as well to check the flowers on the dining table in such places, in case comments on the first course are relayed to the chief cook, whereupon some later course could prove fatal.

But the following story reveals that even in New Zealand those whose conversation is of an offensive nature are liable to receive instant punishment, with no right of appeal. Walls have ears, apparently, some a little more delicate than others. A certain small town garage employs a man who is a kindly and considerate person, but the possessor of a quick temper.

He was changing » truck tyre, bashing away with the rubber hammer they use on such occasions. when the hammer inconsiderately hit a finger. He swore very rapidly, very rudely, then with all his might flung the stupid hammer at the wall. The offended wall with equal ferocity bounced that hammer straight back, hitting him on the head and knocking him out.