A DANCER SNEEZED

Te Awamutu Courier, Volume 55, Issue 3938, 11 August 1937, Page 3

A DANCER SNEEZED

and broke his ribs. Swinging his partner around a turn in a fox trot a Newcastle (N.S.W.) youth last week dislocated his left shoulder. Modern dancing has its perils (comments the Sydney Sun) although old-timers with memories of dancing a polka with vim and vigour say it is Central District Ambulance officers vouch for this story: Powder was placed on a city dance floor to make it slippery. While dancing in a waltz, a man got some of the powder into his nose. He sneezed so hard that he fractured his ribs. Ambulance men say that they have treated many persons who have suffered fractures of legs or arms or dislocations through falls while dancing. Among queer accidents that have occurred this year was the case of a Melbourne man who leaned out of a window to watch police on motor cycles chase fugitives. A bullet from a policeman’s gun struck a wall, ricocheted up the wall, and pierced bis chest. WRIST IMPALED. Crossing a city street a man had his wrist impaled on the door handle of a passing ear. Running for a cricket catch at Brighton a youth collided with another player and suffered a fracture of the leg. A country visitor had his leg broken when he was struck by a mechanical hare on a coursing ground. A man collapsed and died on the operating table of a suburban hospital, apparently asphyxiated because he had an unusually long tongue. When a bullet intended for a "bullet proof” woman at a country show went estray, it struck a "fat boy” in an adjoining tent.