The Most Unsuccessful Rubber Man
In August 1978, Janos the Rubber Man was part of a
show at Southend in England. People watched him high
above them with his legs uncomfortably behind his head.
Slowly he came down until he was touching the ground.
Then he usually turned over a few times like a ball,
before standing up. The children loved it.
But one time he just sat there. ‘I couldn’t move,’ he
explained later.
One of the showmen put Janos in the back of his car
and took him to hospital. Doctors
took thirty minutes to
straighten the Rubber Man and ordered him to lie still for
a week.
The Most Unsuccessful Lunch Hour
One day in June 1978 Mr Stanley Hird was looking
forward to working during his lunch hour because he had
a lot of work to do. At one o’clock
his wool factory
outside the town of Bradford was empty and he was
hoping to work better in the quiet building.
At ten past one a
cow
fell through the roof. The factory
was next to a field and the cow was able to climb on to
the roof from there. For thirty seconds both of them did
nothing. But then the cow
was angry because this was
her lunch hour, too. She began to move towards Mr Hird,
looking at him in a very unfriendly way with her head
down. This continued for some minutes while Mr Hird
carefully moved towards the door
and the cow knocked
boxes of wool across the floor. But then the cow, whose
name was Rosie, stopped
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to eat some green wool and Mr
Hird escaped from the
building. Outside, he met a farmer who was looking for a
young cow. The police came and also the firemen, who
needed a special lifting machine to get the animal out.
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