QUEER STREET ACCIDENT

Otago Daily Times, Issue 23648, 4 November 1938, Page 13

QUEER STREET ACCIDENT

SEQUEL TO SLIP AND FALL UMBRELLA RIB THROUGH NOSE (From Our Own Correspondent) SYDNEY, Oct. 26. An elderly Sydney man was the victim this week of an accident which, in his own words, “ wouldn’t happen again in 1000 years.” He was wahting along a city street when he slipped on the rain-drenched pavement and fell. One of the ribs of an umbrella carried by a woman standing at the kerb pierced his nose. ‘“I stood up feeling like a Solomon Islander, with the umbrella dangling from- my nose,” he said. “ I tried to pull it out, but could not, so wanted to walk to the hospital with it as it was. A constable stopped me, and a man came from a shop and cut off the rib with a pair of pliers. An ambulance then took me to Sydney Hospital. ‘“I told them to give the lady back her umbrella, but they said she wouldn’t have it. At the hospital about 100 people came to look at me. A doctor said the rib could easily have penetrated my brain. I don’t think anyone else can say they have had their nose pierced by an umbrella rib.”