HUMAN MASCOT ON BONNET OF CAR.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 18057, 18 January 1927, Page 4

HUMAN MASCOT ON BONNET OF CAR.

MAN GETS DAMAGES AFTER BRIDAL “ RAG.” (Special to the “ Star.”) LONDON, November 25. A "wedding guest who improvised a jazz band and hung "like a mascot” on the bonnet of the bridal couple’s car. was awarded £IOO damages at Windsor County Court to-day Tn an action against the bridegroom. The plaintiff was David Welsh, an accountant, and the defendant Alan Leslie Pound, solicitor, of Sgham. It was stated that during the wedding reception at a Wraysbury bungalow, “a jazz band” was formed of tin trays and butter-pats, and when ■ the bride and bridegroom started off on s their honeymoon Mr Welsh and Miss j Sanders, another guest, walked in front ( of the car banging the tin trays. OX TIIE RADIATOR. Welsh stated that as the car accelerated it Caught him in the back. He was unable to keep up with the car, so he rested on the starting handle and hung on to the lamps. After, going twenty or thirty yards he fell off. turning a somersault in front of the car. The vehicle had to be lifted to extricate him. He had a dislocated hip and collar-bone. He denied that he went on banging the tray while attached to the car. Miss Norah Sanders, of Staines, said she also walked in front of the car, and as it accelerated she got nervous and ran to one side. Judge Randolph: 'You had to accelerate. Pound's evidence was that Welsh came to the centre of the car and disappeared, except his head and shoulders were showing. He was like a mascot, and went on beating the tray. lie fell off as witness was about to stop the car. If he had stopped before he might have been told that I he was not “a sport.” • - Judge Francis said that anyone with any sense "who saw a man in the dark \ perched on his radiator would have stopped. “If you choose to carry on a rag,” said the judge, ‘‘by conveying a man on a bumpy road 100 yards on the radiator you have the pleasure of paying for it.” Judgment was given for Welsh with costs.