The Man Who Never Thinks.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVII, Issue 21, 22 May 1912, Page 6

The Man Who Never Thinks.

In the February “Pearson's Magazine” there appears an article entitled "The Perils of Thoughtlessness,” which ought to startle the most careless into realising his misdeeds. "Every day six people meet their death owing to accidents caused by somebody's carelessness. In other words, the idot who ’never thinks is accountable for nearly two thousand deaths annually. How much suffering and inconvenience, from minor accidents, can be traced to the same cause it is impossible to estimate. . "A fool with a loaded gun is a dangerous pei-son. A fool with a gun wlfieh he supposes io be unloaded is only a few degrees less dangerous. Cases are continually occurring where some idiot points an ‘unloaded’ weapon at somebody, pulls the trigger and finds, too late, he has inflicted a ghastly, often a fatal, w blind. The would-be humorist who dresses up as a ghost, and tries to frighten nervous people, is another dangerous individual. His efforts are often so successful that many victims have been rendered insane, and some even scared to death, by this particular form of thoughtless jest. His actions are the more to be condemned as his victims are usually women and children. “The person who indulges in the dangerous habit of alighting from a moving train is a fruitful cause of r.ccidents. Over fifty deaths in one year resulted from falls from trains. Nothing short of a public nuisance is the thoughtless person who scatters orange peel or banana skin on the jsvvement. and he should be treated very drastically. Countless accidents can be traced to this practice. Over fifteen hundred persons were killed in one year by falls of various kinds. “The clumsy individual who blunders against a lighted lamp and brings the whole thing crashing to the floor gives tit yet another instance of criminal eare-lee-ness. There were forty-two deaths last year caused directly from burns r<«nMing from lamp accidents.