New Britain Herald Newspaper, March 31, 1928, Page 3

HIGHWAY CHUGHLES BLOOW IN GENENT Optimistic Drivers Can Find a Smile Every Mile Neing struck twice by the same omobile was the unusual expel- nee of a local motorist recently. The New Britain man, who is a vrrominent pharmacist, was driving in 4 ueighboring eity at the time, his car being one of a long line of ve- Bicle Directly behind him was a itte old wreck of an auto, and this was responsible for the trouble. I'lie line of traffic was brought to a sudden halt, and the local man ac- cordingiy brought his car to a stand- =1l .But the machine behind was vossessed of nothing which might by any streteh of imagination be called proper braking equipment, ind it crashed unchecked into the Hardware City man's automobile, The pharmacist swallowed his anger temporarily and signalled the other driver to pull over to the curb out of traffie. He drew his own limping niachine to the supposed security of the roadside, but the other, in try. ing to come up behind, again felt its lack of Lrakes and careered into it for the second time within a few seeond doubling the damage in- flicted, ' Humor in Collisions. Although instances llke this do Lot geem particularly ludicrous at the moment, even the vietims involv- i find, upon mature afterthought, 1t there ie considerable humor in them. Humorous occurrences are vonstant uypon the road, although t do not find the space in the iay's news which is acccorded acel- i“nts. 8till, even accidents, barring ose which have fatal results, vsually liave funny sides and it must | e admitted that a touch of fronical or sardonic humor is seen at times nEing about even those terrible seeptions. Tn the milder inatance e comic side is generally appre- 1ated by those not immediately in- | olved, byt on many occaaions it is n by wrecked motorists who =sces @enses of humor, As an example of this, an attor- v in a nearby town was sitting vontentedly in his office and think- ug happily of his new car. His reverie was broken by the entrance ot his son, who explaimed exeitedly: A big truck just scraped the paint off a car and kept right on going.” he attorney chuekled in anticipa- tion of the feclings of the soraped nachine’s owner when he discovered » seratehes, but an instant later a client entored with the heart-break- g words, “Hey, your car has just wen hit by a truck!” And a quick rush to the window verified the fact at the unfortunate fellow at whom e Jawyer had been laughing was bimeelf, ars That Go Sideways, New Britain - machine was 1 in an out-of-town accident s nd the driver of the other car was reested. When the case came to court, there were several other ae- cident cases on the docket. In the rec the Hardware City man was involv- | panion, a highly nervous man, had ed, the.driver of a car-which had | gone white at the appéarance of th, crashed into the side of another put 1 officer and was now fairly shivering Where- < auto had run into his. This was al- | ed at him. saw his co! this case came up the defense was | bad.” and drove on. | scatehing his head, in blended THWARTS SLE T 8 { was seen by the victim even while | occurred when a local motorist suf- | miles. The purchase of a pew inner! Unsolved crimes of & serious na- that a rough patch on the inside ©of past quarter century or so being the { Plowouts in one day wupon another books without clearing up all the de- | UP the weak defense that the other | with agitation. The policeman look- most the same situation as that in- | said, “Gée! He looks bad!" volving the local driver, and when | upon the physician said, again based upon the same claim— | i that a ear which had been hit amid- | [] ships was really the one which had | | delivered the blow. The judge. | zlement and reprimand drawled, *I| Just can’t get used to these cars that Seven Blowouts in 10 Miles, An experience n which the humor uu w H ine!! 0' “Unsolved Mysteries" Often Due | he was submitting to an adverse fate " t Re[flsfll tfl P [ | tered seven blowouts on the same Secute | wheel in rapid succession within ten ! tube failed to stop the series of ex- [ture arc practically unknown in | plosions, and it finally developed New Britain, the exception in, the { the “shoe” was responsible. This Boswgrth murder, but occasionally | same car was also subjected to nine the police are obliged to close their | occasion, but this ngmber was divid- tuils of every case coming to their | ed among the vuur'ure:. ttention during a4 given period. What is perhaps the shortest { “hitch-hike” on record transpired | just eutside the New Britain Boy i Beout *eamp in Portland. when a raveled, and some other cases are on | prospective “bummer” opened a gate :record With incomplete analysis of | to allow the passage of an automo- (all the angles. and-in &ll probability | bile and then asked for a side to' Wil remain uncleared until the end { New Britain. He was at first crest- | of time. | fallen when he learned that the car was going only some 50 feet up the There have been mysteries conneet- ed with murder which were baffling for a time, but were eventually un- One of the most commion reasons for the failure of the police to reach road, but finally he saw the humor the end of their investigations is the ! of the situation, and upon disem- attitude of complainants. Thefts of | barking at the end of the dimiru- money, for instance, have heen re- } thve litt, he smiled broadly and was ported and inquiry commenced at drawatically profuse in his thanks. once with the result that the pros | Once in a while a good-natured peets of an arrest become highly | policeman provides a bright spot in parent, but suddenly the person | & day's travel and helps efface the |Whom the money was tuken calls the | impreasion that all cops are dis- Dolico and asks that the matter be | agreable. Many a traffic policeman dropped. As nobody but the com- | has smiled an “I could have done |Plainani was injured by the theft, that myself,” when a machine has|the police aceede to the request and | stalled at his corner, while at least the case ends. ! one pleasantly shocked a motorist Frequently the who was uncertain as to whether the | reach and ma officer's motion to go was meant for |hesitate to do so I the evi- him or not. When the car slowly 'dence is only circumstantial and per. drew abreast of him, the policeman sons who are known to be in a posi =aid, “If T had been driving that [tion to help clinch the case by a car, I'd have becn way up the street | single word keep silent, forestalling by now.” And he was obeyed justice, while the authorifies are promptly and more respectfully than ' forced to go about their task in some [ 1f he had snarled a reprimand. other way, sometimes arriving at an | Surprise for Vermont Copper. arrest and convietion and sometimes | A Connecticut driver was stopped meeting only failure. by a motoreycle policeman in a ferviews with the holders of the in | small Vermont town. When ashed |formation have heen known to fail if he hadn’t known that he was ex- |and time after time the police have ceeding the speed limit, he replied |secn offenders walk the in the negative and produced a copy | perfect freedom, who, but for shicld- | of the Connecticut motor vehicle |ing friends, might be in jail. lawa to show that he was used to! According to the polic driving under more lenient rules instances quite well esta than were fn force in Vermont. which thieves have made When he found there was no speed a day or two after the Dolice ar restit trail toware limit in this state, the Vermont of- them became too warm for their ticer told the driver to move along, comfort. Beyvond all doubt. nothini | but not before he had had a sudden |but tha activity of the thorities enlightenment and had exclaimed, brought about the return of the “So that's why I've worn out threc |stolen artieles, yet the departme { motercyelea chasing you Connecticut ' records will always show that the ! fellovs: in the last year!” rases were nover, closed. Year in Bound for a theater in Hartford, ~nd vear out. the police, rspecially a physiclan in a nelghboring town | the detective department, are eon- |and a fellow-townsman were zoom. . fronted with these sitnations, devot ing their time and offorts ov periods, and coming hack handed through no fault own. r lon empty- of theiy { in& threugh Farmington at a high | speed when they were suddenly | brought to a halt by a state polic man. 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