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USIC
Embarrassing,
Isn't It?
by Jack Ryan
Art by Ken Kenniston
M
ichigan's secretary of state notified Kenneth Flietstra that
unless he reported details of a recent accident he
would lose his driver's license, then learned Kenneth
was a six-year-old who had crashed his tricycle
into the side of a parked truck.
Patrolman Leroy Greene was directing traffic in Augusta,
Me., when somebody swiped his extra pair of pants and a
shirt from a nearby control box.
Bill Bentley left his filling station near Temple, Okla., to
bring a can of gasoline to a motorist who had run out
of fuel. Bill never made it back ran out of gas.
Police officers in Monroe, Mich., stored confiscated moon
shine in a jailhouse as evidence against a bootlegger, but
abandoned their case when prisoners siphoned away all
the evidence during the night.
On a bright Summer day, Postmaster Frank Sweeney of
Bay City, Mich., who the previous Winter had campaigned
strenuously for early mailing of Christmas cards, reached
in his desk and found the Yuletide greetings his
wife had asked him to mail six months before.
When repairmen presented the manager of a Philadelphia
cafe with a sizable bill, he jokingly relayed a message1 to
the owner saying, "There are two bandits here, and
they want money." Within minutes, the cafe was
surrounded and a dozen officers entered with drawn guns,
looking for the holdup men reported by the
literal-minded owner.
A cement factory in Olavarria, Argentina, was forced to
curtail operations when hundreds of its employees became
ill at a luncheon celebrating the end of a year without
an accident.
Fireman Leslie Long, giving a fire-fighting demonstration
in Nottingham, England, was forced to dive into a water
tank when spectators quietly watched his pants catch
fire, thinking it was part of the act.
An unmarked state police car near Holland, Mich., was in
hot pursuit of a speeder when a sheriff's squad started
chasing it. Both police cars were curbed by a municipal
police unit while the speeder got away.
W. W. Waldrop, general manager of the Virginia Electric
and Power Co., had just finished a speech on "My Most
Embarrassing Moment" when the electric power in
the Auditorium failed.
V M CORPORATION INTON HARROR. MICHIGAN
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Family Weekly, January 19. I35S